How old is your computer/laptop?
By Catkin
@Catkin (480)
United States
May 4, 2010 2:31pm CST
I'm actually very curious to know what your responses to this question will be. With computers getter smaller, faster, and "better" every couple of months, let alone every year, it's easy to just go out and buy a new one if you've got the money. I've been working on the same PC for 6 years now, and I 'm sure it's still got at least another couple years of life in it. My 80GB hard drive seems puny compared to what most computers are equipped with today, but I recently got around that by purchasing an external hard drive with over three times that amount of space, so I'm set!
How long have you had your computer or laptop? Have there been any problems with it while you've had it? Within the first week of purchasing my computer, the videocard malfunctioned in some way and I had to send it to the manufacturer for repair, but that's the worst that has happened. Aside from little hiccups of spyware and malware which are mostly unrelated to the state of the PC itself, I've been quite happy and hope to be for a while longer. :)
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13 responses
@kharlav (1669)
• Philippines
5 May 10
My monitor is new, it just months old, while my cpu is very old, about 8 years old. I so much hate my pc because it is very slow and I cant download and watch movies in my pc like others do. My father don't want to buy another cpu even if it is already dying and hardly working. It is just so slow and I get so stressed out working in my pc.grr.
@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
5 May 10
I have 2 working desktops in my house. The one my husband uses is maybe 9 years old??? The one I work on is about 5 years old. I am getting a refurbished laptop this week though! I can't wait!
@Dumpertaker (1187)
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5 May 10
My laptop is almost 4 years old, but the netbook I'm using now is almost 6 months old.
I also have a PC that I sometimes use that is almost 7 years old!!
@cerkeevans (134)
• China
5 May 10
3YEARS the old one ,,, 1year the new one ,, I like new things and i often use the new one cause it's more handy and comfortable
@1023306258 (13)
• China
5 May 10
HAHA...My PC is quite new.It's only 6 months old.Since its operating system is quite new(windows7),some softwares are not compatible,it really brings me many troubles.But generally I'm quite satisfied with it.
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
5 May 10
my desktop computer that i am using in the office is just about 8 months old. very new at our office has budget for purchasing computers yearly. actually, i've got about 3 computers in the span of one year or 18 months. the old ones were distributed to the other workers. with the kind of work that i have, the office gives me priority when it comes to computers.
my own personal laptop comes a little later. i just got this about six months ago. but actually, this is already eight months old. one friend bought this laptop and after 2 months or maybe 3, she pawned it to me. after a month, she told me she will just let me pay for it, if i want, for the price less than the original price she purchased it.
@blue_thr3e (403)
• Philippines
5 May 10
my laptop's a year and few months old. if the time from its first owner is included, that would total to 4 years. it had been asleep though for 6 months in my possession. i broke the adapter. hahahah... but now, it's working fine. our desktop is 3 or 4 years old too.
@zisnarf_miranda (62)
• Philippines
5 May 10
we had this laptop for almost a year now and still we haven't had any problems with this one except for the battery. I hope we get to bring this one before the warranty is over.
@maikeruk (405)
• Germany
5 May 10
well I change computer every 6 months but laptops I usually wait for 2 years, the problem with laptops is that is not common that we can make upgrade to them beside a simple memory increase or another hard drive. so the investment is way expensive with laptops
