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[-] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 57 points 6 months ago

My Laptop will be 15 years old this year.

It was running Vista when I bought it, then upgraded to Win 7, and now runs whatever flavor of Linux I feel like installing.

Battery is shot. Screen connection is iffy, but works if you wiggle it. Several keys stopped working after I accidentally threw up on it, but I can use an onscreen keyboard for those.

Still runs fine. She's a trooper.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 36 points 6 months ago

I'm not one to kink shame, but anyone who throws up on a laptop on purpose needs help.

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

I'm guessing alcohol. I had a friend throw up on a 20 year old laptop and that finally killed it.

[-] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

You guessed correctly.

I was pulling an all-nighter reading fan fiction serials while drinking Kraken mixed with Orange Juice and had also eaten a whole frozen pizza around midnight. I was not ok. The incident happened around 3am.

First time I'd ever vomited while drunk. I know my limits better now.

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 55 points 6 months ago

Next month is my desktops CPU model's 10th birthmonth. Still my default computer.

[-] Glowstick@lemmy.world 57 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Absolutely, a ten year old computer today is still capable of doing pretty much everything that most people use computers for. It's not like the old days when every few years a new tier of computer would come out that made older devices no longer capable of doing what people wanted.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 months ago

“By the time you see it on the shelf, it’s already obsolete“

I ‘member

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[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

I was still running a Q6600 (a 2.4 gHz quad core from 2007) until a few years ago. It ran most things acceptably for its entire life - it wasn't until around the time of PS4 Pro/Xbox Whatever ports that it could no longer keep up, and even that was largely due to the other components I was restricted to on such an old motherboard.

That thing was also a tank. The CPU cooler was stock and the thermal paste had degraded and separated to the point it idled at 65c, but I never had a single hardware fault in nearly fifteen years of running it. I kind of miss it.

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[-] thejml@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

One hit 12 before I retired it… and now it’s a network file and web server.

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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

You feel sorry for ze little old computer. Zis is because you crazy. It is just a machine; it has no feelings.

It is working just as well as it was 10 years ago and capable of all the same things now as it was back then. Nothing has changed except your expectations of it. That's right, there's nothing wrong with it -- in reality, you're the problem.

You monster.

[-] Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk 42 points 6 months ago

Not really. As it’s been updated over the years with new features the OS has heavier usage on the hardware. Also if it’s still got a hard drive in there chances are it’s dying after 10 years

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Running an OS significantly newer than original on a computer gets filed under "expectations." Nobody bitches their Amiga can't run Windows 98, either. If it is 10 years old, its original OS was Windows 8, updates for which ended in 2016 (or last year, for Windows 8.1). No new bloat after that!

But even so, unless the computer in question is a netbook or something it'll be fine. For reference, I have a ThinkPad laptop that was manufactured in 2012 and I still use it daily. It runs Windows 10 just fine. Updates and all. The latest Corel suite, modern browsers, video editing, no problem. PC performance reached a bit of plateau coincidentally... about 10 years ago.

The MTBF of even a middling consumer hard drive is, if we are being extremely uncharitable, 300,000 hours. That's 32 and a quarter years of continuous usage and there are vintage hard drives in circulation in perfect working order that are much, much older than that. The main thing this laptop is going to need help with is its battery, which probably is degraded a bit by now.

[-] technohacker@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

I need a moment to process the fact that Windows 8 was 10 years ago

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Well actually, electronics age just like the rest of us, every electron that passes through wears down the component just a little more creating just a little more resistance with each passing use. So in effect the 10 year old laptop does have something resembling getting harder and harder to wake up

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Did you just make that up on the spot?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

The name to google is "electromigration".

It's absolutely not what makes you old computer slow (neither are bad capacitors). But it may be what makes it stop working.

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[-] DaGeek247@fedia.io 9 points 6 months ago

Assuming that the software updates haven't slowed it down and that it's been kept clean of dust (which also causes it to throttle itself to avoid overheating).

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

It is working just as well as it was 10 years ago

Not if it's running Windows.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago

Hello. Why are you French? Thank you!

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[-] sandayle@lemmy.ml 36 points 6 months ago

my 13 years old laptop works good as server. Sometimes he fell asleep when I watch a movie with Jellyfin but it's okey.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I have a 5-year old and a 15-year old laptop downstairs acting as servers, and they are runnjng GREAT.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My 2012 desktop PC died the other day.

I took out all her parts and determined that the fault was with the power supply and with a wonky pci shield on the wifi card. Replaced the psu and straighten the shield with pliers, reapply thermal compound for fun, and bam, shes back.

Its an i73770k lga1155 socket, with 16g DDR3 RAM. They dont make lga1155 sockets anymore, or DDR3 ram, so I would have been out $1600 to replace the CPU, motherboard, and RAM.

But now, she might have another 5 years in her yet. Im determined to keep her around until she's old enough to vote at least.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

My laptop will be old enough to vote next year

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[-] knolord@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

At least for me, both my laptop (daily driver) and desktop would be considered old by this comic (2014 and 2017 respectively). Neither of them are struggling with the tasks I mostly use them for (writing notes, programming, light gaming on my desktop).

The only things they are struggling at, are modern video codecs and the ABSOLUTELY BLOATED shitshow that is today's Internet experience.

[-] Glowstick@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

If you use an ad blocker it'll speed up your web performance dramatically

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

to be fair, everything struggles with software decoding on modern HEVC codecs (yes i realize HEVC is technically H265 but that's a stupid fucking name, and i refuse to use HEVC and AVC as anything other than generics for the class of codec they're in because that's the only thing that makes sense)

And the internet, so like. None of this is "new"

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

Windows Laptop: "Sure, no problem, just let me install all these updates first. Why don't you go ahead and create a Microsoft account?"

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 months ago

look at the laptop, he's so happy.

Just enjoying the tunes, and the light workload, content as can be.

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 months ago

At least he looks like he's enjoying making music =)

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[-] ArenCoco@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

With an SSD and enough RAM, I think old machines are more than capable for most basic task

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Hell, I was gaming on a PC from 2013 all the way into 2022 (i5-4670K, 16GB DDR3 1600, and a 770, later upgraded to a 1070). My CPU stopped meeting the minimum requirement for games around 2018-2019, but it was enough to maintain 60 FPS @ 1080p in all but the most demanding titles. If a pile a money didn't fall in my lap, I'd still be gaming on it today. But now that I've experienced 4K 120Hz gaming in HDR with Ray Tracing and DLSS, I could never go back. It was worth building a new PC for HDR and DLSS alone.

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[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Ten year old laptop is 2013 (this post seems to be from 2023). That's really not old at all. I use a 17 year old machine and it works great for basic tasks.

[-] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

17? As in 2007? What are the specs on that thing? You running a lightweight linux distro on it? Surely you have an SSD in there and have upgraded the ram.

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[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 20 points 6 months ago

Thinkpad X230 of my dad still going strong with xfce.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

I have a 14 year old laptop that runs like a top with debian 12 on it.

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[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago

My Mac mini serving as a movie server for nine years after retirement. If the movie starts stuttering back out and go back in, works every time.

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 months ago

Pfft, I make music with my ten year old laptop.

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[-] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I recently resurrected an old desktop computer (linux is great for ding this) I had built in 2009. I upgraded the ram to ~~8Gb~~ 16Gb, replaced the broken graphics card and installed Gnu Guix using the system crafters install guide. I'm not doing any hardcore gaming so it does everything I need it to do. I have a raid store, jellyfin server, and samba share.

[-] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

My notebook is 8 years old. It was a gaming beast when I got it, now it's not great on most modern releases(1060). It still works really good to be honest, I just stopped using once I got a good desktop computer.

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[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

My Thinkpad would laugh at this

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[-] Persen@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To me, it looks sad and in pain and later happy, but still in pain.

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[-] Persen@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
  • If it isn't hp, it can work for 20 years, but with hp laptops, you are lucky if it lasts for 8.
  • Btw, it works for phones too. I got my dad's redmi 4x from 2017 a month ago. It works suprisingly ok. I am planning to flash lineageos without gapps on it, to not have to use android 7. It should work for another couple of years.
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[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

For MacBooks, 10 years is barely broken in. I’ve had MacBook Airs as daily drivers for well over 10 years.

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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I have an old lightweight laptop that I use for youtube videos from time to time.

Page loads take 3-10 seconds. Video decoding, once it gets going, is great due to dedicated MPEG hardware. But the site itself - well, old man gets there eventually.

Edit: already stripped overhead to the bone by running Bodhi Linux. I may try FF over Chromium in case there's more performance to be had. But the 2GB RAM footprint is really pushing it these days.

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[-] thehatfox@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I have a ThinkPad X220 that recently turned 13, with SSD and RAM upgrades, basic maintenance, and Linux it’s still running great for plenty of tasks.

Plus it’s so well built I could probably stick it in a plate carrier and use it as body armour. Doesn’t seem to matter how much it gets dropped or dropped onto, ol’ Thinky keeps on chugging.

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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I remember one of my first machines, a 486DX50 I think, really had a hard time playing mp3 files. But it hasn't been an issue for anything that came later.

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