How Long Will My Laptop Last?

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(09-08-2017, 05:12 PM)kdgjr Wrote: I had my last one for 12 years...did what I needed it to do...till i bought my daughters new ones and took their old ones for me.

They were bitching about how slow they were...to me, their old ones were state of the art (only like 3 years old)

I just need it to play my presentation and it has shown no signs of anything yet, and I don't have a problem with it being slow or anything, so that does give me a bit of reassurance.

(09-08-2017, 05:16 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Its like a car. It will run until the first component craps out on you. And at this point, that can be tomorrow or next year or next few years. No way of knowing though or guessing.

Luckily though you can get a replacement laptop for that purpose really cheap, smaller, and more powerful.

That's what I'm scared of because I've been making small edits to my presentation and I like it the way it is, and not to mention that I have different versions for different events that people have requested, so I'm just scared to lose them.

(09-08-2017, 05:21 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: It will last as long as the hardware holds up.

CPUs can have as many problems as cars lol 


Now if you got some new software for creating your presentation your PC is probly obsolete in terms of efficiently running a newer program that's resource intensive.


But if its doing what you need now  it should continue to do so until your needs change.   Your Operating system gets corrupted.  Or you psychically damage it ( drop it into a pool or tub for instance lol) 

It's definitely doing what I need it to and I see no reason that I'll ever need to change it, but the dropping it might be a problem because crippled people can't have nice shit lol.

(09-08-2017, 05:47 PM)Benton Wrote: Probably the laptop will last longer than the software you run on it.

I have a 11 or so year old Gateway that still works, but the battery won't hold a charge and it has some issues with running new programs. Old video cards and such. Any more, I tell people to go to Walmart or find a Lenovo online for under $275. It will last (most likely) longer than the version of Windows on it and the drivers that are supported. About the same with a Mac. The hardware will get you a decade, but Apple updates its products into extinction after 4-5 years. I've got a 2008ish MacBook (think it is, the metal one) from work that I gave my daughter. It's basically a giant DVD player/calculator as it can't even get online any more.

I group texted my family and I think that I'm going to get a spare for a few hundred just in case anything were to ever go wrong, but the software's no problem because it runs my presentation and everything perfectly fine.  

Although sometimes my laptop won't connect to a projector at a school (it runs through other things sometimes) and I have to email a smaller version of my presentation and it's not always compatible because they'll have a newer version of PowerPoint.

THANKS EVERYONE!