How old is your laptop?

[izzyboy]

All electronic items have a decent age wear and eventually need to be replaced. how old is the average laptop worth taking?
My laptop is 6 years old

[revelations]

Depends on how much work you are doing with it. A daily use laptop (thats mobile) will not last 6 years - or at least I have yet to see one.

[msommers]

My laptop I bought refurbished from Laptop Depot is still running and probably 8 years old lol. An HP no less

[Tomaz]

Mine is an ASUS. Not great battery life so I use it more as a desktop now. Lasted 3 years now. The on-board video card is useless and stalls out all the time watching movies, so i may upgreade sooner rather than later. It served its purpose just fine though.

[GTS4tw]

Originally posted by izzyboy
how old is the average laptop worth taking?

You planning on stealing some?

Whats up with all the bot accounts lately?

[BigMass]

6 year old alienware. Still plays every game on high settings without any issue. Thing is a battle tank

Originally posted by GTS4tw

Whats up with all the bot accounts lately?

probably, but not a bad topic regardless :P

[J.M.]

1 year old Asus. Previous laptop was an Acer which lasted around 5 or 6 years surprisingly

[FixedGear]

Originally posted by revelations
Depends on how much work you are doing with it. A daily use laptop (thats mobile) will not last 6 years - or at least I have yet to see one.

I've got a fully spec'd, 5 year old Lenovo T400 that I carry to and from work every day (on a bike), and which is used for computationally-intensive data analysis. Still runs like brand new. I just replaced the thermal paste on the processor heat sink, upgraded to a SSD, and maxed out 8 GB of ram. Absolutely zero signs that this thing is 5 years old, I fully expect it to keep running until I decide to buy another one in a few years.

[Tik-Tok]

Wierd. I just mentioned this in another thread before I even saw this one, lol.

MSi wind u100, 5 years old, taken some abuse, and is my garage station.

[revelations]

Originally posted by FixedGear


I've got a fully spec'd, 5 year old Lenovo T400 that I carry to and from work every day (on a bike), and which is used for computationally-intensive data analysis. Still runs like brand new. I just replaced the thermal paste on the processor heat sink, upgraded to a SSD, and maxed out 8 GB of ram. Absolutely zero signs that this thing is 5 years old, I fully expect it to keep running until I decide to buy another one in a few years.

Ah so youre like me and actually take care of your machines .... upgrading your components doesent count

I should say, most average users will drop, break or otherwise slow their laptops down with bloatware or bugs long before their machine reaches 6 years.

At one point I had a 10 year old Toshiba laptop that required Speedfan to be running all the time otherwise the CPU would overheat as the BIOS wasnt doing its job with cooling and Toshiba didnt bother to update. Then I switched to an old IBM machine that had a loose connection inside and would turnoff immediately if the screen was touched. Worked fine on a desk though.

Now I have an ASUS gaming laptop thats going to last me 5 years.

[Kardon]

I had a macbook pro last me about 5 years before the logic/mother board died, considering it was a mbp 4,1 it's likely that the nvidia gpu is what actually let it down. Up until then it was daily use laptop with the only real modification being added ram and a newer hdd installed.

[dj_rice]

I think mines around 5-6 years old. Its a HP. I'm surprised its lasted this long. I've dropped it tons, the fan hardly works so the laptop gets super hot sometimes. Its having issues where sometimes after it turned on from a sleep/hibernation mode, the delete key and H key don't work for a good 20 mins lol.

Who says HP isn't reliable lol.

[FixedGear]

^overheating and non-working keys = reliable? Last thing I need is for my laptop to overheat and shut down in the middle of a long computation... Actually, I can run prime95 forever on my 5 year old t400

[Zero102]

My daily driver computer is a 2 year old Acer aspire laptop. Bought boxing day 2011, slapped in an OCZ Vertex 3 SSD and traded the french keyboard for an english only one. Still goes 5-7 hours on battery and we haven't had any issues with it at all.

Before this I had a ~2006 Core 2 Duo Dell Laptop that I used every day until Feb 2012.

[btimbit]

Use my desktop mostly now, but my laptop is a 2 year old Dell. So far so good, and I really do not take care of it.

My previous laptop was an HP that a babied, and it lasted just over a year before it started to have overheating issues and eventually crapped out completely.

[Idiot Stick]

My laptop is barely a year old. Its an Asus.

Before that had a lenovo T61p that I bought used st 3 years old, and kept it for 2 years until the on board video died.

I may or may not have overheated it playing Diablo 3 though. Ha

[zieg]

Ugh, somehow I manage to collect laptops. I have a couple 3-400 mhz Pentium machines that I use for playing old dos games, a p4 1.6ghz that makes an excellent doorstop, another with about the same specs for things like robotics work or taking it somewhere it could get damaged, one 2010 ish model which won't boot and I haven't bothered spending more than 20 minutes trying to fix..... and then finally one that's fairly new that came free to me with a smashed screen. My wife took that one the moment I replaced the screen and I haven't seen it since, lol. Oh, and my work laptop if it counts, a new lenovo something or another. Just got it...

[Ashers]

For daily use I have a one year old Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (nothing wrong, except part of the metal "Lenovo" logo came off... in my finger) and a five year old Unibody MacBook Pro 15" (I got it the week they were released in 2008, all that's happened so far is that the rear rubber foot melted and fell off and the original MagSafe connector caught fire after 2 years).

My previous Windows machine was a Asus U36SD, it lasted one year before it fell apart in a xray machine in Frankfurt Airport.

I also have a ~1997 Thinkpad 760E with Windows 98. Still runs like new, and has a great keyboard!

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

MacBook, almost 5 years old now, it's a piece of junk.

[brandon]

6 month's, macbook air