Having finished musing on NV's keynotes and remembering the grief i had to try get my other half's lappy fixed (it had the wonderful self cooking gpu of doom in it. Ta NV) I'm sat here with an odd thought.
How old is the oldest laptop you have and does it still work?
Right now I'm typing away on an old IBM T20 from 2000. Its got XP and 256mb and a 40gb drive. The original 12gb hosts my Ubuntu install. I swap em as required.
For most of my forum crusing and email its perfect. It suffers on Youtube and MKV films kill it. (might be able to fix with 512mb of ram instead of the 256mb)
So... Given this one is 9yrs old and still ticking. How many of you have similar stories about newer generation laptops, or are we generation disposible now? 2yrs and its in the bin?
This post brought to u by latenight musings and a memory of all the pc's i saw at the dump recently when i was taking the recycling down. Some almost new ones in the skip... and no they wouldnt let me take em home, nor would her indoors either... She's only just got me to get rid of the others