what is more economical keep it till it dies or upgrade

[danny_isr]

I don’t have any plans yet for my thinkpad , it’s way too new
But was curios what you guys do with them, keep them till they are too slow or die.
Or replace them when you can still get good price on it and upgrade all the time.

thanks Danny

[wolfman]

I used to do option #2 with all my pc's - upgraded 3x in one year circa 1996 (486 dx2 50 -> cyrix PR166 -> Pentium 166 mmx BTW - the cyrix was TRASH). But alas, I am now married and looking more and more like option #1 is in my future.

[K. Eng]

Just a friendly reminder, the T series forum is not for General questions

[a31pguy]

most financial sense is to trade in when the price drops too low. what is true of cars is true of laptops.

However, it entirely depends on how much of a pain it is to migrate. I personally don't have the time to migrate and if you follow moore's law:

(môrz lâ) (n.) The observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future. In subsequent years, the pace slowed down a bit, but data density has doubled approximately every 18 months, and this is the current definition of Moore's Law, which Moore himself has blessed. Most experts, including Moore himself, expect Moore's Law to hold for at least another two decades.

that means that at least once every year your laptop will be osoleted by another newer one.

This is too much time for me. So for me it's been running about once every three years or when the hotest CPU is three times of the computing power + better connectivity.

[Nolonemo]

[quote="a31pguy"]that means that at least once every year your laptop will be osolete. [quote]

The way I see it, my Thinkpad is only obsolete when it's too slow to do what I use it for.