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Hardware is not cheap. It is merely less expensive than it used to be. Arguably, much computer hardware is outrageously expensive and poorly constructed with it. This applies especially to laptops whose makers do very well out of lock-in to proprietary gizmos both software and hardware. An advantage of Linux is that it does run very well on older systems. It frees us from buying into the upgrade treadmill, no more so than with laptops whose makers have yet to "go straight", get honest and offer upgradeable parts. :) Mark At 08:49 03/06/2002 -0700, Alex Daniloff wrote:
Well, The same rules and physical laws that apply to general hardware are also true for your laptop.
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Since hardware is so cheap why bother about its longevity? Is five year an average laptop lifespan not enough for you? After that it's gonna be technically and morally obsolete device. Although, you still can use it as a typewriter. A have 486DX laptop which is already about 15 years old and it's still working. But what can you do with it? It's very heavy and painfully slow and it has only BW display. I hope to recycle it someday. Are you shooting for the oldest working laptop record in the Guinness Book? Get a life man!