How often are the systems refreshed?

[supersonicdarky]

How often do you update the hardware? I don't want to buy a laptop (pangolin) that will be instantly out of date. I need it for september so I can wait a bit.

[betrunkenaffe]

Quite often from what I've seen to keep up with the times. Welcome to the world of owning a computer, anything you buy is almost always obsolete

[Flyers2391]

How often do you update the hardware? I don't want to buy a laptop (pangolin) that will be instantly out of date. I need it for september so I can wait a bit.

I read a little while ago that they weren't expecting any big changes to the line-up in the near future but September is still a bit away.

[samalex]

How often do you update the hardware? I don't want to buy a laptop (pangolin) that will be instantly out of date. I need it for september so I can wait a bit.

I bought my Pangolin July 2009 (PanP5) and they've refreshed it twice since then with PanP7 being the latest. I think the jump from PanP5 to 6 was more in the case but from Pan6 to Pan7 had some major changes on the processor and other components.

Given my laptop is only a year old and now two revisions behind I don't feel like it's outdated by any means, so even if you ordered one now I think you'll have a system that's 'latest and greatest' for a while.

As all things in tech, no matter when you buy something, within 3-6 months it'll be outdated to some degree.

Sam

[doas777]

desktops 4-6 years
laptops 3-4 years

for personal hardware like my primary laptop or my workhorse/gamer desktop, I spend more and more often in upgrades. pretty much 3 years, unless I'm trying to rotate out a component that was disappointing from the get go (like the PentiumD I got in '05; replaced it in '07).

[thomasaaron]

We probably *average* refreshing every 6 months. But that's certainly not a hard and fast rule. Sometimes its more, sometimes its less.

For what it's worth, the only thing I *know* of that is on the radar is our Starling netbook.