View Poll Results: How old is your main home PC?

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  • 1 year or newer

    49 26.49%
  • 2 years

    24 12.97%
  • 3 years

    17 9.19%
  • 4 years

    31 16.76%
  • 5 years

    25 13.51%
  • 6 years

    18 9.73%
  • 7 years

    6 3.24%
  • 8 years

    8 4.32%
  • 9 years

    1 0.54%
  • 10 years or older

    6 3.24%
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Thread: How old is your main home PC in 2013

  1. #31
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    Re: How old is your main home PC in 2013

    Quote Originally Posted by Metalpen1984 View Post
    I can't tolerate about the stop of support in 2013... where should I go?
    To the latest Ubuntu release (or Xubuntu might be better suited for older hardware).
    Do you folks like coffee?

  2. #32
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    Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

    Re: How old is your main home PC in 2013

    Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 (Overclocked to 3.15ghz on air)
    Asus P5Q-EM purchased 2008
    8GB PC2-6400
    Seagate 640GB SATA2
    ATI Radeon HD 5570 (Overclocked via 12.10 CCC)

    Still a worthy system for what I do, but I built it initially as a HTPC.

  3. #33
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    Re: How old is your main home PC in 2013

    Quote Originally Posted by Metalpen1984 View Post
    Mine is ASUS S5200A, producted before 2006.
    After 2010, I change the os to Ubuntu 10.04 due to that the fat-laggy Windows XP SP3 can't work fine. Everything on that old-laptop is fine, I even used it for writing my proposal and resume for the science job. I have to say, Ubuntu 10.04 works super fine for my laptop, and I can't tolerate about the stop of support in 2013... where should I go?
    Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

    A new version of Xubuntu is released every six months, every fourth of which is a Long Term Support release, meaning that you are eligible to security updates for three years as opposed to the not-too-shabby-either eighteen months that you get with the normal releases.

    http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Syste...in-77002.shtml

  4. #34
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    Re: How old is your main home PC in 2013

    8 years old Dell 700m upgraded to 1GB Ram.

    works like a charm

  5. #35
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    Re: How old is your main home PC in 2013

    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlinzzz View Post
    Mine is newer,what i cant understand is there,s more than 500 views and only 62 votes.i find that (strange) its like that with every thread.
    Guests/bots can view threads too!

    I had to look up how old my current desktop is and it's about a year and a half old - bought the parts in June of 2011.
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  6. #36
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    Re: How old is your main home PC in 2013

    defining the main or most used in my house is impossible. I have 4 computers
    online. 2 desk tops and 2 laptops.

    Mine (this one) is the one i use for work and research , email and some chatting usually until mid afternoon. no idea how old it is (hp5713), i traded the entire system for a laptop about a year and a half ago.

    My Wifes is her primary computer, an emachines desktop that we bought used for 75.00 again the entire system and a printer,about 2 and a half years ago. an EL1200 as i recall. It had win xp on it but wouldnt work. Barely booted. 225 viruses later it worked fine, install 10.10 and zorin and it hasnt stopped.

    The one on my bench is a dell d800 i bought from a coworker of my wifes for 50.00 i use it for testing and file transfer stuff.

    The last is an eee i bought in a pawn shop for my birthday 3 years ago its a 1005ha. used primarily in the afternoon and evening for chat, skype, or when i need to go mobile.

    I guess there is no primary in my house. each has its own primary purpose and function, all run a flavor of ubuntu.
    The only dumb question is the one not asked.

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  7. #37
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    Re: How old is your main home PC in 2013

    Five year old HP Compaq dc5750 small form factor desktop running Ubuntu 12.10.

  8. #38
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    Re: How old is your main home PC in 2013

    I've had my desktop less than a year, but it was 3 1/2 years old when I got it. My "new" laptop (a Christmas gift to myself) is about the same age.

  9. #39

    Re: How old is your main home PC in 2013

    Hi all. Long time no see.

    Gateway Solo 2150.
    CPU~Single core Celeron (Coppermine) (-UP-) clocked at 501.145 Mhz Kernel~3.6.11-1-ARCH i686 Up~1:43 Mem~55.2/277.9MB HDD~80.0GB(12.5% used) Procs~72 Client~Shell inxi~1.8.26
    BIOS date is from 2000 but I think these were sold earlier than that. So ... +/- 12 years?
    Last edited by K.Mandla; January 9th, 2013 at 12:48 AM.
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  10. #40
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    Re: How old is your main home PC in 2013

    Quote Originally Posted by Penguinnerd View Post
    Looking at last year's poll, you had an inspiron 1420, like what I still have...

    I've heard the nvidia video chip frequently fails on this model. Was that it? ...
    Actually, it was the laptop's keyboard controller that failed. The keyboard controller is part of the motherboard and not part of the keyboard that can be replaced. I had replaced the keyboard a year earlier. I probably could have used the laptop with a USB keyboard; however, what is the point of having something mobile if you have to carry a keyboard with you. Beside that, I was waiting for an excuse to get a new laptop.
    Last edited by Old_Grey_Wolf; January 9th, 2013 at 01:28 AM.
    Use whatever OS or desktop works for you. Dual boot or use VMs if you want. Backup your computer regularly, and definitely before upgrading, partitioning, or installing an OS.

    No support requests by PM please.

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