How old is your main home PC in 2013

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

My old laptop from last year's poll had RAM and HDD upgrades I had done over the years. I also had to replace the keyboard. I found you really can do some upgrades and repairs yourself on a laptop that has been out of warranty for years. My other computers were desktops and servers.

Finally, a chip failed on the laptop's motherboard; therefore, I had an excuse to get a new one. I had been hoping for an excuse to get a new laptop with a quad-core, 8GB RAM, bigger display, and more HDD storage.

The new laptop is not very portable; however, I have other devices; such as, a mini-notebook and phone for my mobile needs.

[bfmetcalf]

My desktop is 10 months old now. Built it last March after my 5 year old laptop bugged out with a bad battery, crap cpu after too much heat in it. New rig has a i7 processor and 500GB HDD with W7 for the wife and the old 25GB HDD from the laptop with Arch thrown on it for me with an AMD HD 6850 GPU.

[AM Ramakrishnan]

While we have a family computer, and many other ones, the one I use the most is the one I am typing this on, which I estimate was gotten around 8 years ago.

[llanitedave]

My case is about 8 years old, the other componants I tend to replace every couple of years. Right now my motherboard is about two years old, carrying an AMD Phenom II 4-processor chip. I figure I'll give it another 6 months or so.

My wife's desktop has identical specs, but a different and newer case. We both have laptops that dual boot with Windows -- Windows 7 for me and Vista for her. I'd do completely without M$, but I need it for work, unfortunately.

[Penguinnerd]

Finally, a chip failed on the laptop's motherboard; therefore, I had an excuse to get a new one.

Looking at last year's poll, you had an inspiron 1420, like what I still have.
Sorry to hear of your loss, but congrats on the new one.

I've heard the nvidia video chip frequently fails on this model. Was that it?
Luckily, I have the cheaper integrated intel video on mine, which seems to have a lower rate of failure (Fingers crossed.).

[zer010]

1999, yep, pre-Y2k. Well, the mobo and CPU set is anyways. Not really sure about the rest...

[doorknob60]

You know you're a nerd when the answer to this question is "uhh...well...that depends." My motherboard is maybe about 2 years old, not sure exactly. See my signature for my specs. I also have a laptop that's 4 months old, but it has lower specs than my desktop (it was only $399), but works great for internet browsing, video watching, school work, etc.

[Gremlinzzz]

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.

[BrokenKingpin]

hmmm... I think it is 4 years, but I have upgraded it over time. It has a Q6700 quad core, so not that high end anymore.

I did upgrade the following:
- put it up to 8 gigs of ram
- Nvidia card (mid range)
- SSD

Xubuntu runs extremely fast on it, so I don't see the need to upgrade it. Although I have been gaming more, so a new i7 PC would be nice lol.

[Metalpen1984]

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?