How old is your computer?

The laptop, that I own, and which serves as my primary, daily-use computer, is:

  • Less than a year old.

    Votes: 7 10.9%
  • 1-2 years old.

    Votes: 15 23.4%
  • 2-3 years old.

    Votes: 19 29.7%
  • 4-5 years old.

    Votes: 16 25.0%
  • 5-6 years old.

    Votes: 2 3.1%
  • more than 6 years old.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't own/use/rent a laptop.

    Votes: 2 3.1%
  • My laptop is provided by my employer.

    Votes: 2 3.1%
  • I am self-employed, ignore my response.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I can't read, I don't know, or I'm not sure.

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Total voters
    64

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Mine is just over a year old. The one it replaced was close to 4 years old, which is about average for how long I keep my laptops.

But most of what I do on my laptop is low key; word processing, spreadsheets, bit of matlab coding, internet - so I don't need a super-powerful unit. When it comes to high-power processing; like a lot of the stuff I do at work (when I'm not [-]browsing scubaboard[/-] writing on my laptop) requires prety powerful computers, so I use a desktop for that.

I also have a desktop at home, for the same reason. Much cheaper to pack a lot of power into a desktop than into a laptop.

Bryan
 
could also have meant a palm-top computer... the new ones are getting pretty powerful beyond the old palm pilot?
If a palmtop were a laptop, then it would be called a laptop.

I didn't ask about desktop computers, palmtop computers, dive computers, calculators, watches, adding machines, abacuses, or anything besides laptops.

You guys are trying to make it far more complicated than it is.
 
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My laptop is for play. It's to take out on the boats so I can download and play with my pictures. There is NO business software on it. I bought the 17" Dell. That was nice for editing pictures but horrible to pack 1/2 way across the world round trip twice in a backpack.

The desktop in the study is for work. It doesn't have any pictures on it.
 
The laptop I use currently is nearly two years old. However it has the power to edit both standard def and HDV video so it does the hard tasks I need it to. I think I still own six older ones dating back to my very first laptop, a CP/M-based Epson Geneva which had the longest battery life of any of them. Of course it had no floppy or hard drives, just a RAM and tape drive but I could sit on the beach all afternoon and write chapters for my early books as long as I didn't run out of RAM.
 
What are you talking about? I DID say laptop. Many times!!!!!!!!!

FYI, PC != laptop...or desktop for that matter.
Because the title is "How old is your 'computer'?"

Even though this is in the "Non-Diving Related Stuff" area, most will equate your question with their dive computer on a diving forum. It's only natural... :wink:
 
Why ask the question, "How old is your computer?"

Because Nudediver wants to know, of course!

My Dell D600 was manufactured April 2004. I bought it used about 15 months ago. Works fine for both business and pleasure.

Although I have thought about getting a desktop for working with Photoshop and my other photography-related applications.
 
Even though this is in the "Non-Diving Related Stuff" area, most will equate your question with their dive computer on a diving forum. It's only natural.
Yeah...if you don't bother to actually read the poll question or the OP. For those readers, I included the option "I can't read, I don't know, or I'm not sure."
 
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