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by lucasoshiro 420 days ago
> likely to be obsolete within 5 years

Crazy how it's perfectly ok to use a computer from 2015 today. But it wasn't ok to use a computer from 1995 in 2005...

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True. The other day I was wondering whether I should buy a new PC, then realized I was only thinking that way out of old habit. It's 5+ years old, and that used to be when a PC would really start struggling to keep up with the software. Now there's kinda no point. If I did build a new one, it wouldn't be significantly more powerful than my current one, so I'd really just be trading older parts for newer ones from fear of parts wearing out.