> as someone who has to upgrade hardware every few years just because it breaks.
You do? What are you doing to those poor machines??
> if everyone else is just okay with having a slow computer.
I don't have a good handle on what you consider to be a "slow" machine, but most people that I know aren't really that fussed about having the fastest possible machine.
> You do? What are you doing to those poor machines??
I... legitimately have no freaking idea. I do nothing to the machine, the fan bearings start to fail. I open the screen too many times, the bezel starts popping off and the hinge cover breaks due to that. And the ethernet cable was always loose in the port and trying to fix it eventually resulted in the port snapping off. And the charger barrel is so cheap that the metal coating scrapes right off the moment it ever rotates, causing it to stop being conductive. I think the main thing that was actually my fault was the keyboard because I think I drove a screw into the PCB and cracked it during one of my repairs (you have to remove the entire heatsink assembly and repaste the entire machine in order to get at the fans).
> I don't have a good handle on what you consider to be a "slow" machine, but most people that I know aren't really that fussed about having the fastest possible machine.
I started considering my laptop slow when it started taking a couple seconds to alt+tab. Sometimes it would even skip as if I pressed Tab twice when I really didn't. That kinda stuff annoys me so much because I need to be able to switch tasks really quickly. But I don't know if that's how decade-old machines really perform, which is why I just said "slow computer".
I guess by "slow" I really meant "unresponsive" where it doesn't react quickly to your inputs. That's what would annoy me the most from a computer.
You do? What are you doing to those poor machines??
> if everyone else is just okay with having a slow computer.
I don't have a good handle on what you consider to be a "slow" machine, but most people that I know aren't really that fussed about having the fastest possible machine.