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Equipment you?ve had last for the long haul.

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The Stig - PC Site Admin
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  • Ok even with most people buying new computers every 3-5 years, what equipment have you owned that?s lasted forever.

    I had an obscure brand monitor named Imagic that was 13-inch viewable and I used it for over 7 years, I just recently got a new one salvage from the university that?s slightly new/bigger and I?m keeping the Imagic in reserve.

    My first computer lasted 5 years with minimal upgrades, far to long but finally the HD was going bad in it and the whole system need to be replaced.

    My current speakers are going on 5 years old. Good old Altec Lansing, I tried to replace them but the ones I got didn't make the cut.
     

    Thomas

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  • I got a Compaq computer in 1997, it lasted me 8 years with no upgrades. And we only got rid of it becausae we needed a computer with more power. One of my dad's friends is using it still to this day.
     

    Kipkip

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    Most of my computers only last a year or 2, but my second computer lasted about 4 years. Of course, I wasn't a computer geek then.
     
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    Mine all die of all the programs installed x.x;

    But this one has a 200 GB HD, so hopefully it'll last longer than my last 40 GB one XD
     
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    o.O You have 80GB more than me. My new computer is only2 years old, but the monitor I'm using is 9 years old. I've had it since I was 6. There are all these stains and writings on it.
     
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    I just got a new Gateway 17" LCD. Seventeen isn't that great, but my old HP was a 15" which SUCKED after using this one XD

    My upstairs HP seems to be doing well o.o; My dad bought it for me from an auction, and it has no sound/modem XD But that really doesn't matter because I use it to type up my writing =D And it seems like it's at least going on 2/3 years, and works great! YAY FOR USED!

    I could get eMachines computer pretty easily 'cause they're dirt cheap new for the small PCs [with sound w00t!] but I heard they break pretty easily o.o; Something about everything being interconnected, so if anything goes wrong with one thing, you're screwed. But...Gateway is the parent company, which I trust, so, meh...
     
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