Just realized I’m still rocking the 2012 Mac Mini as my main machine. There was a time when 3-5 years old would render something useless.
We do have other computers that are newer, including my wife’s laptop (2019) which replaced a 2009 Macbook Air (I believe) and our work laptops.
2013 MacBook pro. Still works wonderfully for my needs.
I bought it used for 900 when it was a year or so old.
HP circa 2011 maybe 2012. It’s missing the “2†key but who uses that number anyway?
Almost new 17" HP laptop. Black Friday deal last year for $300. It replaced another PC laptop that was about 10 years old. Never had an apple.
HP circa 2011 maybe 2012. It’s missing the “2†key but who uses that number anyway?
Seems like everything in my work inbox is a #2 these days.
Current laptop for work (MacBook Pro) is about a year old. Replaced a 5 yr old Lenovo, which was starting to have some physical hardware problems with the drive.
My wife is using a 10 yr old HP. We are past due to replace that.
Just replaced my 2012 iMac and my 2011 MacBook Air over the past year or so.
Brand new HP laptop w/ amd ryzen5
Massive improvement over my 8 year old toshiba laptop, which is still kicking around cuz I have a couple of applications on there which I haven’t yet installed on the new one.
So far, I’ve just used the new laptop for zwift, YouTube during zwift, and Garmin Express / connect. Anything else, my work laptop is at home too, so I’ll use that or my phone. Once we go back to the office full time, which will be a slow transition, then I’ll use the new one more.
Mid 2014 Macbook pro, Zwift PC has some hardware updates last year after the old video card took a dump.
Wife has a 2018 Macbook pro and was using a 2011 air up to that point. The air was ok and would have been ok if the battery was replaced or it was left plugged in.
I will say our experience with Apple products has been awesome. We still have an Ipad 1 bought soon after introduction that the youngest uses and the oldest has a low gen Ipod she runs around with. My wife went through 4 other laptops between 2007 and 2011. Three of the four needed new motherboards, easier said than done on a laptop. Not the work, finding the correct one. The other one had the battery die if I remember correctly.
Thinkpad W510. Made in 2010. Batter life is starting to be an issue, and a few kes on the keboard need to be pressed firmlyyy. Otherwise no problems.
Top spec late 2010 iMac
I use to load it up with handbrake encodings and a good chunk of photoshop work but I stopped that a few years ago so it’s mainly web surfing and a Plex transcoder nowadays. I swapped the internal HDD for an SSD and wowza did that make a huge difference, it genuinely felt like a new machine.
Only thing that would make me upgrade is a lack of current ports, best I got is FW800 and that wasn’t very popular even in 2010!
My wife decided to go with a windows laptop this time. Despite all the research she did, it has the worlds worst webcam, and the charger malfunctioned in the first month.
We’ll see how long it lasts.
Macs go a long time. I have a Mac desktop from circa 2010 I just replaced with a brand new 27". The old one still works pretty good, I just wanted a bigger screen for working. The first real TV I owned (which I thought was big) was 27"
My main system is somewhere between a week old and 4 years (processor is an i7 6800). Within the last week I added a 1TB M.2 SSD to replace my 250GB SATA SSD C drive as the main drive. Two weeks ago I replaced the motherboard after I had ripped out one of the PCI sockets last year trying to add another graphics card (main graphics card is an NVIDIA GeoForce GTX 1070 8GB). It was becoming difficult to edit video on multiple screens without that PCI slot holding a second graphics card. With the motherboard replaced, I added a graphics card (NVIDIA 1060 6GB) my son was planning to sell, and another 32GB of DDR4 RAM. I should be good for the next year or so with this system for my 4K editing purposes, but will definitely have to upgrade for the next gen 8K video editing.
2013 Dell Precision M4800…
Laptop is a super cheap Acer that is about 3 years old.
Desktop I replace the guts every 5 years or so, but that cycle gets longer every time. The need to update frequently isn’t there anymore. The case is probably pushing 25 years at this point and getting a little rusty. That, the keyboard and mouse are probably what is left from my first system I built for college.
Just realized I’m still rocking the 2012 Mac Mini as my main machine. There was a time when 3-5 years old would render something useless.
We do have other computers that are newer, including my wife’s laptop (2019) which replaced a 2009 Macbook Air (I believe) and our work laptops.
My desktop I use is ca 2013. I’d have never been able to go that long with the same PC and have it still be functional anytime from 1990 thru 2010. Software is considerably behind the hardware right now.
~Matt
I have no idea. I bought it refurb in 2016. But it’s got a Sandy Bridge i5-2400 and that came out in 2011 and basically replaced in 2012/13. I don’t notice many issues - I put in a bigger HDD and the fastest small format graphics card when I bought it.
My work PC that I do all my graphics and rendering and 3D work is much newer, a Kaby Lake i7-7700 from last year
I have a laptop that is at least 6 years old and it works great. In fact, I think it works better than the laptop I bought last year.
Interesting people who have both personal and work laptops. I use my work laptop as my personal computer. Probably depends what type/size of company you work for. My current laptop is an Asus, it gets replaced every few years mostly due to heavy abuse working in the field. Also have a work desktop that’s a 16 core high speed modeling/gaming system. Its older, but I update components fairly often.
For personal computers I have one dedicated system I built for Zwift in the pain cave, and another HTPC in the media room that also doubles as a NAS for my home network. All are Windows based currently. I still don’t understand the Mac craze with all the one button mouse fanatics.