My five year old laptop can still runs most games, (although it’s getting quirky) and my four year old cellphone is going strong. I see little reason to update and I hope to get another 3-5 years out of them, barring major hardware failure.
5 years is nothing nowadays. I just upgraded from a 14 year old laptop to a 6 year old one, and the old one was still perfectly usable
Same. I recently changed the battery on my 6 year old laptop. Works still fine. No need to buy a new one
Me too! I hoped it would fix it from turning itself off when it isn’t plugged in. But it still isn’t working, so some other connection is naf.
I’m no expert, but have you tried to change the CMOS Battery? After I haven’t switched my laptop on for some time, it would bootloop 3-4 times before turning on. Changing the CMOS battery did fix it for me.
Oh wow, I didn’t even know that was a thing. Looking it up that might be the fix. My computer can’t keep time or date which is one of the side effects of a dead CMOS.
Thank you kind stranger!
Yw😌. If it doesn‘t keep time or date, it could really be the CMOS. Good luck 👌
Well once you pass the peak of mt stupid in this instance you have all the best hardware of the time…. So your old hardware is totally fine!
it’s fine up until you run into compatibility issues
Too old and software and shit sucks, runs like ass and doing anything new with friends is a pita.
Too new and software and shit sucks, runs like ass and doing anything new with friends is a pita.
The Linux way.
