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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:43pm
triskele wrote: Cool. We'll backup all your stuff and then flush all that Dell crap off the drive and do a clean install. I think that'll fix your bugginess and printer problems.

BlueHeronDruid

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:41pm
glassbuteo wrote: mmm boxes and yummy packing materials! (where's that one r-peep that was really really into cardboard?) You guys are so wired up at Druid Labs! I've got some packing materials for you, my dear! And you mean Harold?

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan

Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:41pm

Beaker wrote:

Netbook - 10 mos - still a cutie-pie toddler

System A - 3 yrs; System B - 4 yrs; System C - 6 yrs

Server A - 2 yrs Server B - 8 yrs

Laptop - 5 yrs

Don't 'fix' it if it ain't 'broke' has always been my motto. Contrary to the opinion of the average dolt sales droid at Best Buy, there's plenty of serviceable life left in older hardware.

How many hard drive failures have you experienced?

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Location: Pasadena ,Texas
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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:41pm

cookinlover wrote:

My stinkin' computer is 3 months old. That's because my other stinkin' computer, which was like 6 stinkin' years old, crapped out on me with all my stinkin' junk stuck inside it forever. That stinks. I guess I could hire one of those stinkin' computer forensic guys to rip the old stinkin' computer apart and retrieve the old junk, but it's just stinkin' junk, know what I mean? So I'm rebuilding all my stinkin' junk on the new one. I don't have a stinkin' laptop, though.

triskele

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:41pm
oldslabsides wrote: It's prolly gonna get reborn again once it gets down here - if you'll let me.

Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan

Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:35pm
triskele wrote: my machine is about 5 years old, but it crashed a year or so ago and had to be fixed...so it was like, reborn and stuff. my HUGE 17 inch "flat screen" monitor is probably about 8 years old. the SCREEN is flat, but it sticks out about 2 feet behind itself, like an old tv!!! It's prolly gonna get reborn again once it gets down here - if you'll let me.

BlueHeronDruid

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:32pm

We have a 7-year-old laptop (boat anchor running Linux now, for hobbitt's amusement).

My laptop is 5 months old, and the mini came at the same time.

The "guest" laptop is less than 2 years old.

hobbitt's desktop is from the great Dell explosion in our front hall from the summer of 2004 (we ordered 4 Dells with flat-panel monitors, 2 for our nephews and one for my cousin, and three of them came with printers). Holy carp that was a helluva lotta boxes....I'm sure the FEDEX guy thought we were insane....

triskele

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:30pm
my machine is about 5 years old, but it crashed a year or so ago and had to be fixed...so it was like, reborn and stuff. my HUGE 17 inch "flat screen" monitor is probably about 8 years old. the SCREEN is flat, but it sticks out about 2 feet behind itself, like an old tv!!!

buzz

Location: up the boohai

Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:27pm
sumthin stinks in here

cookinlover

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Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant)
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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:25pm

Lazy8

Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana
Gender: Male

Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 6:16pm
If I was home the one I'm typing one would be the youngest at a year and a half, but it really isn't mine. Neither is the desktop (~7 years and still kicking ass) but the house laptop is ours (9 years) as is the house desktop (~10 years) and the server (4 years or so).

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 5:51pm
oldslabsides wrote: My god you're bored. My MacBook is almost three years old. Well, Happy Stinkbone (in advance) to Your Computer!

Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan

Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 5:46pm
My god you're bored. My MacBook is almost three years old.

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 5:45pm
BlueHeronDruid wrote: You have 5 machines at home? yes. we each have a desktop and laptop and a spare laptop runs the webcam. we had 6. gave one to Peter.

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 5:41pm
manbirdexperiment wrote: Half joking. i did look at my system profiler app but couldn't find any references to figure out how old it is. maybe it's 2 years old - no idea. This laptop is almost 4 years old. L's desktop is about 10 months old. R's desktop is about 2 years old.

BlueHeronDruid

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 5:40pm
JrzyTmata wrote: the laptop I'm using right now is 4 years old. I also have a laptop that is 7 years old but it has a broken HD. we plan to fix and use it. Buzz's laptop is 5. my desktop is 4 years, Buzz's is 6 months. You have 5 machines at home?

winter

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 5:36pm
A little over a year.

Manbird

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 5:31pm
BlueHeronDruid wrote: A Rob is quite the jokester..... Half joking. i did look at my system profiler app but couldn't find any references to figure out how old it is. maybe it's 2 years old - no idea.

Beanie

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 5:31pm
The desktop that we run the wireless from was installed while I was in the hospital, having K, in 2000...

BlueHeronDruid

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 5:28pm
arighter2 wrote: Guess! A Rob is quite the jokester.....

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