Comic Strips

It's nice to have a purpose:-).

"We are taking you to the dump today, 10 year old laptop! Ransack you for raw materials! I'm going to jam a screwdriver right through your CPU!"

My daily driver desktop is 8. It was $1100 back then. On it I work two ver-ry nerdy jobs.

I envy you where 10 years is a long time !

My 2014 Toshiba i7 still chugs along. Technically it's two laptops in one as the first one if it was rebooted while hot the GPU would go all 1024x768 in the top left corner. The replacement mainboard I got ended up being an AMD one but if I enable the AMD chip in device manager it simply dies so it uses the onboard Intel HD graphics instead.

1GB SSD, plus 2GB HDD in an optical bay adapter.

It's on its third battery - works for about an hour but jumps to 7% within a minute of running on battery, so if I put it to sleep etc it won't go again without power.

This is me with my 11 year old thinkpad t420, sometimes I'll even ask it to play minecraft or holocure both of which it will mystically play just fine

Steams interface unironically runs worse on it than those two games

You feel bad for zis little laptop.

This is because you crazy. It has no feelings. It is just a machine.

Smiles in Thinkpad.

The first (and last) surface product I bought was the pro 3, and I still find uses for it today. I'm planning on making it a media hub for my workout machine when I get that set up. I need to clear some space before I can put that together.

I recently purchased an older gen (refurb) framework 13 and it sure is quick. A bit costly, but hopefully the last full laptop I'll need to buy.

My desktop is an older (purchased used) Dell high end desktop system, which I dropped CPU/RAM/SSDs into and augmented with a Nvidia RTX card. Runs like a champ. Built in ~2016 or so... It was like 5 years old when I got my hands on it.

I still have my ~15 year old Alienware... I think the M15x, which was a pre-Dell acquisition laptop. From college. Which still works but probably needs some coaxing to get up and running again. That was the last "new" system I purchased. I learned my lesson then to not buy new.

I also have a collection of older servers and stuff and I run a homelab on dated enterprise equipment. It needs an upgrade as the main components are over 10 years old (except the drives), and it's showing its age. Looking at getting a refurb/used Dell FX2s chassis because it's more upgradeable than the alternatives and should save space and power.

The only warning I will give is that low end consumer systems are going to be garbage, whether they're new or not. When buying a used prebuilt, I highly recommend finding a used business system.

My 16 year old iMac valiantly can run roughly one application at a time, which is all I need it to do for background media while working

My 5 year old laptop just got blown up by fire in battery the other day. Would've been glad to use that sunnavabitch a little more.

You're missing the Jolly Roger