And what computer have you used which has had the longest lifespan?

My current PC is 7 years old, the last one I used for 10 years (probably still works), last one before that was at least 9 years.

>>105944241 (OP)
Macbook pro

>>105944241 (OP)
I think the longest was a packardbell ts11hr , 14 years circa, otherwise my average is 5 years circa. The first i had was a pentium 133mhz with windows 95.

>>105944241 (OP)
CPU 13 years old
GPU 9 years old

>>105944241 (OP)
Oldest PC i had was a desktop that i let go to junk collectors because i was a fucking retard who preferred laptops (had it since i was 6 but i forgot the brand), 2nd oldest was a laptop my dad got me because he refused to give me a cellphone (sometime in 2012, it was an HP with WIN7), 3rd oldest was a gift my motther got me for Christmas in 2014 (ASUS), don't have either anymore because i was forced to let go of the former and i didn't really want to keep the latter but i do have the harddrives of both. Current PC? 4 1/2, built it the same year i got a job, got a thinkpad T430 2 years later but only started using it since last year but not for much besides old roms because it has loonix.

The computer I've used the longest is an old 486. I still use it for one task because it has proprietary dongle to control a large piece of industrial machinery. It could still chug along well enough to browse the web until around 2010 or so.

The PC I've used the longest for general purpose use was a 1999/2000-era AMD Thunderbird+Geforce 2 build with 512MB of RAM. It could still do everything I needed including web shit until around 2012. After that the web went full retard and the various Linux distros I'd been using for years started dropping support via various cancerware like Rust and systemd. I could have kept it going with Gentoo but it would have been very painful and there was no point due to Firefox going full retard.

My oldest computer still in active use aside from the 486 is my Amiga 1200. I still use it today for video toaster and the genlock. Although I use it less and less with each passing year because tools on general purpose PC finally got good enough and I've switched over to using shit like Domesday to rip LDs/VHS/Beta. The quality is much better when the capture card is taken out of the chain so now the only real thing I could use the Amiga for is timing subtitles and maybe overlaying effects. But I can do the latter much quicker on my UNIX machines.

>>105944241 (OP)
I have a hp office computer from 2008 that I found on the side of the road. It has a rasperry pi os on it. Some debian linux thing someone installed on it.

>>105944454
>The PC I've used the longest for general purpose use was a 1999/2000-era AMD Thunderbird+Geforce 2 build with 512MB of RAM. It could still do everything I needed including web shit until around 2012. After that the web went full retard and the various Linux distros I'd been using for years started dropping support via various cancerware like Rust and systemd. I could have kept it going with Gentoo but it would have been very painful and there was no point due to Firefox going full retard.
I think you can still squeeze something more out of this one using freebsd and palemoon, it would be like going through molasses but still.

>>105944461
I got a PC from 1998.

>>105944241 (OP)
My current pc is 10 years old, 6700k and 980Ti
I have no desire to upgrade nor buy a new one

Right now I'm using a budget desktop I built in early 2023, Ryzen 3600, random assrock B550M, second hand 8GB RX580, 24GB RAM, two 1TB SSDs and one 4TB HDD. Some random non-modular seasonic PSU and Cooler Master case. Stock cooler but with Noctua case fans. Tempered glass side window broke so I replaced it with a piece of black plastic board from Hobby Lobby wrapped in carbon fiber vinyl.

My oldest computer T420s I bought in 2013 for college is still around kicking ass. What a computer. 1600x900, 16GB DDR, 128GB SSD later upgraded to 512GB, lightweight, strong, best keyboard, USB 3.0. Only downside was crappy battery life, I was never able to find the ODD bay battery for sale for a reasonable price. I have Debian 12 running and I still use it as seedbox, file server and jellyfin host. I have some older computers tho I bought for collecting but I don't really use them beyond turning them on and playing doom from time to time.

2013 iMac.

The oldest one I have is a 5 year old Macbook air. I specifically bought the last intel model because I know it will be scalped in the future.

>>105945132
Mine is Ryzen 5 2600 and a GTX 1070, don't see a reason to upgrade either.

>>105944241 (OP)
12 years old. 13 year old technology. No plans to replace it.
>And what computer have you used which has had the longest lifespan?
I swap my computers around every few years for different reasons, but I have one laptop I've used for various things for almost 10 years.

>>105944241 (OP)
I believe it was built in 2013, purchased in 2014, and came into my possession in 2016. I started using it in 2017 (so I’ve been using it for 8 years now). Prior to that I had a DELL. I believe that one was purchased between 2007 and 2009, and I ran it until 2017 (between 8 and 10 years).
>>105944454
I think I’ve seen your videos on YouTube.

>>105945115
I was born in 1998

Phone-A70-2019
Desktop-P510-2016 (gtx1660+128gb e-waste ram upgrade 2023)
NAS-119j-2018
Laptop-L380-2018
SBC-Orange pi zero-2016
Printer-MF4690-2007
Retro computer-Server 325-1996
rdp terminal - 720XT-2006

>>105944461
>I have a hp office computer from 2008
At work I have 2013 HP Prodesk G1 that I used as main PC till few months ago. I'm still using it but only as rdp client for my work pc which is actually windows 11 vm on big hp server.

>>105944241 (OP)
My current desktop is from 2014 I think but I bought it in like 2018 or 2019 or something.
My longest continually used computer is definitely my laptop, a mid 2012 model non-retina MBP, been using it for 13 years now, near daily.

>>105946031
As for oldest computer I currently own I still have my old IBM Thinkpad from the 90s, but I never use it. Also have an old HP PA-RISC Machine, and a pair of sun Ultra Enterprise 400 (IIRC) servers. Don't use any of that though, it's basically decorative, though I had OpenBSD on the Suns at one point.

>>105946050
>sun Ultra Enterprise 400
Very nice but those must suck so much power.
I also have decorative piece IBM pentium pro but I have it running 24/7 since it only draws 60w at idle with one cpu and 2 scsi drives. I really like the sound of old drives in workshop at night.

>>105944241 (OP)
Current build is a year and a half old, last one was in use 13 years.

2016
i5 6600k
gtx 1060
cpu fan died like a year ago but it still doesn't fry itself even if i want it to to justify a new rig.

>>105944241 (OP)
2-3 years old for current pc, but oldest I have is 16 years old Athlon II PC from 2009 my dad threw together, still works and plays my old pc games.

Probably my '13 W541 Chinkpad I just retired this year.

>>105945870
I was born in 1888.

>>105944241 (OP)
Until battery can't hold a charge anymore, so every 4 years
latest is 1 year old

M1 air (2022)
Various components of my desktop (2018)
Surface pro (2017)

Still use all of them daily!

>>105944241 (OP)
old enough, dingleberry

>>105948025
I was born whenever you were born minus 100 years.>>105948025

5800x and 3070ti I've had it for going on 4 years and I don't see myself upgrading anytime soon. Will probably end up being my longest build. The build before 6300x and 680 i had for nearly a decade.

>>105949967
I still use that 6300x to this day in a server. Its such a beast of a cpu and all am3+ haters can eat shit

>>105944241 (OP)
Dell Optiplex 2013

>>105944241 (OP)
Longest lifespan was my Celeron/Pentium II which I overclocked to 450 mhz if I recall. It lasted 5 years. I didn't play any games but learned Photoshop, Illustrator and Maya with it. This was in early 2000s.

M1 Mac Mini, so like, 5 years old i guess.

>>105944241 (OP)
The oldest components of my PC are 22 years old, the newest parts are 13 years old.

Thinkpad x61. 18 years old this year and still in daily use. Upgraded to SSD, flashed bios, 8gb ram, Linux ofc. I mainly code, write, use ai tools, listen to music and watch old anime. Apart from the screen being lackluster, it's an amazing laptop. I plan to keep it in use as long as I possibly can.

>>105947180
Thats a very nice case behind the one in the foreground. Anyone know the case name?

>>105951342
Antec P180

>>105951405
Very nice. Love that front panel design. Four front drive bays are cool. Mine has five. Corsair 800D. Massive 2008 case.

>>105944241 (OP)
Pentium MMX 200 with 32MB

>>105944241 (OP)
5 years, and base specs on current models are still no better. They don’t even pretend to give you a reason to upgrade.

>>105944454
>VT on an A1200
News to me. I'm not aware of any toaster hardware that worked on the A1200, just the box machines.

>>105944241 (OP)
. TRS-80 Model I Level II. Still up and running.

. 3.8ghz P4 + GeForce FX5900 Ultra + XP Posready 2009 as my main rig.

My A500 is currently out of service but ran without issue from 1987 to 2023.

>>105944241 (OP)
>How old is your computer?
Which one? I am a hoarder with rooms full of computers/laptops going back to 1995. I can't sell or throw away any hardware.

But I did use my i7-3770k for 9 years. Nine looooong stagnated quad core years. Thanks intel. That machine has a fresh Win 11 install on it now and it's still pretty snappy.

>>105950822
What are they?

>>105944241 (OP)
My main PC is 22 years old, its the one on the bottom. My other two PCs are 11 and 16 years old respectively.

>>105949992
Same bro

>>105944241 (OP)
>How old is your computer?
Almost 3 years, although the GPU is turning 5 this year since I bought it secondhand, while the rest of my build was new at the time.

>longest lifespan?
My previous PC; i7 6700k, 16GB RAM, GTX 1080, 256 GB SSD, it lasted 7 years and only became "obsolete" when my dumb ass decided to buy a 4k monitor and then wonder why games ran like shit. Realistically I could still be using it, but I wanted to upgrade anyway.

Oldest computer I own is a Pentium MMX 166, oldest computer I run modern/internet-connected shit on is an '08 spec rig with a Phenom X4 9850, 4GB RAM, 8800 GTX, dual booting XP and Windows 10.

Windows 10 runs surprisingly well on such an old machine though, probably thanks to it using a more modern SSD. Hell, with Edge I can even watch 1080p youtube - firefox won't go above 720p for some reason.

>>105944241 (OP)
Little under a year. Most reliable was a MacMini which lasted just shy of 10 years before it had a critical failure and was unrecoverable. HD still worked though.

Make sure you back up your data. 3-2-1 bitches.

6y it's an intel 9700k with 32G DDR4 and an nvidia 3060 12GB. Still solid
I still have a core2 duo laptop that refuses to die (similar to pic related) but it's too slow to do anything serious

>>105944241 (OP)
3 years old

>>105956634
The cloud is just someone elses computer.