Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:30AM from the old-enough-to-vote dept.

DesertNomad points out this article at The Register "about a fairly aged Pentium-based server that lasted 18+ years without much in the way of service." Reminds me that I have a pair of working, occasionally used, Pentium-based notebooks (more like lug-books), one of which is a 1999 Thinkpad, and the other a 1996 CTX. I'm sure there are plenty of boxes out there that have survived at least 18 years and that are in daily or constant use. The fans are always the tricky part! What's your best personal hardware-survival stories? I have some keyboards in active service that were made in 1984, and probably some of them go back well before that, but keyboards should last that long.

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Just a laptop. by jimbo · 2016-01-14 06:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm running a 15" Macbook Pro C2D from 2007, no repairs. I think that's quite decent for a laptop. Might replace the hard drive with an SSD soon. I am using a newer computer for gaming though.