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Re: Typical service life of residential and business PC?

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<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message 
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> How long do people typically keep their personal PCs?

That varies quite a bit with me. And depends on what you
mean by keep too. I still have almost all I have ever had,
don't bother to throw them out even when I stop using
them and that includes the DEC LSI-11 that was my first
personal PC in a very similar format to the IBM PC.

> Do people replace it  because of obsolescence/lack of power,

Usually.

> or because it is broken*?

I hardly ever have them break. I have just once in fact and
since that was the motherboard, and I always assemble my
PCs from parts, it made sense to make a new one and move
much of the stuff from the one that died to the new one.

Plenty replace laptops when they bog down and are too
slow and irritating to use.

> Likewise for PCs used in business?

Some places replace them routinely after a specified time.

Plenty more replace them when they
wont do something as well anymore.

> How long are they kept in service?

Varies tremendously. You still see some real dinosaurs being used.

> *Obviously, some computers break from accidents--
> they fall off a table or something hits them.

Yes, but that isnt all that common.

> Laptops can get lost or stolen.

Again, not all that common.

> But I'm not considering those.  I suspect most PCs are
> replaced before they physically develop problems.

Yes, that is certainly true. 

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Typical service life of residential and business PC? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-09 16:00 -0800
  Re: Typical service life of residential and business PC? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-03-09 19:07 -0600
  Re: Typical service life of residential and business PC? "Sam Crean" <sg55443@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 12:31 +1100
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    Re: Typical service life of residential and business PC? Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2016-05-04 14:42 -0500
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          Re: Typical service life of residential and business PC? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-05-06 14:09 +0200
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