{"id":627,"date":"2009-05-27T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2009-05-26T21:45:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T04:45:19","slug":"never-gonna-give-you-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Never Gonna Give You Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why is it people hang on to their computers way<\/em> too long?
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\nThere seems to be a rash of people discovering that their computers are slow. Yes, there are many things that cause a slow PC, but the number one reason \u2014 which apparently too many people are in denial over \u2014 is that the computer you’re using is an antique.<\/p>\n

Old computers are slow.<\/p>\n

Let me say that again: Old computers are slow<\/em>. Yet people just can’t give them up.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it’s that the computer still works. Yes, it’s slow, but it still gets e-mail and visits the Internet. It can play a game or two, perhaps not too insufferably. But the system is flakey; it’s unstable. It’s slow. Yet, it works, so all that is forgiven.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it’s that the gizmos we have do tend to last longer and we’re used to that. No one would think of using a cell phone from 10 years ago. They were huge! They had bulky batteries that lasted maybe 4 hours. They had no features and only a two-line text screen, if that. You’d look like an utter dork if you carried one around. You’d look like a bigger dork if you complained that it was slow.<\/p>\n

Cars do last longer. No one looks foolish driving around a 10-year-old car. Of course, cars don’t get slower with age. (Well, much slower.) Then again, today’s computers are as different from a system 10 years ago as today’s cars are different from a car of 80 years ago.<\/p>\n

Perhaps people just forget that the computer is, at its core, technology<\/em>. Technology marches forward. To keep pace, you should buy a new computer at least every six years or so.<\/p>\n

Six years? Heck, I once replaced all my computers every two<\/em> years.<\/p>\n

Yeah, you could stretch that out to eight years, but you get my point: replace the computer after a given time. The new one will be cheaper and faster than the one it replaces, and you’ll be happier with the purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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