My trusty HP41CX is now 26 or so years old. It sits on my desk as it has for all this time and always works. I have a cache of them from an office I closed down 22 years ago. Guess I am a Luddite.
I make a living with my computer and it has to work for me, not me work on it. Which is what I seemed to be doing all too often in a PC world. Strange things happen in spite of a plethora of security software. Google can’t be accessed, Acrobat just quits, the scanner just quits scanning, the video freezes and the thing flashes and whirrs and grinds. Honestly, how good can a device be that downloads patches weekly?
In the last ten years since being a free lancer I have purchased 5 laptops and two desktops. The last of each are less than 3 years old. The retirees were not really obsolete they just quit working for various reasons ...pollution of the OS, video cards, screens whatever.
I just reconfigured to all Macs and am having growing pains in the transition but think this will pass. File management is the biggest difference I see ...some things different some not as easy. I figure that I can pay twice the price if this thing lasts the way it should and still come out way ahead. Over the years I have seen too often that quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. I like stuff that I get tired of before it wears out.
My son has a MacBook that he bought used in 2003 or 4 that still chugs along without a quibble.
Windows 7 may work out but so far MS have over promised and under delivered too many times to be trustworthy.
You sure know how to hurt a man ... My trusty 41CX got lost in a move as did my trusty 41CV. Wonderful machines and better than my 48G in many respects.
A cache of them, you say?