Can laptop last a lifetime?

2nuts4_u · 04-03-2006, 06:36 AM

I use mine 4 hours a day. Will somthing wear down or give?

bigsaucybob · 04-03-2006, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by 2nuts4_u

I use mine 4 hours a day. Will somthing wear down or give?

I dont really think so, they test them pretty rigorously. Maybe not a lifetime, but a decent amount of time. It will get slower and slower with technology that comes out.

[-0MEGA-] · 04-03-2006, 12:55 PM

They can last many years, however parts will start to die, or start operating very slowly.

I dont know why you would want a laptop to last a lifetime, they would so rediculously slow 10 years from now.

**apj101** · 04-03-2006, 01:21 PM

it is unlikely to last a lifetime. I wouldn't want to quantify its life, nor say for certain that i wont last 100 years. But in all likely hood something will give out, be it cpu death, a cap popping, or a hard drive crashing (probably the first thing to go would be hard drive).

Now if we are talking about effective life, that is the life in which the laptop can be used effectively for day to day tasks i would say something around 8-10 years. Any more than that and the laptop will not be able to run any newish software at a bearable pace and will be good for all but the most menial tasks

I have a laptop 5 years old that is my printer server for example.

LaptopExtreme · 04-03-2006, 03:53 PM

It will last just as long as any desktop & monitor, that is, if you take care of it. Of course there can be the occassional blink which is unlimited to a monitor or a laptop LCD. Hard drive crash (as mentioned before) can happen to either also. I've got an ancient Toshiba (bluescreen) laptop that's still working, but extremely slow to today's standards, but so is my Epson 286 computer that i use as a end table.

ICANSEEYOU7687 · 04-04-2006, 01:58 AM

haha could you imagine what an 80 year old laptop would look like? Lets say you could get a laptop, in mint condition, and preserve it for 80 years before ever turning it on, and then getting a current laptop and comparing them.

Just imagine the new technologies that will become standard in 80 years, The AMD FX-60's and P4 hyperthreading at 3.0 ghz+ will look like a joke... Thats like comparing my TI-83 calculater to my new laptop thats comming in.

this is really interesting, its kinda wierd to talk about.

I dunno if you were being serious, but if you where, in 10+ years everything will change, atleast enough to need to upgrade a laptop. Games will become more advance, programs will require a lot more, even a typing document will probably required a significant increase of basic needs in 10 years. Just look at some of the more advance typing programs now, compared to those of 10 years ago. Ours now contain spreadsheets, 3d graphs, tons of fonts, colors and pictures, compared to a simple AaBbCcDd program that you could type letters on, and that was about it.

anyone want to buy a nice 2000$ laptop and see how it compares to a nice 2000$ laptop 80 years from now? ill throw in 20 bucks

but as everyone said, harddrives fry, cpu's fry, things break *shrug*. I am outa town at a lake house at the moment, and im on a Pentium III 750 mgz, 384 megs of ram, and a 56k modem, and im about to go throw the thing in the lake

**The_Other_One** · 04-04-2006, 02:24 AM

If you didn't use the keyboard, never closed the screen, never used the battery... It should last a good 5 years. The HD is almost always the first thing to die on a laptop. Hinges and shorts in the screen would be about as likely, unless you really didn't use it. Then there's the case of dropping the laptop...

goosy22 · 04-04-2006, 02:37 AM

well... have you noticed many other electronics that have lasted close to forever? i don't think it's possible... and like everyone else said... it's like one of those adding machines with the sliding blocks on polls (can't remember what they are called) compared to the calculator program on our computers... slow and uneffective...

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04-03-2006, 01:21 PM	#4 (permalink)
apj101 Administrator Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London Age: 26 Posts: 9,145	it is unlikely to last a lifetime. I wouldn't want to quantify its life, nor say for certain that i wont last 100 years. But in all likely hood something will give out, be it cpu death, a cap popping, or a hard drive crashing (probably the first thing to go would be hard drive). Now if we are talking about effective life, that is the life in which the laptop can be used effectively for day to day tasks i would say something around 8-10 years. Any more than that and the laptop will not be able to run any newish software at a bearable pace and will be good for all but the most menial tasks I have a laptop 5 years old that is my printer server for example.

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LaptopExtreme VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 880	It will last just as long as any desktop & monitor, that is, if you take care of it. Of course there can be the occassional blink which is unlimited to a monitor or a laptop LCD. Hard drive crash (as mentioned before) can happen to either also. I've got an ancient Toshiba (bluescreen) laptop that's still working, but extremely slow to today's standards, but so is my Epson 286 computer that i use as a end table.

04-04-2006, 01:58 AM	#6 (permalink)
ICANSEEYOU7687 Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 35	haha could you imagine what an 80 year old laptop would look like? Lets say you could get a laptop, in mint condition, and preserve it for 80 years before ever turning it on, and then getting a current laptop and comparing them. Just imagine the new technologies that will become standard in 80 years, The AMD FX-60's and P4 hyperthreading at 3.0 ghz+ will look like a joke... Thats like comparing my TI-83 calculater to my new laptop thats comming in. this is really interesting, its kinda wierd to talk about. I dunno if you were being serious, but if you where, in 10+ years everything will change, atleast enough to need to upgrade a laptop. Games will become more advance, programs will require a lot more, even a typing document will probably required a significant increase of basic needs in 10 years. Just look at some of the more advance typing programs now, compared to those of 10 years ago. Ours now contain spreadsheets, 3d graphs, tons of fonts, colors and pictures, compared to a simple AaBbCcDd program that you could type letters on, and that was about it. anyone want to buy a nice 2000$ laptop and see how it compares to a nice 2000$ laptop 80 years from now? ill throw in 20 bucks but as everyone said, harddrives fry, cpu's fry, things break shrug. I am outa town at a lake house at the moment, and im on a Pentium III 750 mgz, 384 megs of ram, and a 56k modem, and im about to go throw the thing in the lake