No Reason to Upgrade General

what do you use it for?

>>57111852

I'm glad for you.

Other people want to do more demanding tasks.

My laptop from several years ago is fine and will be fine for many years to come. I just wish it had a GPU capable of games and will likely build a desktop for this goal.

>>57111874
Browsing the web, writing, watching videos, listening to music, playing games worth playing (read: DOSBox and emulators).

What a silly question to ask.

still using my t61s for almost everything. have upgraded ram to 4 gb and replaced the hdd with an ssd.

>>57111852
>1024x768

I don't hate my eyes.

>>57111852
>this is what NEETs actually believe

>>57111852
>1680x1050 screen
>DualCore E6400 2x2.21 GHz
>3,2GB memory, 800 graphics memory

It's not that I had no reason to upgrade. I just don't have the bucks to properly do so.

>>57111917
Everyone knows truly enterprising people spend money for no reason.

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>>57111852
>I'm poor so I'm pretending that the shit I use is still good just to make me feel a bit better about my failed existence.

This might sound like bantz but I feel you bro.

>>57111935
even poor people can afford better shit than that

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>>57111935
If it does what you want it to do, why is it not "good"?

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>>57111947
Depends on your location.

>>57111852
I only update my pc for muh gaymen

i have same specs as OP's machine on my bed laptop. Perfect for watching videos, shitposting, reading and stuff

added bonus= it wouldn't ruin my day if I dropped it and broke it

>>57111934
But that's irrelevant. Someone with a job related to computers in any way NEEDS at least a semi powered PC and display.

This >>57111929 is something I can accept

AMD FX-6350 reporting in.
One 24" 1920x1200 Dell IPS

I could afford to upgrade or buy more monitors, but why? Having grown up with 14" CRTs taught me how to manage windows efficiently, and memorize things, so I don't need multiple monitors.

I wanna hear about peoples DOS machines and what software they use and for what.

>>57111998
>and display

Not really.

Also, "related to computers" is a rather loose term. An internet blogger is a job related to computers, and they need jack shit. Same with a web "developer."

>>57112128
Technically this goes for everyon else tech related, at least the employed ones, if they are provided machines at work.

>>57111852
I usually find that I don't need to upgrade, but I do change my gear every some 5 years because I'd prefer the hardware to not fail on me at a random time.

>>57112175
If the failure will be at a "random time" what assurance do you have that new hardware wont fail?

Practically i don't have much reason to upgrade/replace My 2013 MacBook air, but being a consumerist shill i find myself thinking... a little more storage, a little more RAM a little more GPU power would be nice.

>>57112183
I do work.
You are nitpicking.

>>57112228
>I do work.

So "working" is your assurance new hardware wont fail? Speak sense, man.

>>57112197
Same to be honest
I don't need anything upgraded, but it would be nice to have more RAM so I could use VM instead of dual booting when I need Windows. But even that I don't really need since I also have a proper PC and these days only use windows for muh gaymes which I don't even play any more.

>>57112175
you're more likely to get a hardware failure in the first five years than the next ten though, most duds die out fast

>>57111852
I'm still using and ivy bridge i5 and have no intentions of upgrading any time soon.

2.0 quad
4gb 1600
5400 rpm drive
no discrete graphics.

might get a low level summit ridge

>>57111852
My philosophy is that it makes no sense to use stuff that is older than what you could potentially get for free, unless the old stuff is significantly better for some reason. You can get complete, working computer with an athlon X2 @ 3GHz with 4GB of DDR2 for free. It makes no sense to use a computer older than this, unless you have a good reason for doing so.

with the irrelevance of the WWW, there's less reason than ever to upgrade

Understandable, don't fix what ain't broken ya know
I have a thinkpad 380ed with a 166mhz Pentium MMX, 48mb of ram, 1mb VRAM, 2.1gb HDD and an 800x600 screen
I use it for shitposting and programming
It works

But I also own a desktop with an i7 6700k, 32gb of ram, two rx 480 8gb cards in crossfire, nearly 18tb of storage and two 1440p monitors
Which I use for games and CAD

It's all about what you actually do

>>57111852
>x2

In a couple days I'll buy an Acer C110. It's a 10 inch netbook with tablet capabilities.

Centrino 1 GHz, 768 MB RAM. I'll install lubuntu on it. I'll use it for writing my thesis in LaTeX. I don't know how fast it will compile though. I manage my versioning with git so I'll be able to compile it on my T420 when I want to.

I plan this because I get very easily distracted and begin to browse the net and shitpost if I'm on a capable computer.

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Built my current PC in 2013 and it has
AMD 3.3GHz 6-core
AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
8GB RAM
and I just got a 256 GB SSD

Before that I had a Toshiba Satellite laptop with
2.16GHz Intel Celeron 1-core
Intel HD graphics
2GB RAM
160GB 5400 RPM HDD

Laptop came with Vista, and I installed 7.
Installed 7 on the desktop, upgraded to 10, and am currently back on 7.

I'm going to build a new PC next year because I've been working hard and am almost at budget and I really want to play some games my current PC can't handle properly.

I don't know where I was going with this. I just felt like telling a cool story.

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>>57111852
I still use my old build as a bedside PC. Steam in home streaming has given me no reason to upgrade this as i can just run any games i want to play on my main PC.

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Windows XP the immortal OS.

>2016
>Look at what OS the business runs
>XP

XP will never die.

Ive got an i7 920, overcloked

I might drop in a 6 core xeon if I can work out the right way get it wroking

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>>57112940

>>57112978
I'm fucken serious I know auto shops that run XP in 2016.

>>57112994
Sorry I misread your post, I thought you were simply shilling XP. But yeah, you're right, so many small companies still run XP. Also bigger ones that have no real reason to focus on IT.
And I'm trusting those people with my credit card...

>>57112027
Multiple monitors are great man, I use mines a lot! Anyone can take advantage of them. Personally I keep two Chrome browsers open on each screen.

>>57113013
I had two, never used the second, sold it.
Instead I use a decent window manager, and my brain to remember things.

>>57113006
Try national health centers, I have seen doctors with XP computers.

I have a notebook where I keep all the times I have seen win XP.

>>57113028
>I have a notebook where I keep all the times I have seen win XP.
LMAO, I'm going to do this too now.

>>57113042
best hobby, tons of fun.

If nothing changes in 2020 I will LMAO for hard.
If nothing changes in 2030 I will die from LMAO.
If nothing changes in 2040 god help us all.

>all these people posting stuff that's within a normal upgrade cycle is a thread about NOT upgrading

Also, I hope having bigger numbers and 0.001% faster shitposting and anime watching is worth you killing the planet.

I recently threw out a working Pentium 2 @ 350 MHz with 1 GiB of RAM because I couldn't justify the 40 Watts it uses, when a 2W Raspberry Pi is more powerful.

>>57113061
Considering that OP's image is a c64 being used in a Polish mechanic's garage, I think your days are numbered.

>>57113077
How do you know its a Polish mechanic's garage?
>your days are numbered
Life the fast life of a gentoman, die young, I regret nothing kings can only envy my life.

>2560x1440 IPS
>GTX980Ti SLI
>4790K

Eh, I guess I can wait a bit longer.

>>57113077
>a c64 being used in a Polish mechanic's garage
>implying they use computers

>>57113074
Did you even try to donate it to the pcem team? :^(

>>57113077
>c64

There is safety in obsolescence.
Who writes viruses for c64 in 2016 hoping to harvest data with it?

>>57113131
No. It's in the recycling center already.

>>57113123
>GTX980Ti SLI
>released 2015
>"Eh, I guess I can wait a bit longer."

I should hope so. /g/ is consumerist as fuck, holy shit.

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I use XP.
I brows 4chan or XP.
I'm posting this on XP.

Why change its the best for web browsing?

Still using a Thinkpad W500, but the CPU is starting to feel weak what with the direction webpages are going with all that JS bullshit. Other than that, it's perfect, you can't even get laptops with 1920x1200 screens any more.

I want to get of those 4k 40" Philips monitors though, and that means I'll have to upgrade to something with at least Displayport 1.2.

>>57113019
Makes sense

>>57113173
>not blocking the javascript

But I suppose install uMatrix is a lot of work. Better to spend 100s of [insert currency here] so you don't have to.

>>57112465

wot?

how i claim my free athlon X2 @ 3GHz with 4GB of DDR2?

last time i needed to pay a small sum of money.

>>57111852
my thinkpad x220 and i5 2500k desktop is enough for me. used to have a single core amd64 desktop before that but it does not work anymore so had to get new hardware

>>57111929
i have money but why would i waste it on something that i dont need? all "poor" people i know are poor because they buy shit that they dont really need but there was some ad that said that its cheap...

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>>57111852
>Hard drive with 19k hours overall uptime (newest part of the computer)

Bitches, please.

>>57112994
some still run win95 or nt4 too

>>57113513
cant it run the latest kernel?

>>57113533
Nope, support for pre-PCI macs was dropped in 2.6

>>57111934
Not spending money for any reason doesn't mean you're enterprising, you know...

>>57112940
I still have an XP partition on this HDD.

Haven't logged in to it for over a year now, but it doesn't seem right to get rid of it...

>>57113314
I've found plenty of them in the electronics waste at my uni. I've gathered plenty of stuff there. I've also been offered several old intel core duo computers for free, as well as hp retail keyboards and 17" monitors. Laptops are a whole other story though, people generally don't give them away since it doesn't cost anything to store them.

It would surprise you how modern the stuff is that people just throw away. If it can't be sold for more than €50 and it's expensive to ship it, people just toss it instead.

>>57113869
Seen people throw out newer stuff like LGA1155 (with an i7) and AM3 systems. I used to find a lot of those behind work.

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I'm still using my X61. Big development stuff (VHDL, large C and C++ projects) get done on my desktop, but if I'm elsewhere i can manage them on the X61 itself.

I went out of my way to get the Penryn motherboard, and I hand-soldered an LVDS cable adapter so I can use an IPS panel. I'm waiting for my i7-5600U motherboard to arrive from Shenzen so I can keep using the X61 for as long as possible.

>>57111892
This is why people don't talk to you

>Kids posting unironically that they still use 2008 tech or newer

>>57114074
The stuff is approaching 9 years of age. What is "old" is and has always been a case of moving goalposts. Sorry nobody's using your BBC Micro for day to day tasks.

>>57114089
There hasn't near anywhere near to as much advancement as was promised or hoped. Consider than Far Cry is 12 years old.

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>>57113711
I still brows the web on my XP machine.
Nothing comperes to it.

Win 7 is shit and every other new windows blows hard.

Its one stupid thing, you see on XP the file browser displays files in the order they are downloaded while in the new windows they are sorted alphabetically.

Download 50 files and try to look up the one you downloaded last on XP its a breeze while on every other file browser its shit somewhere inbetween other files sorted alphabetically.

What DE on Linux will give me this functionality?
Serious question BTW.

>>57114729
You do know you can change the sorting order, right?

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>12 year old pentium 4 system
>basically been running 24/7 the whole time
>no parts ever replaced besides upgrading ram from 512mb to 2gb
>boots in 20 seconds
>still plays 720p video and some old games at 800x600
Some sites can slow down the browser however due to the mountain of javascript modern web pages have.

>>57115692
Just install uMatrix for Firefox. That'll smooth things out.

>>57114729
I love shitting on Windows as much as the next guy but Windows Explorer has allowed you to change how directories are sorted since Win98

As for what "desktop environment" will do this for you in linux, the answer is "any sane file manager". Dolphin on KDE, Thunar, Nautilus assuming GNOME devs didn't remove it because GNOME

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>>57115735
Thanks. I wish uBlock Origin had a simple on/off button for disabling javascript so I didn't have to install another extension.

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I'd replace this fucker in an instant but that would require me to also upgrade my motherboard, and if I'm doing that, then I might as well upgrade everything else while at it. Also would require a new OS installation and that's just a big fucking hassle to upgrade a CPU that's generally good enough for my needs.

>>57112043
Silence because the only use is jerking off in these threads

htc one m8

still get 5hr sot(albeit with root stuff)
comfy size and shape

>>57111852
I'd like to see your system, does it look cool like the one in the picture?

>>57116246
It's probably an old laptop with a screen like that.

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I never get why people update laptops. All I ever need them for is word processing, watching videos, listening to music and playing runescape. I bought a Thinkpad t61p for 60 dollars and I'll be good until the GPU inevitably shits out (I love the 1920x1200 and can't bring myself to buy a t60 to avoid the faulty gpu). Only reason to upgrade would be to keep up with games and intensive programs but in reality you should be using a desktop for that stuff
> Tl;dr if you spent more than 200 dollars on a laptop you got cucked

>>57114779
>>57115751

Yes I know and non of them have this option.
Let me give you example I'm not interested to sort by creation date or reverse alphabetical order.

You have your downloads folder right
You download
A.jpg
B.jpg
C.jop
Z.jpg
D.jpg

I want it so that the files that are created have this order and I don't get Z.jpg on the end i want D.jpg.

>>57112043
I want this also, better yet some c64 4chan shit poster who can sing his song of how he connects here.

>>57111852

>pentium 3 733 Mhz
>512 mb ram
>vodoo 2 gfx
>250gb hard drive (put in a new one since this was kind of the bottleneck)

runs any relevant program or game as fast as possible

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>>57112043
I heard of people like this they basically have a DOS computer (CRT and all the jazz) to play old DOS games. its basically a DOS game cabinet and they don't trust dosbox or want to have the real deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2v7k-wAm2E

>>57113513
>cs
I had one of these. I will have nightmares tonight about the passive matrix display and seeing trails of anything that moved for times measures in seconds rather than milliseconds.

>>57111852
seems fine to me

the only two things i would ever invest in a high end modern rig for are music and image editing

>>57116497
>RuneScape
Well I can remember upgrading laptops a few times and getting noticeably better RuneScape performance. RuneScape 2, that is, not the original. It was almost unplayable on my first laptop (ThinkPad 770z) with a Pentium II, but quite playable on my second and third laptop (T22 and T23) with a Pentium IIIs. Still, it could get sluggish when there were a lot of other players around, but that was basically solved when I got my T42 with Pentium M. Of course by then I wasn't into RuneScape quite as much and stopped playing entirely not too long after.

>>57116711
What programs do you use?

>>57116497
amen to this brother.
You really don't need something more powerful then a XP era computer to watch video and surf the web.

Unless the manufacturers decide to fuck you over, 4K video might get hard or 8K video.

Or better yet they release IPv8 overnight and everyone needs to use it exclusively + they go over to HTML666 exclusively there are no web browsers for your OS so you need a new OS however no modern OS will install on your hardware so you basically need a new machine.

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>>57115751
>Explorer has allowed you to change how directories are sorted since Win98

Yes and they removed it in Win7!!!!!!
Go microsoft!
Holy shit only masochists are on windows.
its not that Linux is getting better its that windows is getting more shit that your choice is the MS torture dungeon or the penguin torture dungeon and you don't pay for the penguin torture dungeon.

>>57111852
>It can still run all the software I need it to at the same speed it always has,

If you don't use the modern internet, sure. But that thing will get bogged down on a lot of sites these days if you use a standard browser.

I just use the pc of the library. Over the years I learned to keep technology for work only. I do have a smartphone though which was given to me as a gift. But I just use it for comunication only. The problem I have with old hardware is the space it occupies mostly.

>>57116983
Not true if you have a script blocker.

I can't believe /g/ doesn't consider running with ad and script blockers to be the standard mode.

>>57111892
>games worth playing
Fucking nostalgia hipsters...

>>57112586
That sounds awful. Don't you get slowdowns opening more than one tab?

>>57111959
Because it looks like shit, what is with you fucking idiots and black terminal windows for days. There's a reason UI design has improved since the fucking 80's, extremist minimalism doesn't make you cool it makes you look like a faggot.

>>57116625
Sort by the "Date modified" colum instead of "Name" you moron

>>57117032
As someone who uses uMatrix and blocks almost everything by default and has to individually unbreak every website one piece at a time, I know how much blocking things can help.

I also have a lot of experience with browsing the modern internet on very old computers. I was the one who posted above about using a Pentium II machine daily in 2012, and for a few years after that I used a Pentium III machine on a daily basis.

In my experience with that, I found that there were some websites that wouldn't work without allowing CPU-hogging scripts. More of an issue with that, though, I found that loading websites with many images or high resolution images was a more common struggle.

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>>57116965
No they didn't. Sounds like you're too stupid to even use Windows.

>>57117166
>I was the one who posted above about using a Pentium II machine daily in 2012
Oh wait that was actually a different thread, sorry.

But anyway I was daily driving a ThinkPad with a 366Mhz Pentium II and 288MB RAM in 2012. That was long before uBlock and uMatrix so it would've been Firefox with Adblock Plus and NoScript at the time. During my later Pentium III days I started experimenting with more advanced blocking with Policeman, but it wasn't until uMatrix came out that I really embraced selective loading of all things on every website.

>>57113986
Now that is super nice. What panel do you use? What backlight do you have?

>>57117134
Again, you judging things based on your usage.

That guy is really only running two IRC windows. If your thing with computers is IRC or some other text-based usage, why wouldn't you use a load of terminals? Also note the RAM amount on htop. This is clearly just making use out of an old PC since even in 2011 (note the date in the image name) that was a rather small amount.

If someone's computer hobby is IRC, BBS, Usenet, etc. then why would they need any more than a multiplexing terminal?

Really even a Raspberry Pi would be overkill for that.

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>>57117158
You don't understand what date modified is.
Its when the file was actually created you can download files with insane dates like 1980 or 1970 2000 and other combinations this will do nothing for sorting in the order you downloaded.

You can try this for yourself artificially change the modification date of some files however you are to pleb for this.

idiot who only uses computer for facebook detected, can not even sort files.

>>57117032
If you're doing that you're going to break half the sites you visit, and then have to spend a lot of time unbreaking them.

Sounds like a reason to upgrade to me.

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>>57117185
And another date modified retard.
Did you ever even use this option?
Do you even know how it works?

pro tip it will not help you only create chaos.

>>57117540
>>57117464
Date created and date modified (as well as date accessed sometimes) are all different characteristics. The date created is often not sortable, but the date modified is.

The date of creation is internal to the file, the modification date is amended on top of that. The date that it was copied (and this includes downloading) will always be classed as "modified."

Now go and be retarded somewhere else.

>>57111852
if it works for you, it works for you my dude.

i'd probably throw in an SSD just for OS responsiveness and shit.

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>>57117590
You are so funny.

Let me demonstrate.
Take your nicely ordered list of date modified.
Say you need to do some re editing of D.jpg ok.
You save it and BAM the file flies away since you modified it and the ordering is by modification date.

You actually need custom ordering for this. However after XP they killed it of. Not sort by modified date.
It will not help you kido.

So get your sort by modification and stuck it up your ass.
Also loads of fun if you have files that you move into a folder with modification dates of 2015 and they go to the top since all the crap you downloaded is 2016 and you like to have them on the bottom (last added)

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>>57112465
My philosophy is this. And this is something that I live by. And I always have. And I always will. Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what. No matter... where. Or who, or who you are with, or, or where you are going, or... or where you've been... ever. For any reason, whatsoever.

>>57117694
Oh I see the date modified faggot did not respond.
Looks like he realized how retarded he is.

>>57111852
I got an old laptop I snagged from work because the battery died.
20 bucks later I got a new battery and new laptop.
It's some HP model, c2d.

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>>57116091
My system. Btw I play fallout 4 on this.

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>>57119421
Here's a screenshot.

>>57111852
>Core 2 Duo P8400 2.267GHz
>4GB RAM
>160GB HDD (x2)

I have a Thinkpad T400 running Debian with KDE. Still works great. I got rid of my disc tray to add a bay for my second drive. I love this computer.

>>57119991
>KDE
it would work even better if you remove that shit

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isn't really 100% accurate since I'd actually like to swap it out for a 100/200LX if I can get one cheaply, but still, fuck smartphone PIM applications desu

>>57111852
Is that filthy from cigarette smoke? 10/10 oldschool.

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>>57111852
>192 kilobytes RAM
>three 5,25 floppy drives
it's not like any task i do needs more than 192kb of ram anyway
i mean think about it, amount of variables it can remember is simply staggering

>>57121040
>saw a 200LX at a yard sale on Saturday
>didn't buy it because I didn't know if it was at all useful or worth anything

The guy knew his stuff though, he might've wanted more than a "cheap" price for it, but I didn't ask.

>>57111892
>What a silly question to ask.
you're a fag and need to die

otherwise cool use case yo

Oldest device I have is a 2010 17 inch Macbook Pro

>Early i7
>8GB of 1066Mhz Memory
>Shite mobile Nvidia card with 256mb of VRAM
>Replaced stock HDD with SSD

Picked up 2nd hand for £300

On a Dell Latitude D820 with a 1680x1050 screen, a big, 10-keyless keyboard & n i p p l e, 4 GiB of RAM, an Intel Core Duo, and Arch Linux.

It's actually rather nice, but it runs hot.