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Post by ganews on Apr 24, 2020 15:30:37 GMT -5
Either an ironic or unironic thread title, your choice.
My first PC was the Dell desktop I got for college in summer 2001 running Windows ME. I never had a single problem with it. I begrudgingly installed XP in 2006 because I got my first iPod, and it was the only way I could run iTunes. It kept running without incident until I finished grad school and moved to Maryland in January 2010.
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Post by Not a real doctor on Apr 25, 2020 8:18:50 GMT -5
I bought a Dell Vostro 17" laptop in 2008 (their "small business" line at the time). It originally ran XP, I updated it to Windows 7 in 2015-ish (whenever support for XP stopped), used it for work-work until Fall 2016, and it was still functional as a "watch netflix while I'm on the bike trainer" last winter.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Apr 25, 2020 8:29:29 GMT -5
I bought a Dell Vostro 17" laptop in 2008 (their "small business" line at the time). It originally ran XP, I updated it to Windows 7 in 2015-ish (whenever support for XP stopped), used it for work-work until Fall 2016, and it was still functional as a "watch netflix while I'm on the bike trainer" last winter. My experience with a Vostro was not as good. I got a Vostro 15" in 2009 (originally paid for by the company I was working for, but I bought it from them when I left in 2010), and in 2013, while I was on-site at a customer, the motherboard died. Almost 4 years is not awful, but I would have liked to have been able to go a bit longer. |
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Post by ganews on Apr 30, 2020 11:28:22 GMT -5
For 14 years I drover a 1989 Chevy Caprice that came from my grandmother. The car itself wouldn't quit, but in particular it had an immortal battery. My dad and I changed the battery in 2003/2004, because I was getting the warning light and who knew how old it was. It turned out to be the alternator.
I drove with that battery up and down the east coast, from Orlando to Niagara Falls, until I sold the car in 2015. The alternator only lived until about 2013. I hope that battery is still going, somewhere.
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Crash Test Dumbass
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Apr 30, 2020 14:12:43 GMT -5
My great-grandmother crocheted me a blanket sometime before her death in 1988. I've slept under it nearly every night since at least 1992.
I also realized that I bought most of my instruments in high school or college and they are still going strong over 20 years later, including one that survived two transatlantic trips. I also still have my dad's guitar that my mom got for him in 1978 and took with me when they divorced. It's probably only a little younger than I am, but apparently the company didn't keep good serial number records in the late 70s.
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Trurl
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Post by Trurl on May 3, 2020 8:24:13 GMT -5
I have a "waiter's friend" that I bought at an LC in the mid-80s that's outlasted every other corkscrew I've ever owned.
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Tellyfier
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Post by Tellyfier on May 4, 2020 3:09:47 GMT -5
The Gal has a fairly new toaster. It's quite fancy with a lot of knobs and controls, made by a brand usually known for good quality of their products. Wasn't cheap either. And. It. Sucks. Can't make two unburned toasts in a row, the knobs and controls do nassing! So when we threw our household together this is where I put my foot down and the awful thing is banned to the basement. Instead we now use mine:  Ladies and Gentlemen, behold the Rowenta Toast Automat! It was built in the mid 1960's and makes perfect toast for the Savalas family in 2020. |
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Post by ganews on May 4, 2020 10:59:48 GMT -5
I can't claim that longevity, but I am still using the same $20 toaster oven I bought in 2002 for my first apartment. Clean the crumb trap once in a blue moon, it's good to go. Come to think of it, that's the only appliance I have owned that long which is still functional.
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