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Poll: How old is your current working computer? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How old is your current working computer?".
This poll was originally submitted by Julianne Rowland
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This poll was originally submitted by Julianne Rowland
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A forum topic will appear each time a new poll is run. For more information, see: http://proz.com/topic/33629 ▲ Collapse
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bookwormkt
Local time: 22:11
French to English
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| My working computer is a Mac, about 2 years young! | Dec 21, 2009 |
Like most Mac users, I LOVE my Mac!!! It is totally reliable.
My non-Mac laptop needs ANOTHER repair, so I am managing with my less-than-a month-old MSI Wind netbook.
I have had a very busy term with my salaried post, so haven't done much translation work recently
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Interlangue (X)
Angola
Local time: 23:11
English to French
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I just got a new one 6 months ago. The 2 previous ones (desktop and laptop) were over 5 years old - more than I thought: I usually buy a new one every 2 or 3 years but the old computers are always recycled (private use, friends, spare parts, etc.)
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| Less than 1 year :-) | Dec 21, 2009 |
Just had a crash here and bought a new one... snif* I was so happy with the old one...
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9 months old, after my old one (6 years and upgraded a couple of years later) became too wobbly to trust.
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Mary Worby 
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:11
German to English
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Less than a year, about five months to be precise. Old one was four years old, getting slow and making me nervous!
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Susi Giaroli
Italy
Local time: 23:11
French to Italian
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5 months. My old one was about 3 years old. I usually change computer every 3 years...
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Tim Drayton
Cyprus
Local time: 00:11
Turkish to English
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I do not really know because it was refurbished when I bought it about three years ago.
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keelin feeney
Ireland
Local time: 22:11
Member (2007)
Spanish to English
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My computer is 4 years old and my laptop is 3 years old. The laptop is still running fabulously though my computer tends to slow down after being on for about 7 hours...I am on a cleanup and delete mission lately but I won't give it much more than another year if the problem persists.
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DianeGM
Local time: 00:11
Member (2006)
Dutch to English
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| Other .. brand spanking .... | Dec 21, 2009 |
Christmas present to/from my business self.
Second laptap (just over a year old) & desktop (old reliable - 2 years old but constantly bening upgraded)
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Amy Duncan (X)
Brazil
Local time: 18:11
Portuguese to English
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I switched to Mac at the end of 2007 after many, many years of using (and struggling with) a variety of PCs, always having to have repairs, dealing with crashes, viruses, etc. I finally got fed up and bought a MacBook. I love my MacBook and will never go back to PCs. It's going strong after two years and I expect to keep it for a lot longer.
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Angela Dickson (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:11
French to English
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| Less than 1 year | Dec 21, 2009 |
My 6-year-old desktop (nearly everything had been upgraded, so it was a bit like George Washington's axe) was finally starting to struggle to run the modern software I wanted to use, so I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre tower six months ago, keeping all my peripherals and monitors. I'm very pleased with it.
My Thinkpad T60 laptop is getting on for 3 years old now and runs just fine, especially since I defragmented the hard drive last week.
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got a new laptop in june. THe old one was getting slow and I really needed something new. I'd saved up the money and found a good deal. I love it!
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| Got a new one after many many years | Dec 21, 2009 |
I'm still waiting for the few last components for my new PC to arrive via mail. My last computer, which I purchased back in 2003, blew up a few months ago... again.
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| around six months | Dec 21, 2009 |
I get a new computer each year, as I use it for EVERYTHING. I work on it about 10 hours per day seven days per week, I do all admin on it, watch films on it (instead of a DVD-player, or buy streaming films), I watch TV-programs on it and do my work out following downloaded programs... As the computer is on so much of the time it starts to feel a bit old when it is a year old.
I always keep the second oldest one to use in case there is some temporary technical problem with my comput... See more I get a new computer each year, as I use it for EVERYTHING. I work on it about 10 hours per day seven days per week, I do all admin on it, watch films on it (instead of a DVD-player, or buy streaming films), I watch TV-programs on it and do my work out following downloaded programs... As the computer is on so much of the time it starts to feel a bit old when it is a year old.
I always keep the second oldest one to use in case there is some temporary technical problem with my computer, at the moment we have several old PC:s at home waiting to be cleaned by an expert before I dare throw them away (fearing that someone could reconstruct the content in case I sold them or in any other way handed them over to an unknown destiny). ▲ Collapse
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