Computers can live without major component failures for around 3 to 5 years, but, that's not the whole story because the user is part of the equation.
As long as a computer is working fine it will last as long as you are prepared to live with it.
What I mean is, it depends what you are doing with it - for example if you were a novelist who used his computer for word processing, then, speed and graphics would not be an issue.
Now if you are into using application that were hungry for processing power or high demand graphics, like Finite Element Analysis or gaming then you would quickly be looking for faster more powerful machines.
The power to cost ratio of machines, governed to some degree by Moore's Law, tends to result in a constant growth in the performance of computers with a general reduction in relative costs. The upshot of this means that consumers will tend, over time, to change their machine more often!
It can last even 10 years or more if you treat it well (protect it with a security suite, scan and check HDD regularly, clean up unnecessary files and folders regularly, don't install too many programs)and don't pretend to play the last generation games.
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Computers can live without major component failures for around 3 to 5 years, but, that's not the whole story because the user is part of the equation.
As long as a computer is working fine it will last as long as you are prepared to live with it.
What I mean is, it depends what you are doing with it - for example if you were a novelist who used his computer for word processing, then, speed and graphics would not be an issue.
Now if you are into using application that were hungry for processing power or high demand graphics, like Finite Element Analysis or gaming then you would quickly be looking for faster more powerful machines.
The power to cost ratio of machines, governed to some degree by Moore's Law, tends to result in a constant growth in the performance of computers with a general reduction in relative costs. The upshot of this means that consumers will tend, over time, to change their machine more often!
It can last even 10 years or more if you treat it well (protect it with a security suite, scan and check HDD regularly, clean up unnecessary files and folders regularly, don't install too many programs)and don't pretend to play the last generation games.
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Well depends, a month is your visit some wierd porn site and get a virus, 20 years if you buy it and dont use it
regular use for email and stuff 10 years and it slows to a snail crawl even if you reinstall os
it depends on how you use your computer ..regular maintenance would make your pc's performance good as new
>by performing a regular antivirus scan
>by running a disk cleanup and disk defrag
>avoid also too many reformats for your pc, frequent reformat may damage your harddisk
>clean your pc, via a blower (not the hair blower but the one like used in cars )
9 years, 3 months, 11 days, 18 hours and 55 minutes.
Happy now?
depends on how you use it... online/off line....
I have an old computer that still runs on DOS (disk operating system). and uses 3.5 inch square disks and 5" floppy disks.
I have an old IBM PC that is about 30 years old that still works.
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