So my (very capable!) IT team at work has kinda forced me to replace my desktop (7 years old, end of lifecycle by policy). I get their reasoning for the policy but it was working just fine as far as I'm concerned! Does your workplace have an end-of-life age for desktops?
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Replying to @zeynep
Probably (I buy new ones annually, for reasons), but I’d guess it has more to do with the loss of OS vendor or hardware OEM support for the hardware & its drivers.
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Replying to @rossgrady @zeynep
I will say that having done deskside support for years, I’d much rather inconvenience someone within their schedule with a new machine than to have to deal with a frantic customer whose power supply or hard drive failed catastrophically on their ancient machine.
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Replying to @rossgrady
yeah sure though we have full backup, I also have a laptop with dock (that's on my treadmill desk!) and I'd have happily sign a "I promise to wait a week when this thing goes kaput!" promise but I get that this doesn't scale. Was just curious especially re:environmental impact.
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Replying to @zeynep
The impact question makes me wonder whether orgs who support Chromebooks have a different timeline, since I'd assume their specs stay pretty consistent over time. But they're also built on the cheap & thus I doubt any of them last even 4-5 years.
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I think at least one of my chromebooks is 5 years old. 
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