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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Ah, our old friend built-in obsolescence
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Not inaccurate.
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Was just about to say something to this effect. For hardware, planned obsolescence is pretty much the whole business model.
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7 years old? Normally around 4 to 5 years needs upgrade, but that depends on the work.
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true dat!
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Still, your IT team could have waited with the full machine replacement until one of those proprietary parts actually breaks.
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For 7 years, we'd replace for the same reason... cheaper to get something entirely new in many cases (and less of a headache for IT).
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Learned this the hard way trying to help a friend replace a failed power supply in a not-very-old Dell. FrankenPCs for me, thanks.
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Vers much so. Same story in the datacenter where even more/ bigger ressources are affected...
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Planned obsolescence once more. Is there an industry/company that doesn't do this?
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