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juansolo

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Re: Death of a Powermac
« Reply #15 on: January 01, 2012, 09:55:14 AM »
Man apples dont last at all.

My dad has had an old PC for about 10-15 years now and its still going strong without a single hardware failure.

Granted its slow and cr@p now but it's still running

Sad thing is that the powermac was a Quad G5, 7 years down the line and was still blindingly fast (so it bloody should have been, cheap it was not!). Certainly didn't feel old. I've been kinda lucky with them to be honest, this is the first mac I've had actually die on me and I've had them since the OS8 days. It had run solidly almost every single day for 7 years. In terms of life-cycle, that's actually pretty good. The life-cycle of enterprise (business) level stuff is around that long. I can't complain.
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