[CentOS] (OT) Computer seems to have died

[Warren Young]

On Jan 4, 2016, at 8:37 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, January 4, 2016 6:18 pm, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 1/4/2016 4:03 PM, tdukes at palmettoshopper.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have an old IBM Netvista.
>> 
>> 10 to 15 years old?    its 5 to 10 years past expected EOL.      You got
>> your moneys worth.
> 
> Hm. I had to retire a few 10 years old servers and a few 13 years old
> workstations. But they still were alive (what a shame to retire something
> that still works!)

I don’t think John is saying that on the first day of the machine’s sixth year that thou shalt throw the machine away.

Rather, be happy that it gave well over the 3-5 year use life you should have budgeted for from the start.

Between the lower power draw of the replacement over its expected lifetime, the time taken to diagnose it, the parts required to fix it, and the time required to replace those parts, you’ve probably spent more than the cost of a new machine.

That leaves out the increased productivity from running on a faster, more featureful machine.