Is there any way I could turn this into a sticker (would go on my old ThinkPad T540p)?
“All I can really do anymore is browse the Internet and maybe stream some music.”
“And that’s enough for me, old friend.”
It’s the opposite for me. Using a modern browser is a real struggle, but running old games, watching DVDs and listening to MP3s? As good as ever!
That comic must be 10 years old, because 10 years old laptops these days would be drawn ripped and making pushups
10 years old would be 7th Gen Intel which is perfectly capable.
For anyone else budget conscious: you can get excellent laptops by looking for an 8th gen Intel laptops in pristine condition on eBay for <£150. This will be perfect for daily use, web, office, etc. If you need gaming then get a used Steam Deck OLED. This is suitable computing for a huge number of people’s usecase.
If you are in the USA and are on public assistance, then https://pcsrefurbished.com/sales/salesHome is a great place, especially for laptops. My last laptop from here is a HP Zbook 15 Fury G8 with a Nvidia RTX A2000 for $175.
Older thinkpads are still a great deal too. Just have to stick to the actual business ones and not the consumer ones.
My home server has a 12 year old cpu, and that bad boy just keeps chugging along running 24/7.
I just lost my ATI X1950XT yesterday after I bumped it installing a replacement HDD into my home servers raid cluster. RIP 20 year old GPU, you had a commendable service life
Mine’s a 2006 HP Z600 workstation, proudly serving punk rock and The Room (2003) 24/7 on demand to me and me only, because neither my family or my friends want punk rock or The Room (2003)
Anyway, how’s your sex life?
Ha ha ha! What a story, Swab!
Don’t worry about it
my PC is a 2013 HP. 4 years ago I got fancy and bought a gtx 1070ti. both are enough for me and have been running well.
Nine year old CPU in mine, even hosting Minecraft servers for 10+ people with zero issues.
I’m still sad the mobo for my i7 920 died. That CPU was a beast. Maybe one day I’ll get a 1366 server mobo and set it up as a NSA.
Same but mine’s a 2011 Mac mini with Ubuntu
I love how affectionate this comic is. I’m really feeling for the old laptop, but I’m feeling the appreciation and understanding from the human
He’s just a little guy doin his best!
This was a great way to write out the feelings I had. Just so wholesome
I put Linux mint on my 2016 laptop. It runs great.
2016? But the comic said ten year old lapto… Fuck
It keeps getting worse, too. The nineties wasn’t that long ago. I swear.
Just one decade or sth.
…
Right?
10 year old isn’t that old - 20 is the new 10
Plug your old laptops into your living room TV, buy a wireless mouse/keyboard combo, and you’ve got the ultimate media machine that you have full control over. I always do this whenever I move.
I’ve thought about how any old pc would blow all those proprietary devices out of the water with their flexibility to play anything, any format, any source. And I’ve also thought I currently have too many old laptops. No idea how I didn’t put two and two together until your comment. Thank you!
Yeah, but maybe remove the battery if the thing can run without it just on mains power. Leaving a battery plugged in (especially an old one) is not the best idea.
I do have a used ThinkPad what I bought out from my workplace for dirt cheap. Maybe it’s time to look into buying a TV.
Somebody give that poor thing Linux already! D:
Laptop afterwards: From the moment I understood the weakness of the batch, it disgusted me.
Where there is service, there is life.
My 12 year old Hackintosh MBP is doing great with Ubuntu. Mid-2014 machine and it’s still my daily driver!
My stock 2016 MacBook is still running strong.
I recently revived an old EEEPC 1005P. I put Antix Linux on it and it’s totally usable.
Firefox needed some tweaks (specifically reducing the process count) to make it run somewhat decently. It still doesn’t do Youtube, but it works fine enough for programming in Kate, doing terminal stuff and other simple native apps. Electron apps are a bit of a pain on that thing.
It’s a really nice little on-the-go device that I use to work on my hobby projects on the train when commuting to work. Super small, super light, 8h battery life.
Ah YouTube ain’t worth it anymore anyway.
Looks so pleasant in the last panel like “awwwwyiss, still got it~”
My laptop I bought new in 2012 is running my Jellyfin server. And working great.
Someone else’s old windows 7 laptop for mine. Works perfectly.
I put Linux on mine because Windows 7 quit working on it years ago.
It has Linux now but I don’t know exactly how old it is so I call it by its original os
I’ve got 3 Thinkpad 420s (nice) - released 2011ish - that I got for free last summer. They all run Linux Mint now. One runs Jellyfin, one runs Sonarr and Radarr, one runs Jackett and Transmission. Works great!
This is an upgrade from the 2010 Dell, which was free from a friend with no working screen and missing 5 keys that I had running all of that.
My main laptop is 11 years old.
poor old fan noises
They’re not old, they’re veterans, and probably running fine
Meanwhile I had 2 year old Segotep case fans start to rattle on startup
It runs okay, but starts to rattle under load and at random times.
I tried to get the fan replaced but couldn’t find a replacement, in local stores or second hand parts market. I looked at online retailers but they wouldn’t ship to my country. lol
Damn :-/
10? I’m using a 14 year old laptop for school and it gets through it quite well, even the original battery still does 3 hours.
Words of wisdom from my father, an engineer:
“The computer isn’t any slower than the day you bought it. Only your expectations of it have changed.”
It’s not the hardware that’s the issue. The software keeps getting slower and more bloated because most programmers don’t know how to write well optimized code anymore.
No, they definitely do know how to write faster software. They’re just not paid for that. They’re paid to write software faster, that’s all.
That falls under the category of “expectations.” Run software contemporary to your machine and it’ll fly just as fast as it ever did. Go ahead, slap Windows 98 on that bad boy.
This is a lot more true now than it was in the olden days of hard drive fragmentation and rapidly increasing minimum spec requirements. (For instance the computer my family bought in 1996 had a mind blowing 16mb of ram, Win ME released in 1999 with a 32mb RAM requirement.)
My C-64 still boots up instantly, just as it did on day one. Far faster than Windows could ever dream.
Surpised the capacitors havent borked. You are lucky it runs.
Ten years? Up until recently I had a Core2Duo with 1GB RAM running Qobus in as a jukebox in the bedroom. But now he’s gone, off to a better place, where he can finally rest. By which I mean I upgraded to 4GB and installed at a relative’s house running Home Assistant.
I had a Core2Quad with 4GB of RAM as my home server until about 2 years ago. Home Assistant is what finally overloaded it. (I have a fairly large setup with a ton of integrations.)
Upgraded the desktop, now the old desktop is the server. I think it’s already 10 years old.
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