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Subject:Re: Some hardware is durable From:Phil Snow Leopard <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com> To:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> Date:Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:40:26 +0700
Is this a Friday thread? If so, then I'll let my hair down on this one....
I still have a working Acorn Archimedes A5000 from 1990. Aside from a bit of discolouration on the keyboard, it works as well as it did twenty-two years ago.
I also have an 2004 Mac iBook which was 'passed down' to my toddlers in 2009. Oh, its battered and bruised, but it still boots and does everything it was made capable of doing in 2004 despite their attempts to destroy it. Trackpad works, screen works, keyboard works (after I persuaded them to stop pulling the plastic keys off...) , wifi works, its just too underpowered for today's usage.
On the other hand, I have a mid-2009 MacBook Pro under my fingers right now; the DVD drive is kaput, the power supply is dodgy, the card reader port intermittently quits, the trackpad only works on 'tap' (I haven't been able to 'click' it since early 2010); I'm not sure it's going to last the year, tbh... :(
Lament and nostalgia, must time for a Friday jug... :)
On 18 Nov 2011, at 23:16, Dan Goldstein wrote:
> 11 years ago, we bought two English/Hebrew PC keyboards and started
> using the first one. It has been pummeled for 11 years by a family of
> five (and their friends): sugared-up teenagers playing video games,
> angry parents answering obnoxious e-mails, thumb-sucking toddlers, and
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> This week, one of the little plastic tabs that prop up the keyboard in
> back broke off, so we started using the second keyboard.
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