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How old is your oldest daily-use development machine?

Survey period: 30 Nov 2015 to 7 Dec 2015

We're not talking about the dusty one in the corner you need to keep alive for legacy software. We mean a machine you use in your daily programming.

OptionVotes% 
0 - 3 months713.78
4 - 6 months754.00
7 - 12 months1316.98
1 - 2 years32817.47
2 - 3 years37419.93
3 - 4 years40321.47
5-7 years35919.13
7 - 10 years955.06
Older than 10 years412.18



 
Generaljust upgraded macbook Pin
Dennis E White4-Dec-15 4:57
professionalDennis E White4-Dec-15 4:57 
General4yrs Dell M6600 32GB, Win 7 Pro x64, and DUAL 1TB SSD Drives Pin
Kirk 103898211-Dec-15 13:22
Kirk 103898211-Dec-15 13:22 
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PSU Steve2-Dec-15 3:18
professionalPSU Steve2-Dec-15 3:18 
General2 yrs Pin
User 41802541-Dec-15 3:56
User 41802541-Dec-15 3:56 
GeneralIntel dinosaur Pin
Gary Wheeler1-Dec-15 0:59
Gary Wheeler1-Dec-15 0:59 
GeneralOld Dell - XP Vista Win7 Pin
  Forogar  30-Nov-15 9:37
professional  Forogar  30-Nov-15 9:37 
GeneralDell Inspi-Ron w/ I-3 6GB ram Pin
Ron Anders30-Nov-15 3:26
Ron Anders30-Nov-15 3:26 
General3 (how long I've had it) or 4 (when the model was released) Pin
Dan Neely30-Nov-15 3:17
Dan Neely30-Nov-15 3:17 
I'm nominally slated for a life cycle replacement in another year; but if my computer lasts that long before being replaced it'll be the first time in 10 years : 1x each OS rot and no current image for the model I had, free upgrade because the interns needed better hand me down laptops to run W10, I needed a bigger HDD and bitlocker made cloning onto a new drive a PITA. (Or so I was told anyway; I never saw an explanation for why a block level clone couldn't be performed by a disk duper on the encrypted drive, with the partition then expanded when the replacement was put into my laptop).

At home I replaced my '08 vintage I7-920 with an i7-4790k earlier this spring (good timing on my part; the old one died over the summer).

The oldest computer I've got access to is a Dell Optiplex GX1p (P2 based) that I officially keep around because one of our customers has never been willing to actually say "yes we scrapped all the NT4 boxes your software used to run on". Unofficially, I still have it because we're not supposed to have more than 2 monitors for our main computer (this is an idiotic constraint, the cage is packed with spares) so it 'owns' my 3rd screen, and because I find the dual Y2K pass stickers on its beige front amusing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

General15 year old Windows NT 4.0 box 1Ghz Pentium 256 Meg of RAM 25 Gb HDD. No .NET subsystem whatsoever Pin
steveb30-Nov-15 3:13
mvesteveb30-Nov-15 3:13 
GeneralJo mile uspe gujara kar lete hai bhai... Pin
RhishikeshLathe30-Nov-15 3:00
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Nelek30-Nov-15 4:28
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Nelek1-Dec-15 22:31
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Mohibur Rashid2-Dec-15 13:02
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W Balboos, GHB3-Dec-15 2:31
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Zafar Sultan3-Dec-15 21:02
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RhishikeshLathe8-Dec-15 19:59
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Zafar Sultan8-Dec-15 20:35
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RhishikeshLathe9-Dec-15 20:30
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RhishikeshLathe8-Dec-15 19:34
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GeneralJo mile upset Gujarat car late hay Bhaji Pin
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RhishikeshLathe8-Dec-15 19:29
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