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Thread #141971 Message #3269707
Posted By: GUEST,Jon
07-Dec-11 - 05:32 AM
Thread Name: How often to buy a new 'puter?For non-techie folks
Subject: RE: Tech: How often to buy a new 'puter?
On the cost side, I guess we average about £200 per "replacement" (I might keep drives and/or case and psu) and three of us contribute so say about £70 each per year on desktop PCs.
We have no software costs but there can be other expenses, eg. my monitor packed in this year, my UPS needs replacing (unless I decide to fit a pair of new batteries - I'm a bit nervous of doing that with this one), we bought an Ethernet type tuner card for the mythtv system this year, etc.
For disposal, if I have or can assemble from good parts we have a complete unit, I put afresh Linux install on it and give it away.