I don’t know whether to admire you or feel sorry for you… nope, I’d have to go with “feeling sorry for” 🙂

Kidding, but my computers get a lot of use, I’d suspect more than yours do. So a five or six year old computer in my house (one of the machines going to the recycle place is 8 years old, one of the monitors is 12…) is really getting kind of tired.

Another way to think of it… I believe I once read that the third largest airforce in the world was the American “mothball” fleet. The American military’s need to have the latest and greatest means that they are continuously removing incredibly advanced aircraft from service. Other countries are often almost able to save up enough to buy whatever it is the American’s removed from service as “out of date” a few years ago. My computer situation is kind of like that 🙂