>let us say they ll last 4 more years

Why not 50 more years if we're just making up numbers? I still have an IBM thinkpad from 2006 in my possession with everything working. I also see people with Macbooks from the era with the light up apple logo in the wild and at DJs.

>A PI would last a lot longer.

Because you say so? OK, sure.

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qsera 7 hours ago | parent [-]

In your comment you didn't say Apple computers or Thinkpads. Those are different. I was talking about plain old vanilla business class laptop (because we are talking about raspberry alternative).

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joe_mamba 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You're contradicting yourself

	▲	qsera 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I was referring to your original comment >I can buy on the used market a ~2018 laptop with a 15W quad core CPU, 8GB RAM, 256 NVME and 1080p IPS display, that's orders of magnitude more capable..

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close04 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have computers that are ~20 years or even more and still work fine. My main computer which I just replaced is ~14 years old (with some components even older than that), was used every single day, and is now a perfectly functioning server. I have stacks of SFFs and minipcs from eBay going back to 2008 but most from 2012-2015, which have been running virtually uninterrupted for a decade, and still working fine. I have several laptops from different OEMs, business and consumer lines, that are as old as 2008 and have been used regularly for at least 10 years, all still fine.

I understand what you're saying but saying it isn't enough. There's nothing to support your claim.