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Originally Posted by 6charlong
I know what you mean. I’m still playing Infocom games that I first bought in the 1980s. I no longer rush into the games. Now I wander into the mazes Infocom constructed and just play around.
On the other hand, I don’t know how many Windows machines I’ve had fail on me. I finally gave my last one to my wife and got a Mac Mini. The last time I was in Costco I looked at a Windows 8 laptop and only shook my head. My wife refuses to dump that old Windows Vista machine and get a Mac even though it’s crashing almost every day now. It was upgraded to Windows 7 a couple of years back in an attempt to make it behave itself but if you’ve ever tried to reinstall Windows from disks 2 or 3 versions back, you will understand why she keeps pulling the plug to get it to restart instead of reinstalling.
There is a case to be made for junking old stuff, too.
Now then, if you’re talking about eReaders, I have to admit that Kobo has seduced me with its brilliant implementation of The Book. Like Amazon they are working to make the hardware disappear and succeeding: the Kobo Aura HD is the best reading experience I’ve had.
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My Palm Treo finally died so I recently got a Samsung Note II. Works great as an eReader although I had to hunt to find software I liked as well as MobiPocket. I'm still learning how to do other stuff on it. It took over a year before I really knew how to work with my Palm, I see no reason the learning curve for Android should be shorter.
As for computers (and I suspect it'll be true of Android too) lifespan depends more on what you do with them than on the OS. I had a Windows 98 system I used for probably 7 or 8 years. Rebooted it maybe three times/year. But one thing I didn't do was try out a lot of new software on it. I had my production software & that's what I used. It was solid and stayed that way. I could probably still be using it today if I hadn't run out of HD space. (I'll note that as a tech I had multiple PCs-and I did mess up my testbeds regularly trying out new hardware & software. But my production PC I kept stable. And that, I think, is the great thing about Macs-they're so hard to upgrade that people don't mess them up trying new stuff.)