Comment Every ten years (Score 1) 408
I bought my last PC after a ten year cycle and the next one is heading that way the basic thought went
When they bring out a standard dual-CPU set up I'll upgrade
When they bring out a single chip dual-core set-up I'll upgrade
When the bring out a single chip dual-core 64 bit set-up I'll upgrade
When I can get 8GB of RAM I'll upgrade
3 years ago I got to the stage where my 400Mhz Pentium II was struggling even with DSL to do some of the video editing requirements I had. So into the breach and a 64 bit/dual core box was mine.
Now I'm into the
When SSDs are over 500GB
When I can have >16 cores
When I can stuff 24 GB of RAM into it
Or to put it another way I'm now waiting for the next Mac Pro
As a techy my home machine is always behind the curve because I tune it and keep it clean.
At work however my upgrade schedule is about 9 months as I go through laptops in a brutal manner. This also means that it satisfies my tech lust (ooooh Shiny MacBook Pro) without me having to pay for it.