I have a POS wireless mouse given to me by a contracting agency in 2004, that still works fine. I traveled with that thing for years.
I think I'm done with Logitech anything, and they were my go-to for lots of stuff since the late 90's.
BearOfaTime
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(But we're still doing it, shhh)
I've never had a problem, running machines for 10 years at a time.
But... I suspect it could easily happen if the cooler wasn't sufficient or the thermal paste broke down, or the system ran at high CPU for some time.
I'm gonna go check the paste on my old desktop now...
OP, as others have said, power is a big issue.
I have two boxes at home, a 10 year old desktop, and a 4 year old SFF (small form factor). The SFF idles at about 12 watts, with 3 drives in it (2.5", RAID 5). The desktop idles at 120w with 2 drives in it. With more drives it idles at 200w.
I use the desktop as a duplicate of the SFF, but it only runs for 1 hour overnight for sync to occur (I also have cloud backup via storj.io).
The desktop ran with 2 drives for years, my electricity cost was about $1 per day. That pretty much doubles with the new multi drive setup (which is why it only runs once a day).
Power efficiency is a real concern, so paying for a newer computer is likely worth it. My long term plan is to build a new system periodically, both for power but also because hardware eventually dies.
Exactly.
Energy is a big deal, and new NUC-type machines are pretty good deals.
if they made this ad network an opt-in with a proper explanation, many people would have opted in. Not everyone, but many would have. And their reputation would not have been sullied.
Bingo!
Let me tell my management they no longer have to pay windows license for the ~10,000 user machines, and then the servers.
While a single consumer can get away with it (and MS doesn't care because it means they're using Windows and likely using MS services, all while getting telemetry from the desktops), it's far from "nobody buys a windows license any more".
Even SMB's will pay, because if they don't MS will hammer them financially. No SMB could stand up to what MS can do to them - $200 windows license is cheap insurance.
And I wouldn't call it serious, the performance is atrocious.
It's so bad I went and installed outlook from 2016
Hahahaha, right, right.
I think many of them don't even know how to use Windows.
I don't see most of these problems using Windows Pro - it affects Home versions. There's a reason I make my family pay for a Pro license.
Ah, yes, the insult retort.
I'm convinced, let's packup and go home boys, we don been told.
Please allow me to retort: You have no idea what it means to manage even an SMB, let alone an Enterprise with thousands of machines.
Tell me, Sir Open Source, what CAD options are there in the OSS world that competes with Catia or Autodesk and their management servers?
Show me a cost analysis for a 10 user SMB to switch them from Windows to Linux, and the ROI before they return to running in the black. Don't forget to include the lost productivity and the retraining costs.
Now, how about a Linux box that can run CNC hardware... I'll wait.
$2 to produce.
Buying stuff direct from China or South Korea, you get to see just how much they tack on for profit.