What is your oldest functioning laptop in use?

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OutlawJoseyWales

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So I'm not talking about the abandoned ones in the corner of the room but ones still in use.

How old is it, what is the OS (anyone still on XP! or is Linux now king), has it been upgraded, what are the specs now.

My Acer ASPIRE 5750G must be going on for about 11 years now.
Upgraded the RAM to 8GB from 4GB which made a huge difference.
Went from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Actually enjoying 10.
New keyboard.
New battery.
Crucial BX500 500GB on the way from Takealot.
And importantly had a dust clean out of the fan and heatsink and thermal repasting. Running quiet and at good temps now.

Considering what I would pay for a laptop that performs like this one does now, I think it was worth the gamble to spend the money on maintenance and upgrading instead of buying a new one.
 
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Dell M4700 from 2012, 32GB RAM, 256GB ssd and 1tb hdd, 1GB gfx card was in regular use up until about 4 years ago. Still works but no one really uses it anymore
 
Lupus said:
Dell M4700 from 2012, 32GB RAM, 256GB ssd and 1tb hdd, 1GB gfx card was in regular use up until about 4 years ago. Still works but no one really uses it anymore
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Yeah would have gone with more RAM but that is its limit.....
 
my one still currently in use is a Dell inspiron 3850 which uses an 8th gen i7 with 16GB ram and ITB SSD and 1TB conventional drive - it originally came with Win 10 Home but when i installed the SSD i put in Win 11 Pro 24H2 - also i gave the machine a new battery

it just cost R900 for the battery and around R1200 for the SSD and R100 for Win 11 pro
 
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Yeah would have gone with more RAM but that is its limit.....
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Yeah maxed it out in 2012, even has the top i7 for it. Was a beast for a long time then games started needing 2gb and more for gfx card :(.
 
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Yeah maxed it out in 2012, even has the top i7 for it. Was a beast for a long time then games started needing 2gb and more for gfx card :(.
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Yeah I was just happy to play older classics like Half-Life 2 and some less power hungry games like Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty.
 
I've got a 10 year old GE70 2PE Apache Pro. It arrived with Windows 8.1, it currently has Windows 10.

It has 16GB of RAM which is beginning to be a little too little when doing dev work sometimes.
The main OS drive is only a 120GB with 1TB secondary (spinny drive).

It's a i7-4710HQ.

It's had the PSU replaced... the battery is toast.

I've been using this as my out and about machine for loooong. When I go to customer sites I take it, when we take a trip I take it.

I recently purchased a new travel machine as we're planning on taking a trip soon and I'll be working during the day. I would have just added more RAM, but it can only take up to 16GB (which it has).
 
I'm starting to think my laptop is older... Yip, turns out it is more like 13 to 14 years old as the release date was 2011.... And I've still got the same original HDD in it...... and Hard Disk Sentinel says it is still in perfect condition.
 
Maybe it makes sense if you're using a laptop that old to run specific software, but surely not for everyday use? A modern entry level setup is probably a lot faster. This is according to ChatGPT and assuming you have an i7:

AspectCeleron N150i7‑2630QM
Cores / Threads4 / 44 / 8 (Hyper‑Threading)
Clock SpeedUp to 3.6 GHz2.0–2.9 GHz (with Turbo)
Multi‑core Score~5,579 PassMark (~58% faster)~3,531 PassMark
Single‑core ScoreStrong (~320 CPU‑Z)Moderate (~several-hundred)
iGPUModern UHD, codecs supportOutdated HD 3000
TDP~6 W (efficient)45 W (power-hungry)
Manufacturing Node7 nm (Intel 7)32 nm

For everyday use even a basic laptop like this would destroy something that old.
 
Ten year old Asus UX305F in regular use running Ubuntu LTS. Approximately 15 year old Lenovo on similar OS that still sees some use.
 
Lenovo Thinkpad from 2017, not really old, but it is near-useless as it has a 6th gen i3, when Intel were in the thick of their core-count stagnation era.
 
My oldest is a Samsung R580. It still works, and it's the only laptop that I would take to sites. The laptop has also survived many bumps, and it does everything that I need it to do.
 
The one that brought me to the forum. Still going. One Hinge broken. Overheating. Display full of dead pixels. Battery dead so needs to be plugged in. But still going.

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2011 MacBook Pro

I don't use it that often anymore as I bought my current personal laptop from my previous employer when I was retrenched.
 
Samsung N150 Netbook with 128Gb SSD Upgrade? Fully functional paper weight.
 
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