One Year of Up Time to Celebrate My Computer's 10th Birthday

[Kavik]

I already know this is pointless, but it's mildly interesting.

I ordered my eMachines computer from Newegg on 9/9/2009, ten years ago Monday. Coincidentally, the last time I booted the computer was 9/9/2018, so, about six months ago, I thought, "Why not let it run a whole year as a victory lap for its tenth birthday?" Well, here we are. My computer has been turned on for one year straight, and it just had its tenth birthday (although, Newegg didn't ship it until the 16th or 17th, so I didn't receive it for a while afterwards). I finally rebooted it last night to install the pending Windows Updates. Since I have an uninterruptible power supply, I was able to keep this computer running through two rearrangements of my office.

This PC is a horribly slow, bargain bin POS. It served its purpose when I got it, but I only use it as a media server now, mostly to record over-the-air TV.

Screencap of boot time:

[tp4tissue]

Tp4 had an emachine back in 2002-ish,  they were a quite popular budget brand, Tp4 got it from circuit city.

[Kavik]

Tp4 had an emachine back in 2002-ish,  they were a quite popular budget brand, Tp4 got it from circuit city.

I bash it now, but it served me well from about 2009-2012. It originally came with Vista and crashed constantly; free Win7 upgrade made it work great.

Not sure what happened: around 2012-2013, it became unusably slow as a PC, even after upgrading RAM (albeit only from 2GB to 4GB), adding an SSD, and reinstalling Windows. So I just stuck a 1TB drive in it and use it to record and stream TV, which it does fine.

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Only time I ever went into Circuit City was during its going out of business sale to scout video games on clearance  )

[Sintpinty]

Welp, happy birthday to your computer

[suicidal_orange]

Impressive!  At what age will it be allowed to retire?

[_rubik]

A year of uptime is cool, but a 10 YEAR OLD MACHINE pulling that double duty and still in operation is even more impressive.

I'm trying to use my laptop for as long as I can to prove that we don't need to upgrade our hardware with every new release of shiny aluminum -- that's only 5 years old! Hopefully it's still running after 10.

[Sintpinty]

Can it rest now

[Kavik]

A year of uptime is cool, but a 10 YEAR OLD MACHINE pulling that double duty and still in operation is even more impressive.

I'm trying to use my laptop for as long as I can to prove that we don't need to upgrade our hardware with every new release of shiny aluminum -- that's only 5 years old! Hopefully it's still running after 10.

My wife got a laptop in 2007 that died shortly after she got it (the HDD failed, but she didn't know that and just stuck it in a corner for five years). In 2013, I revived it with a new HDD, but it was horribly slow in Win XP and Linux Mint (it literally took ten seconds for the start menu to appear after clicking it), so I threw an SSD in it, and it was like a whole new machine (start menu response was instant with the SSD). We used it until 2017, I believe. The only reason we stopped using it is that her cousin split Gatorade on it, which killed it. The only thing it sucked at even with the SSD was playing HD video. Now I'm using a Thinkpad from 2011. All that to say, old stuff still works!

Impressive!  At what age will it be allowed to retire?

Whenever it dies probably  ) I have a feeling the PSU is the component that will crap out first since it's a no-name 220 watt. In fact, I'm surprised it hasn't blown up yet.

[Rob27shred]

Tp4 had an emachine back in 2002-ish,  they were a quite popular budget brand, Tp4 got it from circuit city.

e-machines! What a throwback, those things were like cheap little plastic tanks. Slow AF & cumbersome as all hell, but try to kill it!

[tp4tissue]

Tp4 had an emachine back in 2002-ish,  they were a quite popular budget brand, Tp4 got it from circuit city.

e-machines! What a throwback, those things were like cheap little plastic tanks. Slow AF & cumbersome as all hell, but try to kill it!

Mine was mostly metal, it was the generic type casing back then, thick gauge metal with plastic front bezel.

It even haz DVD-RW.. w00000000.......   Ran dat WARCRAFT 3 like Voice^highpitch::  Buttttaahhh..