<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>> Can you explain? I've always made do with used, hand-me-down or craigslist-sourced computers and have never to my knowledge discarded one because a software program became obsolete. Other unfortunate and almost certainly unnecessary product life shortening occurrences precipitated computer replacements, but they were in all cases hardware related (I think). Am I missing something?<br><br>Yes, you are missing a big part of the picture. Most computers are replaced not due to any faulty part, but software issues (Alan's complaint about incompatibility is essentially a software issue). </div><br>A lot of people on Craigslist/ebay are selling "refurbished" computers - that simply meant the OS was reinstalled. I don't even buy second hand, all my equipment is from people dumping stuff at eCycling events.<br><br>Two words to get Alan
ranting again: Planned Obselence<br><br>~sanjay <br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><br><br></div>
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