Re: Hardware life expectancy

2021-07-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/25/21 6:38 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: . . . Nowadays, I'm still planning to use that same Thinkpad X30 to display PDFs in the classroom (when I get to meet students physically again), and more than half of my machine are older than 10 years old. Better yet, they don't seem significantly slowe

Hardware life expectancy (was: Please help to test latest Debian 11 release candidate on real hardware)

2021-07-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Should I participate if my laptop is 10 years old? I fondly remember showing my 2003 Thinkpad X30 to my students when it turned 10 years old. Given that I grew up in the glory days of Dennard scaling, the standard rule of thumb was that you wanted a new machine every 3 years or so and a machine