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Sometimes, an upgrade will do it - new graphics card, more ram, or an SSD can work wonders.
And an upgrade generally is a lot quicker than trying to get a new machine set up with all the right software, setup the way you like. For example, it normally takes me about an hour just to force Visual Studio to put my panes in the right place (and even then it generally gets the order wrong in the stacks...  ) Don't even get me started on Corel Paint shop pro... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I hate PaintShop Pro... Just when you learn a new UI, they go and change it on you.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I really loved Paintshop Pro when it was Jasc-owned, and stick with V9 for years.
But...it didn't play nice with Aero, so I "upgraded" to Corel V6 - and sure enough it's been Corelised: slower, more bugs, lots of useless features...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I keep an old machine running XP just for PSP v9 (and some other things like supporting an old scanner that works great but is now "obsolete") because I got the Corel version on free trial, and then dumped it!
The XP machine hasn't been updated in a couple of years and yet manages to keep working very well - who would have thought it? (hint: I would). I don't connect to the interweb with that machine, just networked disk access. On that machine XP can live forever!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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OriginalGriff wrote: a lot quicker than trying to get a new machine set up
Yup++;
Take's me roughly three after-work days to set up a box at home; laptop, only about two, but then again, I'm skimping.
Also, in a way, what really changes from year-to-year (aside from speed and other bigger-is-better upgrades) ?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I will buy a new machine but will upgrade it using part from all previous broke down PC
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It's not normal for me to have a tower-based PC's; I usually have powerful laptops.
I can even have two laptops, the powerful brick and the ultrathin (but still powerful).
Regarding the specs, I either buy the top notch from the beginning or once I need to upgrade it, I'll go for the maximum it can handle.
On laptops makes my life much easier, I can only upgrade memory and disc, so it's kind of a no-brainer.
I just make sure that the laptop I buy has or supports, at least, 16Gb of RAM and has an SSD.
Right know I'm working on an almost 4-year-old DELL laptop that was upgraded last year to those 16Gb and SSD, it looks like a new machine 
BTW, why the "at least" 16Gb you may ask.
I often work in VMs instead of directly with the machine OS. These VMs can sometimes be some heavy SharePoint server beasts, where actually 32Gb would do wonders
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I follow a system for many years (since ~2008) now, where I upgrade parts of my main pc every 2 years.
phase 1 changes the graphics card(s) to something more up-to-date, 2 years after i change motherboard+cpu+ram... 2 years later again the graphics card...
thats it more or less. so the case of my pc is 8 years old in the meantime, but none of the components inside is older than 3.x years. costs way less money and avoids lots of setup time sink.
harddisks are changed when needed - doing a monthly image of the system partition - so i never risk much.
all my data is in the cloud, nothing stored locally, so I have no fear to lose anything to a hdd crash - makes changing very easy.
You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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About every 4 years I build a new machine but usually keep a couple parts from the older system like a DVD or a case. (70-80% new machine though)
Also about every 2 years I reload from scratch to keep the OS fresh and fast.
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Me too. I just built a new machine because my motherboard died (first time that has happened). I reused an old case, my old ram, and my hard drives. Otherwise, everything else was new.
Stuff I replaced:
motherboard
processor
power supply
dvd drive
I'm not a gamer, so I just used on-board video (Intel core 4th gen processor).
I use Linux, so it doesn't seem to slow down over time like Windows...I didn't do a thing to my install, just booted up off the old system hard drives.
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