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I have a brand new 15" Macbook Pro Retina w/16gb ram.
Wife has a 2 year Macbook pro w/8gb running great.
I bought 3 mac minis in 2009 that are all running perfectly around the house in various capacities.
Additionally my basement lab has a 2 PCs running a VMware ESX cluster, vCenter appliances, with probably 10-20 Windows 2012 Server and RedHat Linux Virtual Machines on it.
Also I have redundant NAS devices on my network.
I am in the process of moving my physical lab to the cloud so those will go away.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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This one about 2 months, but I have an old XP netbook 6 years old, an XP Tower 10 years old, and a Windows 98 tower 16 yrs old. I still use them all for one thing or another.
The Windows Home Server is the oldest running box in the house, and it was built in 2010.
My personal tower is next right at 24 months (the case is actually from '08 but the MB/CPU/RAM is from '12, and the video card is about 16 months old).
The HTPC is at about 13 months, and my wife's laptop is about 9 months old.
I built my own PC in 2008 for $800 (internal parts only) and just now in 2014 had to upgrade it to play newer games on higher than low settings. I spent $400 upgrading it and it will run modern games on High-Ultra now. I only upgraded for better gaming capabilities though - none of the parts I replaced were broken.
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