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How long do you plan to keep your current laptop?

How long do you plan to keep your current laptop?

  • ~1 year (or less)

    Votes: 43 16.2%

  • ~2 years

    Votes: 40 15.0%

  • ~3 years

    Votes: 86 32.3%

  • ~4 years

    Votes: 47 17.7%

  • ~5 years

    Votes: 12 4.5%

  • More than 5 years.

    Votes: 37 13.9%
  • Total voters
    266
I'm hoping to get 4 years out of her. I'm doing alright on my apple-lust, at least laptop wise. So I'm pretty confident.

I'll probably freshen things up with a ACD sometime soon here. haha
 
I'll be keeping mine around until it's completely dead more than likely, as it's my first Mac computer and I have good faith that it will keep up with whatever I need to do (unlike the Windows counterparts I've owned over the years).
 
Well, I voted 4 years, but if you'd asked me that same question in August of '05 when I bought my cutting-edge 14" iBook, I'd have said . . . 4 years. I bought a 17" MBP in December of '07. I'm a sucker for shiny new things. If I thought my wife wouldn't be hanging my testicles from her rear-view mirror, I'd probably buy a MacBook Air, too.:D
 
I don't have one myself at the moment, but I will get myself a Penryn MBP when it arrives. I expect to use it about four to five years.
 
Depending on when and pricing of future MBP, I may purchase AppleCare and just keep this one for 2-3 years.
 
As much as I spent on my little 12" Powerbook G4 almost 3 years ago, I hoped that I would use it as my main computer for maybe 4-5 years.

But i've become very jealous of the iSight feature since the Macbooks came out like a year after i bought mine; and Leopard is out with the Time Machine function; when I spent more money buying a bulky external hard drive to do the same thing with [and now they have more manageable, stylish external hard drives out now too - for almost half the price!]...thankfully i'm graduating soon, so maybe I can squeeze an iMac out for a graduation present. maybe.

but as soon as apple makes their next major laptop overhaul - I'm pretty sure I'm going to sell my PB and use the money to buy a new laptop [if only i had the money to get everything new all the time!:(]
 
I have a Tablet PC that I bought in May 2004, and it still is in use. I just got my MacBook Pro and I plan on using it at least 4 years or until it dies.
 
This one is coming up on its one-year anniversary, so I'll probably keep it until the 2nd/3rd revision of the next major upgrade and then sell it. It performs like a champ and I'm heavily invested in software, but work pays for that now so it's all good.:D
 
14 inch ibook g4 coming up to 3 years now. ive already had to replace the battery and upgrade the ram. teh HD is too small (60gb) and the trackpad isnt perfect, can be twitchy sometimes. will be upgrading to a MBP soon hopefully
 
I use a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet (released in September 1998) as my primary system still. I got it at the end of 2001, and was running Rhapsody 5.6 (Mac OS X Server 1.2) on it until the released of Mac OS X v10.2 in August of 2002. I am still running 10.2.8 on it today. I upgraded it to 512 MB of memory shortly after I got it, and then upgraded it from it's original G3 (at 266 MHz) to a G4 at 500 MHz early in 2003. In late 2003 I replaced the original CD-ROM drive with a CDRW, and when the battery finally died in 2004, I added a second 20 GB hard drive to the system in the second expansion bay (it has a 40 GB drive as it's primary).

So, I've been using this system or a little over six years, and because there are things I just like better about 10.2 when it comes to writing, I'll most likely still be using this system for years to come.
 
3 years.

This 2.2 Ghz MBP has to get me through graduate school, and counting this semester, I have 2.5 years or 5 semesters to go.

I know it's going to look like a brick in summer of 2010, but by then hopefully my degree will allow me to buy something new as a graduation present.
 
RacerX said:
I use a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet (released in September 1998) as my primary system still. I got it at the end of 2001, and was running Rhapsody 5.6 (Mac OS X Server 1.2) on it until the released of Mac OS X v10.2 in August of 2002. I am still running 10.2.8 on it today. I upgraded it to 512 MB of memory shortly after I got it, and then upgraded it from it's original G3 (at 266 MHz) to a G4 at 500 MHz early in 2003. In late 2003 I replaced the original CD-ROM drive with a CDRW, and when the battery finally died in 2004, I added a second 20 GB hard drive to the system in the second expansion bay (it has a 40 GB drive as it's primary).

So, I've been using this system or a little over six years, and because there are things I just like better about 10.2 when it comes to writing, I'll most likely still be using this system for years to come.
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You deserve some kind of award for dogmatic tenacity for that!
 
I've had my 1.5ghz G4 PB for about 3.5 years. I'll either replace this spring after an update if I have a job lined up upon graduation or when Apple does a major refresh of the laptop line up.
 
I bought my macbook about a year ago... plan to keep it as long as it suffices my needs! I would guess that would be about 5-6 years!
 
Steel Wheels said:
I bought my MBP in April '07. I'm shooting for an upgrade in two years. The hard part will be convincing the wife to let me get another one.
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HAHA! Funny how that stupid crockpot gathering dust was a must-have, but new computers are just toys, huh? My wife had a six-month conniption when I mentioned a new MBP, but when she finally realized we could video chat and see the new grandchild, she saw the light.
 
I've got a first gen MBP (ordered as soon as the store came back up when they were announced). It's coming up for 2 years old and is still working fine for me. I'll probably be keeping it for another 12-18 months. Hopefully then I can replace it with a new one that is at least twice as fast.
 
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