How old is your current computer?

My computer must be getting on for 3 years old now (specs listed in dropdown) and this must be the longest I've had a machine without any change . It still seems nippy and handles any game I want to play (albeit, not at max settings) - so I can imagine having it for another couple of years .

5 years out of a machine seems pretty good to me!

How long have you had your current machines for ? Or, if you've upgraded, how long since the last major component update?

My spec P4 machine was bought brand new in 2005, but then it had a 9800 All-In-Wonder Pro and a different motherboard. At two different times, the motherboard blew the caps and the card blew out too. So now my machine is as it currently stands and is still kinda awesome for a P4 machine. It plays most of the latest games very well still, but some like the new Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, it only gets 10 fps.

I added a SATAII card and a WDCaviar Black 1 TB along the way as well.

I have another machine running Windows 7 flawlessly from 2001 and it's a non-hyperthreading P4 with 768 MB RDRAM and an NVIDIA 6200A-Le. It is perfect for interent, which is all it is really used for. It can play games well of the time and slightly newer.

Your machine is still rather excellent by any standards. No need to upgrade, IMHO. Maybe a better video card if you game at all and want to keep up with the times, but that 8800GTS is rather good still too, heh heh.

My Current one is an Acer Aspire AX1301 listed in profile, its just over 12 months old, I did hesitate to actually buy it as it is not small and compact, i was worried about being able to upgrade graphics at the time for the lack of space, but i am glad i got it as i have never had any trouble with this machine 'fingers crossed' and haven't upgraded anything in it to date. it is a very fast and quiet machine.

I usually buy a new pc every 2-3 years but i like to pick up 2nd hand one to mess about with too.

I also have An another Acer desktop 18 months - Dell desktop 2yrs - sony viao laptop bout 16 months, that will be the missus's so that dont count.

My netbook is 1 year old. Home PC is 4 years old and I've got two old 6 year old laptops (still working great.)

Are they all 7 machines?

Uh. What? I'm confused. I only mentioned 4 computers...

Are they all windows 7 machines? i think he meant.

I have a laptop that is 5 yrs old specs in drop down.all ive added is memory to run win 7 then I have a desktop thats about a yr old

I have 2 laptops, the same make and model, both are a year old.

This set up is nearly on its 1st birthday. My old (?) PC still goes (went) last time I tried it. That's as old as XP is, with the ram doubled (512mb) and a new (to me) 60Gb HDD.

Luckily I convinced SWMBO it was time I left the 19th century!