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Can a base model i3 8GB MBA remain useable for 8-10 years for a basic user?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1851801" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>AS the others have eluded, if you are specific about what you install and your use case doesn't dramatically change, then yes. But people tend to always update their applications as new versions come out and developers tend to focus on supporting hardware/OS's that fairly recent and not care much about how poorly it might perform on a 10 year old machine.</p><p></p><p>So if you stay stuck in time (largely) then the machine will be JUST as snappy 100 years from now as it is today. But no-one is going to do that and thus the dilemma.</p><p></p><p>To this day there are some very key systems around the world running on very old machines (I'm going to ignore the entire banking infrastructure running on 60's-70's era machine & Cobol) running old versions of Windows very reliably day-in, day-out for decades. These machines behave the way they do because they are locked in time, the software on there will be updated, nothing will ever change on these machines, so they perform with the same consistency for all of time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1851801, member: 110816"] AS the others have eluded, if you are specific about what you install and your use case doesn't dramatically change, then yes. But people tend to always update their applications as new versions come out and developers tend to focus on supporting hardware/OS's that fairly recent and not care much about how poorly it might perform on a 10 year old machine. So if you stay stuck in time (largely) then the machine will be JUST as snappy 100 years from now as it is today. But no-one is going to do that and thus the dilemma. To this day there are some very key systems around the world running on very old machines (I'm going to ignore the entire banking infrastructure running on 60's-70's era machine & Cobol) running old versions of Windows very reliably day-in, day-out for decades. These machines behave the way they do because they are locked in time, the software on there will be updated, nothing will ever change on these machines, so they perform with the same consistency for all of time. [/QUOTE]
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