| kowenicki said: what a weird headline. just because new sales are declining it doesn't mean potential users should, new users are likely increasing. people just dont see the need to replace as often. |
This. People that don't replace their old PCs still use them anyway. The same applies to consoles, BTW, before my sister bought her PC she still used her old Gameboy and our really old Intellivision, every now and then. I too used it for years after its generation ended, until I switched to ZX Spectrum first and finally to PC. In these 16 years of owning a PC I just did three major upgrades after the initial purchase, although I did a lot more minor updates. And when I did my last major upgrade, I used the newest spare old parts to build a PC for my mom, that worked for some time, then I had to change its mobo, CPU and RAM, but I recicled again all the rest, including the case for the 3rd time.
PCs are just like those damn zombies in Thief I, very hard to kill. 
