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To: rnsmth who wrote (145190)	11/17/2012 3:50:53 PM
From: HerbVic	Respond to of 213172

We buy one about every 5 years - does that meet your definition of disposable? No, not at all. Disposable, to me, means that they can't be repaired. If they develop a problem, you got to get a new one. Of course, how they're disposed of may be different going forward. And, that was the thrust of my post. Lately, I've been holding out around 4 years before upgrading. Always an iMac, though. And, somewhere in the rear view mirror I started owning and upgrading 2 at a time, though not necessarily at the same time. I think that was during the Marathon 2 era.