How long can a laptop last?

[Singhonline]

How many years can average laptop last?

 

[wphashan]

it depends.

 

[Pranshul Sood]

most of the laptops slow down after 3-4 years of usage. However when they breakdown depends on usage and capacity of the laptop

 

[trivishal]

An average laptop can last upto 4-5 years upon average, and even more if you use with care and not intensively( too much). Typically, the battery degrades as time passes ( around after 1.5-2 years), as laptops are used even while charging.

 

[arjan wolthuis]

If You take good care of it, it can Last very long. An 11 year old XP laptop here is still functional but not used anymore

 

[trivishal]

it depends.

What does it mean?

 

[michail71]

I've got about a 5 year old desktop that outperforms many new systems still. Surprising how performance has slowed. Most advances have been in power consumption, portability and newer sensors and interaction inputs.

 

[xandros9]

It really depends.

Assuming everything is in perfect working order, the laptop can potentially last a decade or more, exceeding it's service life.

But of course, individual components can and will fail. Hard drives can fail, batteries will wear out after a couple/few years, plastic can age and crack... but on the original core parts it'll last a while, best case.

But it also depends in the design and stuff. HP had the infamous Pavilion dv series laptops (late 2000's) that had bad thermal design which relegated many a laptop to an early scorching death.

However I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T400 and my friend has a Dell Latitude E-something (both are business class PC's and were direct competitors) that are similar in age and still tick. So if you're going for longevity over slimness etc. a business/professional grade laptop will be the ticket. Easier to source parts for too typically.

PC minimum requirements have also plateaued somewhat since the days of Vista so a computer will remain useful, for longer these days. (My dad has a laptop with Windows 2000 that still works perfectly fine, but its 96 MB of RAM and underpowered-back-then CPU means it won't be doing modern computing anytime ever.