That seemed
to have been the job of Windows Vista; fortunately it
 was short-lived so many of our machines survived! ;)  
 I think I was looking at a Dell ad the other day for its business
 desktop PCs.  They seemed to think it was wirth bragging about that
 their offerings would have a life cycle of 20 months. 
 
I'm still using (in a practical, daily driver sense) a computer that is
almost 6 years old (quad G5). My laptop (iBook G4) and backup workstation
(Luxo G4) are even older.
I'm not having much luck adapting to this "post PC" age.
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