@Linux__dup_35@linuxrocks.online
2025-12-07 21:07 UTC
@kevin@social.interlunium.nl
So, how much more years you reckon this gadgets can still fly? It's already like 13 years is it not? Discontinued more than 10 years ago?
What are you going to do when these last generation ones really go under? How long do you reckon you can keep replacing parts? Can you replace ANY part?
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@kevin@social.interlunium.nl 2025-12-07 21:11
@Linux@linuxrocks.online Oh for many more years. Even on my Lenovo X230 I can do almost all of my work without any issues. And yes, nearly all of the parts can still be bought new. There's lots of factories in China selling them. If this really becomes unworkable in the future, I hope by then there will be RISC-V implementations that are similarly open / low on blobs. Of course there already are ARM SoCs now that come close, like the Rockchip SoCs PINE64 uses. But they're not faster than Intel Ivy Bridge.