In your experience, how often do you need to buy a new laptop?

In your experience, how often do you need to buy a new laptop?
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I still prefer desktops, I need their flexibility with ports and drives and stuff. It’s a perpetual upgrade but roughly 5–7 years to do a major overhaul with a new motherboard and processor. That number has been trending longer lately sine I game on consoles now. (Crypto miners have ruined PC gaming) I still have a metal tank of a gaming case from almost 20 years ago. It has room for like 10 drives. I still have a 2011 macbook running linux since the latest MAC OS and Windows are not supported on it. I don’t use it for much except running a few key things like astrophotography software or a USB OBDII code reader. I either just need a phone or a full desktop so laptops for me are fading into obscurity except for work travel. Tablets are basically throw away items after a year or two. I replace phones every three years or so.
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