[Paul]

Laptops fall apart the day the warranty expires. Desktops last forever. I had a 1995 Packard Bell (certainly not a good brand, they were accused of using used parts, and the CD drive had problems from shortly after purchase) which I junked in 2003, but would probably still be running strong today if I had any use for something that old and slow. My parents had a 1998 computer until a couple years ago, and it was still running fine, again just junked for being slow.

My laptop I bought in 2003 is theoretically still amongst the living, but all the useful parts broke. It lost its DVD drive, the internal keyboard doesn't work, the battery is dead, the power cord is flaky, and so on.