How often do you upgrade to a new Mac?


How often do you upgrade your Mac?  

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  1. 1. How long have you owned your current Mac?

    • About 1 year
      24
    • About 2 years
      9
    • About 3 years
      15
    • About 4 years
      5
    • About 5 years or more
      11
    • 0
  2. 2. What kind of Mac do you own?

    • iMac (17")
      3
    • iMac (20")
      13
    • iMac (24")
      9
    • MacBook
      17
    • MacBook Pro
      28
    • Mac Pro
      7
    • Other
      14


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I've owned my current Mac (an iMac 20" Late '06 w/ a 24" dual screen) for almost three years now. It's reliable and still relatively fast with Snow Leopard, which makes it difficult in justifying an upgrade to a new Mac.

I was just wondering how often you guys upgrade your Mac's?

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Tend to upgrade my MacBook Pro and iMac every 3 years. My current MacBook Pro is just 9 weeks old :happy:

Same except my new MacBook Pro is about 2 weeks old :)

And I have a Mac Mini about 2 months old now.

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I have two eMacs in the house: one from 2003 and the other from 2005

My Mac Pro and LED Cinema Display are about three months old (no poll option for that?) which replaced my 2008 24-inch iMac. In the last case I returned the iMac after 5 months and got all my money back from Apple due to persisting problems the shops didn't manage to fix. Normally I upgrade every three years or so.

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I've owned mine for over 3 years now; the first 20", 2 Ghz Intel iMac.

It's had one one logic board replacement, but now runs as smooth as silk, and pretty fast since the Snow Leopard install. :)

I plan on buying a new mac as soon as finances allow though. Probably a Macbook Pro, and cinema display.

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Still use my powerbook from 2005 from time to time.

I use my macbook every day at work and at home when out and about. It's coming up to three years old this october. With snow leopard, the macbook runs really quick and i haven't noticed a slow down in my general day to day use.

I have a iMac from dec 2007, which is my home workstation, again no problems with speed for any of the tasks i give it.

So in answer to your question, it's hard really to say as i don't really buy new computers by time, but usually by use. I would say though, the average is about 4 years.

Mac's i find tend to last longer in usefulness than PC's (Please note this is my personal opinion!) My Windows PC's generally get replaced after 2 - 3 years. Early 2000's it used to be every year :s

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my Macbook is about a r old, and I plan to get at least another 2 out of it unless there is a HUGE change in HW, like a 13in 1440x900 screen, 1TB drive, Blu-ray, and a vid cast thats almost equiv. to a 4850 ATi card.

Which I think maybe the 1TB will happen... not the others.

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I have a 20" iMac which I bought in January of 2008 and plan to wait for the next Macbook Pro refresh with a new purchase.

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Well I had an iBook, which I upgraded to a Powerbook G4. I then bought a Mac Mini w/ an ACD which I then sold and bought my MacBook Pro 2 years .

It's starting to faulter, the SuperDrive is playing up and there is funny rattle noise that it makes when moved, sounds like a something has broken away from inside need the MagSafe connection. No idea what it is........

But I wont upgrade until a serious HW upgrade (it's already been mentioned), like a BluRay SuperDrive.

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I have a 2.5 year old macbook, a 4.5 year old PowerBook G4, and a ~1.5 year old PowerMac G4 MDD.

I try for every 2 years, but my hardware upgrades get lamer every time. The G4 MDD was a find on ebay that really was in fact new - so were the ACDs I bought to use with it. Like it or not, it's a really old machine and is slow as *@#% in the real world. Noisy too!

But the $$ I had, I couldn't have built anything decent anyway lol. Oh well, could be worse, I know dudes using 12" powerbook G4s as their main machine.. and I've still got that MacBook :D

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Still use my powerbook from 2005 from time to time.

I use my macbook every day at work and at home when out and about. It's coming up to three years old this october. With snow leopard, the macbook runs really quick and i haven't noticed a slow down in my general day to day use.

I have a iMac from dec 2007, which is my home workstation, again no problems with speed for any of the tasks i give it.

So in answer to your question, it's hard really to say as i don't really buy new computers by time, but usually by use. I would say though, the average is about 4 years.

Mac's i find tend to last longer in usefulness than PC's (Please note this is my personal opinion!) My Windows PC's generally get replaced after 2 - 3 years. Early 2000's it used to be every year :s

Yeah I've found my Mac has lasted much longer than any of my PCs, which is why I started the thread.

Well I had an iBook, which I upgraded to a Powerbook G4. I then bought a Mac Mini w/ an ACD which I then sold and bought my MacBook Pro 2 years .

It's starting to faulter, the SuperDrive is playing up and there is funny rattle noise that it makes when moved, sounds like a something has broken away from inside need the MagSafe connection. No idea what it is........

But I wont upgrade until a serious HW upgrade (it's already been mentioned), like a BluRay SuperDrive.

RAM is so cheap, how do you stand just 1 GB of RAM, I think I'd go insane!

I don't think I would have the patience for a Mac with 1GB of RAM.

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The first mac I bought was a mac mini when they first came out (January 2005) and then I bought a Power Mac that I only kept for 2-3 months... and then a Macbook Pro that I kept for a good 2 years and sold. A year ago I bought another Macbook Pro (the one just before the new unibody one) and sold it a bit later. In between the gaps I always had my trusty Hack though

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My current Macs are a MacBook Pro (almost a year old) and a Mac Pro (9 months). Hopefully I'll have them for some good years, specially the Mac Pro.

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I had an iBook in 2004, a PowerBook in 2005, a MacBook Pro in 2006. And then I didn't upgrade until 2009 to another MacBook Pro

iBook to PowerBook: I felt the iBooks 800MHz CPU was extremely slow and the screen at 12" was to small

PowerBook to MacBook Pro: Intel switch, Dual Core, Larger Screen, I simply had to upgrade

Once I had my original MBP I didn't feel the need to upgrade until the 2GB Limit on my original MBP became an issue and the newer MBP with the Dual-NVIDIA GPU's and up-to 8GB RAM support gave me a computer I'd own for years. I imagine I won't buy another Mac until 2012 at the earliest.

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My current MacBook is about almost a year old. I don't plan on upgrading it to a newer version till I head to college in 3 years.

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Got my MBP in June 07 so 2 years and 3 months for me. Was running just fine almost as well as when I first got it, then the Leopard upgrade (which I did as an upgrade and not a fresh install) made it run faster than I remember when I first got it, so well worth the very small amount of cash to buy it. I think I would like to put more ram in, as it's only got 2gb.

As for my windows machine that I use for gaming and streaming itunes to either of my airport expresses - that one needs something upgraded in it all the time, so unreliable, and when I moved house, my XP install decided that just cause I put the damn thing in a box for a week it would go and die on me - grr for reinstalls.

I plan on holding onto the MBP till a major major hw revision, I still cant justify replacing it, as it runs so well and does all that I want it to, mebbe a bigger HDD would be nice.

next purchase is a mac mini though, wanna clear out all the other devices under the tv and just have the one thing to do it all :)

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I got my 1st gen 24" Alum iMac the day it was announce and a 1st gen Macbook. It's been over 2 years now so I'm probably gonna upgrade next year. But to be more accurate, I'd like to upgrade whenever I have the money.

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