Yeah, as late as 2008, I was using a computer with Windows 98 on it.
It didn't work PERFECTLY but it served my minimum needs.
Whereas my girlfriend is on iPod... three?... in four years?
How many macbooks has she gone through? my friends who have macbooks from 4 years ago are all doing fine.
an ipod is a tiny, portable device. come on.
my windows computer is basically like living in hell a lot of the time. it cannot do basic tasks.
lately the new thing is that it opens a million programs when I turn it on, and when I tell it not to open them, it says I need to be the Administrator to do that. I am the administrator.
I don't get at this point the complaining that is like... everyone says your ipod will only last two years, and then I bought one, and it only lasted two years.
also: microsoft can't have "planned hardware obsolescence" because microsoft does not make hardware. at least, not computer-bodies.