# March on with your bad self (plant your March mini rants)

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**Created:** [March 1, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973 "2025-03-01T16:41:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/265 "2025-03-31T22:41:53Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Fortunately, I can have all these features by throwing out my beautiful Dell Optiplex 7010 and spending about $1500 on a new one with Windows 11.

That computer is 13 years old. You’re like Homer Simpson and his sandwich that was killing him with food poisoning but he couldn’t give it up.

[![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSeCwEOLy1kVFfr9VFHdj_Yj_9kskG22HBfWw&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSeCwEOLy1kVFfr9VFHdj_Yj_9kskG22HBfWw&s)

And you can get a Windows 11 computer for less than $250 from Walmart, or go even cheaper and get a Chromebook for a little more than $50 if you really want to go cheap (if you don’t need Windows 11, just want something with a compatible browser). Suggesting that you need a $1500 computer to be able to visit the SDMB is absurd.

Expecting a computer to last forever is kind of crazy. If your computer was 3 years old and you were griping about obsolescence, I’d be completely on board. But 13 years?

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