I use it every morning on the bus to work and it normally freezes at least once a week. Has anyone else had a weirdly perfect run with an old device that made you hold onto it longer?
I had to pick between getting a cheap Chromebook for $200 or sticking with my old T420 that I snagged off eBay for $80. I went with the ThinkPad because I love having a real keyboard and the ability to swap drives and RAM whenever I want. Has anyone else chosen an older business laptop over a newer budget machine and not regretted it?
I was at a coffee shop last Tuesday and a teen said anyone still using an old phone like a Palm or Blackberry is just being stubborn. It got me thinking, is holding onto dated tech about nostalgia and function, or is it actually holding us back from better experiences? I mean, I love my old iPod classic for the click wheel, but sometimes I wonder if I'm missing out on streaming quality. What do you all think, does older tech have real value or are we just sentimental?
I keep a Rand McNally road atlas under my passenger seat that I bought for $12 at a gas station near Flagstaff. When my phone died on a trip to see my aunt in rural Oregon last fall, I just flipped to page 64 and found a back road that bypassed a construction zone. Now I check the atlas before heading out somewhere new - it shows forest service roads and old routes that Google Maps just skips. My coworkers think I'm crazy for keeping it, but it never loses signal or runs out of battery. Anyone else still stash an analog map in their vehicle for emergencies?
I used to think smartwatches were the only way to go for keeping time and checking messages, but after my fifth smartwatch battery died during a job site walkthrough last Tuesday, I pulled out this beat-up Casio from 2005 I found at a thrift shop in Springfield. The battery in that thing has lasted over a year without a single charge, and it still counts my steps if I walk right. Has anyone else gone back to a basic digital watch and found it less hassle than the fancy models?
I dug out my 120GB iPod from 2008 that I thought was dead. Charged it up for an hour and it booted right up with all my old playlists from college. I compared the sound quality to my phone streaming the same songs and honestly the iPod sounded warmer and fuller. Has anyone else noticed old MP3 players having better audio than modern phones?
I was reading through old specs on GSMarena last night for a Nokia N95 I used to have and found out it had 64MB of RAM while looking up a $20 Casio calculator watch my kid got for Christmas that has 128KB, wild how far we've come but also makes me miss that clunky camera slider so bad, has anyone else gone down this rabbit hole of comparing old phone specs to modern junk?
I decided to put an SSD in my old T430 last Sunday. Figured just clone the HDD, swap the caddy, good to go. But the cloning software kept freezing at 67% every single time. After two hours of that nonsense, I realized the SATA cable in the caddy was loose. Fixed it with electrical tape and the clone finished in 10 minutes. Has anyone else had a cheap caddy ruin a simple upgrade like this?
I was skeptical when a guy at the salvage yard said a 3 foot whip from a 90s Camry would outperform my little indoor dipole, but after mounting it in the attic last weekend I get clear reception on 8 more stations without any static.
I been going back and forth on this after trying to play my old PS2 on a modern LCD vs a Sony Trinitron I found at a thrift store for $20. The CRT has that perfect scan line look but it weighs like 60 pounds and takes up half my desk. Which side do you fall on for older consoles?
Plugged it in after maybe 5 years of sitting dead and it lit right up with that old playlist from 2010. Has anyone else had an older iPod just refuse to die on you like this?