I can not afford to buy anything now that I do not NEED.
My very old Sony Vaio still works for what I do, so I
will use it until it dies.
I can afford it, but there’s no compelling reason to replace my 5 year old (maybe even 6) PC, it works, it’s starting to feel a little slow but not much, there’s nothing I want it to do that it can’t. Maybe this time next year I’ll starting thinking about it, which means probably another year after that, unless it actually dies. Not like in the old days, back then I’d do a major upgrade of components in 18 months to 2 years after purchase, and total replacement that same window later. Some of that’s me, I’m not as interested in the bleeding edge as I used to be, but some of it is the industry too, the bleeding edge doesn’t bleed as much as it used to. Used to be there was a noticeable difference in performance of PCs more than 6 months apart in age, now it takes 2 or 3 years for a person to say “yup this one’s faster”.