[apillar]

5. People are just not upgrading that much anymore.,

That's the big reason in my opinion, it use to be through most of the 80's, 90's and early 2000's that when you purchased a cutting edge PC, it was a given that it would obsolete in less than two years. Not so anymore, in fact I know people that purchased PC's in 2005, which are still completely functional and run everything on the market just fine, with the exception of some of really graphic intensive high end games. So unless you are a really high end gamer, there is little reason to upgrade until your computer finally conks out

[duckman]

“...I know people that purchased PC’s in 2005, which are still completely functional...”

I agree, I purchased my Dell laptop in 2000 with Windows 2000 Professional. It still works fine for my needs. Unfortunately Norton just dropped support for it’s Antivirus for 2006. I am now looking for software to replace it. Any suggestions?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Unless one has a very old personal computer that is no longer serviceable there is very little value to be gained from incurring the expense of an upgrade.

I keep my wife's Sony (Vista) around so I can swap documents back and forth between work and home. My wife uses an iPad and I have a Macbook Pro. We both have iPhones. Don't plan on doing anything differently for the next couple of years.