Just realised that my current primary machine is three years old. For the first time ever I havn't actually had to work on it or tweak it much. Usually double the RAM after a year or two and then it starts to struggle a year later.
Was pretty much start of the art when bought, but feel there's no need to upgrade hardware as yet.
Only upgraded to win8 pro, now 8.1. Don't really feel that was needed but felt the need to keep up to date.

Any thoughts considering the news about decline in PC sales?

I wish I could remember how old my laptop is... it's three years old at most, but it's only a crappy dual-core with 3Gb of DDR3 that my dad paid way over the odds for. It only struggles cos of Firefox and I never tax it otherwise anyway.

I want an 'Ultrabook' next if the battery life holds up.

My iMac is 2006. The iMac is not really usable these days, I made the mistake of installing Lion on it, it take a couple of minutes to boot, it can't play DVDs and surf the web at the same time and loading Firefox takes around 45 seconds. It is also no longer supported by Apple, I can't upgrade it to Mountain Lion or Mavericks.

On the other hand, the Sony notebook is faster than ever with Windows 8.1. it is a 2010 vintage. The 2004 vintage Acer runs nicely with Windows 8 as well, although it mainly runs Linux these days, I just put Windows 8 on it 'to see' how it works, great is the answer.

My tablet is nearly a year old, running Windows 8.1 on an Atom. This is the reason the other two are running so well, Windows 8.1 is 'fast enough' on the Atom, so it is fast enough on a 2004 notebook and flies on the 2010 notebook (Core i7 1000 series, 8GB RAM). Heck, the Atom Windows tablet makes my 2012 Core i7, 16GB iMac at work feel sluggish. Moving Windows to ARM and Atom has done wonders for its efficiency, Apple concentrates on the high end and although Mavericks might be faster than Mountain Lion on 2013 hardware, it isn't that fast compared to Windows 8.1.

That is a complete about face from when I bought my iMac. Tiger was a lot more efficient than Window's XP, but each new version of OS X has been more sluggish on my hardware than the previous version, whereas Windows has become faster with each new version on existing hardware. No wonder that PC sales are declining.

Our customers are currently buying Celeron or Pentium based desktops. They are 'fast enough' for their desktop workers (our ERP solution and MS Office 2013).

My iMacs are both late 2009.

Got this dual core laptop in December 2007. I make a cup of tea if it slows down doing something.

Mid-2011 i5 iMac. I would like to up the RAM to 16GB at some point but no (sensible) thoughts to replace it yet.

My home made pc is coming up to its tenth birthday and, although Asus only released windows xp drivers for the motherboard, is running Windows 7 nicely.

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My home PC is 8 months old and I still notice the difference between it and my old (7 yrs old at the time) PC

My MacBook Pro is now six years old, and still chugging along with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. It can't be upgraded further, but it's fine for surfing and light duties.

My main hardware is now a 2012 Mac mini, bought this summer. Due to some hardware and software incompatibilities, I'm holding off on "upgrading" to the latest OS, so like the MBP it's 10.8 Mountain Lion.

My two MacPros are from 2007/8 and TBH I can't see myself needing to upgrade either any time soon as they are both performing brilliantly. The only reason to upgrade would be if I suddenly required some new software that they weren't capable of running.

My MacbookPro is from 2007, and is now starting to show its age mainly because it can only take 3GB of RAM so there's a lot of disk activity at times as it swaps between applications. However the vast majority of things I use it for could be accomplished just as well on an iPad, so I'll have to consider my options carefully when I do come to replace it.

My iTunes server is a PowerMac G4 dual 500 from 2000. For what it needs to do, it is still going strong although it will be phased out some time next year when I finally get around to re-ripping my music as uncompressed AIFFs onto one of the MacPros.

For all the things I do - multitrack audio or print and web graphics - computers become more than sufficiently powerful a long time ago. These days I only notice slow downs when I have very large jobs that need to be created in less than optimum applications. I recently created the artwork for a complete tram wrap (all 5 cars, both sides) that had to be supplied to the printer at 450dpi at 1/10 size in Illustrator. That's been the only time in the last couple of years when I've spent any serious time waiting for the computer to do stuff and mainly because Illustrator isn't brilliant at handling large imported bitmap files.

Macbook Pro is only a few months old and my iPad was bought in January.

my Toshiba laptop is just 3 years old and still doing ok, apart that the battery pack is gone.

2 weeks

< 2 years old on the pc (a couple of small upgrades a year and a big one every few for cpu/mobo/gpu)

Laptop is less than a month old, last one was 4-5 years old and starting to get a bit long in the tooth so refurbed it and gave it to my parents

Most of my PC is <3 years old, though the graphics card is older and starting to show it's age. It's fine for now, but I'll probably have to upgrade once a few games I actually want to play come out on the XBone/PS4 (graphics quality tends to jump in PC games around new console launches due to the fact that they are all developed from the same source code: no point making shiny PC graphics if the two consoles can't keep up)