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 #2 (permalink) Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:43 pm How often do you replace technical devices, gadgets and appliances? |
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I use the gadgets while they are usable, unless the new version with revolutionary changes comes out :)
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Mar 25, 2007 13:12 pm How often do you replace technical devices, gadgets and appliances? |
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Hi Torsten
I use devices and gadgets until they die or are no longer compatible with anything else.
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Mar 25, 2007 13:37 pm How often do you replace technical devices, gadgets and appliances? |
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| Torsten wrote: |
| ... or do you tend to use your machines until they wear out or fall apart? |
This is me all right!
I still have (and regularly use) the same hi-fi I bought 25 years ago – that says it all, doesn’t it? Everybody around me always seems to have the latest gagetry (for many, it must be a question of honour or of life and death!), but I couldn’t care less. As long as the machine is useful enough to me, I’m not in a hurry to change it. I’ve also inherited my daughter’s old mobile phone, but wouldn’t have minded keeping my even older one (actually, it must still be there somewhere). Oh, and I don’t see the need for a laptop... yet!
Now, when in another thread you talked about robot hoovers, you got me curious and looking around in shops for a while, but unsuccessfully – I wouldn’t mind having one of those, actually.
Another concession to technology was replacing my old 19-year-old Renault 11 with a Citro?n C4, last summer. I had really been looking forward to it, I must say (we’ve kept the “deposed” car, though!). |
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| #5 (permalink) Sun Mar 25, 2007 14:00 pm How often do you replace technical devices, gadgets and appliances? |
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| From all the items enumerated(listed) above, I often change mobile phones to the latest ones (mobile technologies develop rapidly nowadays). That is my weakness. I can change other devices only in case they go wrong. :lol: |
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| #6 (permalink) Sun Mar 25, 2007 16:53 pm How often do you replace technical devices, gadgets and appliances? |
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I have a tendency of placing them with the new ones even when they are repairable. I just replaced my ipod with a gigabeat and my friends were like :shock: apparently they think ipod is classier.
I guess I get tired easily and just making excuses for a new one. If I were not a student and had all the money in the world, I think I would certainly buy buy buy!
p.s. my attitude differs towards certain things, for example, I still use the same purse for 8 years now but I have like 5 eyeglasses 8) but gadgets are cool stuffs, so... |
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| #7 (permalink) Wed Mar 28, 2007 23:58 pm How often do you replace technical devices, gadgets and appliances? |
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| I'll get back to this post as soon as I finish rewinding my Gramophone. |
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