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j_waltertoday at 1:25 AM1 replyview on HN

In some cases yes, in others no. As much as I love my new electronics I still play my 14 year old Xbox One, read on my 2012 Kindle Paperwhite and use multiple 5+ year old laptops that function almost the same as they did (running Linux helps). 3 years is not really the lifetime of most consumer electronics anymore...at least outside of the latest GPUs.


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inigyoutoday at 9:53 AM

The latest GPUs will also be functional for longer than 3 years. They may or may not still be economically efficient for LLM companies to operate.