How many computers have you replaced?

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I'm just curious to see how many people here have replaced a computer due to a virus or a hardware malfunction?
I here have replaced about 3 times.

1st one - My mate got really angry that day and suddenly thrown the computer out the window.
2nd one - Had the worst virus and it became literally impossible to fix, not even reinstalling windows + over heating.
3rd one - Worked fine until broken AC power kit and my dad made it worse by opening it and accidently breaking the laptop.
4th one - Is my current one, and I'm hoping this one doesn't fail, it's been the best and the one that's functioned the best.

How many computers have you replaced?

virus=none
hardware=a few, its when I upgrade my compter

1st computer: Compaq laptop. I got this in 2001, it was a massive pile of s***. It spent more time in transit and being repaired than with me (it was gone about 2 months for every month I had it). It finally died completely less than three hours after they told me they had randomly decided to void my warranty. The hard drive, floppy drive, video card, and power supply plug all failed simultaneously.

2nd computer: Dell laptop. Got this in 2002, ran just fine until I got raped with malware and the like. I needed a faster computer to run the software necessary for my engineering courses, so I just replaced it.

3rd computer: Dell Laptop, end of 2004. It still worked when I replaced it, but the power cord and battery had become entirely unreliable.

4th computer: Toshiba laptop, 2007. I still use this one. It was a first-generation laptop with Vista, only had 1gb of RAM, so of course this meant it because slow as hell over the years. I still use this, just loaded Ubuntu on it about 2 months ago.

5th computer: Sony HDTV all in one desktop, 2009. I got this for my "home office" (meaning the desk piled with random papers in my room) to double as my only means of watching Blu-Rays while going through grad school.

I still have them all. Most are not PCs, none are Macs,
and any Windows PC I get doesn't last very long before
BSoDing and turning into something else. I don't buy
Windows, but some people think that VISTA and Win7
make everything else useless junk, but to me the older
is always more useful than the newer, so I get free PCs.
Only half of my computers are PCs but in addition to
PC-like computers, I have over 200 user-programmable
"robotic" or "working" computers.

First computer, 1980 IBM. Lost loads of writing on that one.

Second computer, 1991 laptop. Ditto.

Third computer, 2000 iBook. Techincally, it is intact, but my absent-minded professor father with the compsci PhD still hasn't gotten around to fixing it. Not holding my breath anymore.

Fourth computer, 2003 PC. Won't boot reliably. The shop said the hard drive was fried, but I demanded it back due to my suspicions they were lying, and they are. The hard drive is NOT compromised.

Fifth and sixth computers are giving me grief. Six is my current, and five may or may not survive depending.

This is not the full list of computers I have owned. For example, the Apple II still runs strong, although I am not sure what I would use it for at this point. Nostalgia and Gertrude's Secrets, maybe?

1st: 500mhz Pentium 3, 512 mb RAM, 6b HDD Windows 98/Red Hat. IDE controller died
2nd: laptop, 1.4 ghz dual core, 1gb ddr2 120gb HDD Vista/Ubuntu. cpu fan died, overheated
3rd: 3ghz AMD Athlon x2, 4gb ddr2, ATI radeon 3870 1GB, 500gb HDD Vista/Ubuntu. Sold to father
4th: 1.6ghz intel Celeron, 512mb DDR, XP. Donated to blind college student
Current Computers:
Dad's house-Laptop, 3.4ghz Pentium 4, 2gb DDR,, Nvidea Geforce go5700 100GB HDD Xp/Ubuntu
Mom's House-3.00 ghz AMD phenom II x3, 4gb DDR3 1066, ATI Radeon HD4850 1gb, 500Gb HDD Vista

I fried my first machine rather quickly, this one is having issues as well. I'm looking into long-term mass storage...

First computer - Dell Latitude CPi laptop. Got the computer secondhand in 2001, the screen went out, I fixed it. Then the floppy drive died, I left it because I had a usb port and never used the floppy much. When the hard drive died I figured it wasnt worth fixing.

Second computer - eMachines T4010 desktop. I purchased this computer in 2005, and it ran rather well. In mid 2007 the drive controller died, so it couldnt see my hard drive and I couldnt get it to recognize any pci IDE or SATA cards.

Third computer - Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409 laptop. Received as a gift in late 2007. About 6 months after I got it my dog ran through the power cord, knocked it off my lap and ruined the screen. The repair cost was close to a new laptop, so I bought my fourth computer

Fourth computer - Compaq Presario C770US laptop. Got this in the summer of 2008, but it started to horribly overheat not long after the warranty expired, on top of having the worst battery life I've ever seen in a laptop. With the screen at the lowest brightness, I was lucky to get 20 minutes out of it. The overheating wouldn't go away no matter how much I cleaned it, and it was definitely a hardware issue because reinstalling the OS wouldn't help. Changing the OS to anything other than windows made the overheating even worse, and the slowdown from the CPU throttling itself back to cool down made me eventually give up on it.

Fifth computer - Dell Studio 1555 laptop. Got this in January 2010. I realized that my Dell Latitude, eMachines and Compaq all had issues because they were literally the cheapest things I could get at the time, so I made sure not to go cheap when purchasing this. So far its running perfectly.

How many computers have I replaced? None.

I still have them all, roughly speaking. Some, I have given away. Others are just hanging around until I decide if there's anything useful they might still do. I'm not at all sure what I'll do with the Z88 I found I still had in a box recently. I wonder if it's worth anything?

hmm...started out with a Leading Edge Model D 8086, then home-builts; 286, then 386, then 486/16, then 33, then Pentium 1, Pentium 2, and finally Pentium II dual-core. That's my personal stock; the missus, we've replaced about 3 laptops and 1 desktop.

At work - 21 years as a hardware tech: to virus: none. Obsolescence, fire, a sledge-hammer display, rat s**t,
(IBM wouldn't take that motherboard back; they just shipped a new one... solid-crystal display (hey, get a laptop cold enough..., and upgrades of laptops, desktops, and servers.....
thousands...

I assume you mean mainboard, as I tend to reuse components

I give my Windows computers a sequential number (a logical aspie thing to do). The current one is PC7.

However prior to that there were a couple of DOS based IBM PC's, prior to that a Commodore 64, prior to that a Sinclair Z81. Prior to that a Commodore programmable calculator.

I never replaced a computer, but I was once replaced by a computer.

ruveyn

I have replaced too many! Actually, as I write this the laptop is on the way out. It considerately waited until a few weeks after the warranty expired, as they often do. A number of old computers and laptops adorn the house, generally under beds and in the garage, because we haven't the first clue how to get rid of them.

I'm willing to swap three old, broken laptops for one new one, if anyone's interested!!

None, every PC I have got to use for myself still work. If I have a virus or computer issue I deal with it. Oh and even if I wasn't a computer tech I still can not afford to go out and buy a computer every-time something bad happens. Money doesn't grow on trees. Thats why I try to fix computer issues myself. I also feel that buying a new computer over bull**** like planed-obsolescence is also not for me.

However I know that everyone is not inclined to fix computers. Secondly some of the shops that do repair existing computers charge an arm and a leg. So most people just buy new computers because the price difference won't be much different from just fixing their old one. This is also the reason I only charge $35 to fix most computer issues. So people don't have to spend money buying new ones and putting old ones in landfills.