Pineapple PC: To Upgrade or Replace. . . That’s the Question

I get asked all the time by my clients; Jeff is the computer worth keeping and upgrading or should I replace it? In most cases I tell folks to keep what they have and upgrade. I say this for may reasons. First is Windows XP; if you have it you want to keep it. If you buy a new PC today you will be stuck with Vista and that’s not a good thing. So much so that Microsoft quickly saw this and is replacing Vista with an even newer operating system called Windows 7. The second reason upgrades are not that expensive; for the most part, if you have a PC that is running Windows XP and was bought after 2003; you have a PC worth upgrading. Typically three things go bad or need to by expanded; your hard drive, power supply and ram. Two things will happen with the hard drive. It will either die one day or you will run out of room. New ones are not expensive and are many times larger then your current one. Your power supply will die one day, they just do. The power supply is located in your desktop case and converts your wall power into a power the computer uses. Again they are inexpensive and easy to replace.