Comments on: If You Love Your Computer Mouse, Buy A Spare While You Still Can http://www.pcmech.com/article/if-you-love-your-computer-mouse-buy-a-spare-while-you-still-can/ Tech Powered Life... Simplified Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:19:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: ed fairhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/if-you-love-your-computer-mouse-buy-a-spare-while-you-still-can/comment-page-1/#comment-78281 ed fair Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:40:00 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=16786#comment-78281 It isn't just your favorites that are going away. Serial driven have disappeared, PS2 versions are scarce, and what was that you asked for, a "bus mouse", never have heard of that.The same issues with keyboards. And now that I think of it, parallel ATA hard drives.The bottom line, you need to keep thinking about your migration path covering your next hardware failure. If you can buy it now, it is already obsolete, the replacement is already in the pipeline. It isn’t just your favorites that are going away. Serial driven have disappeared, PS2 versions are scarce, and what was that you asked for, a “bus mouse”, never have heard of that.

The same issues with keyboards. And now that I think of it, parallel ATA hard drives.

The bottom line, you need to keep thinking about your migration path covering your next hardware failure. If you can buy it now, it is already obsolete, the replacement is already in the pipeline.

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