Used towers from 1988 to about 2004 and then bought a new toshibia laptop, which lasted 3 years before the hinges busted, hooked it up to the cvt monitors until the hard drive died. We had replaced it for traveling with a refurb business Levino laptop in 07 and still using it with no problems. It is short on storage so have three external harddrives which also serve as backups. We take one of the harddrives and a mouse on the road at home we have a nice 24 inch monitor.Next one will also be a refurb Levino. Our Levino runs so much better than our daughters Mac.