How much have you spent for hobby/recreational use? This includes hardware and software.

If you use your computer for legitimate work purposes, don't include it.
If you use your computer for your "music/web host/video editing" business that generates only a little bit of revenue, we'll consider that "hobby" use. By "work" I mean "I make my living with this thing." I'm not talking about gas money while you're in college, or beer money from your web hosting services, but actual "I pay rent and buy food with this cash" money.


I've probably spent about $500 in the last 10 years. That has only been on incidental stuff like cheap speakers, a wireless keyboard/mouse, a wireless router now and again, and minor cables and crap. I get my computers for free when we upgrade at work. They're 3+ years old, but they work fine and come with Office (legal). I only use my home computers for web, documents, and photos -- no games, movies, or music, other than web-related, like Hulu or Pandora.

Me personally?

Not including games, about £60.

What if buying and playing games is part of work but we do it with our own money on our own time?

Millions. No... Billions.

If you would have asked me 5 years ago, about the decade prior to that, it would have been maybe $15k. As it is, I use my computers almost solely for work, and I haven't upgraded in the past 5 years. I bought a new macbook a couple of years ago but haven't done anything to it other than a memory upgrade (is anything else even possible?).

$1500 for a new computer, and $70 now for a new hard drive for my old computer.

Old computer was 7 years ago, parent spent like $700 on it I think? Then I easily got like $500 or more in stuff for it over the years.

Well, three computers, four monitors, misc speaker upgrades... Probably around 5000$ maybe 6000$. Of course, that's about all I ever spend money on, aside from misc expenses like gas.

Uhh pretty much every computer I've ever owned has been bought in the last decade so if I factor all of them together roughly 3500-4000

I'm just going to ballpark it at several thousand.

Computers in the past decade? Hard to say. Just counting hardware, I'd still say probably $10,000+.

Hrm ....

$15 for a new keyboard on my old laptop..

Maybe close to £2000?

The last ten years is basically every computer that I've personally owned.

I would have to guess around $4000. Almost all of it was spent on building & maintaining a desktop PC (including upgrades over the years) & buying an iMac.

Parents gave me $1200 to build a PC back in 2005. Does that count?

Beyond that, I spent $700 on a laptop and probably a couple hundred for odds and ends here and there.

$400~ on netbook + extra ram + wireless mouse last year.

$350 on my current desktop. Found it on craigslist, it is awesome.

$300 on a 23" Vizio HDTV that I use as a monitor. I mostly use it for Windows Media Center.

I'll say $1000.

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Kept all the reciepts.
Since 2006 (When I actually bought my own stuff, I had a P2 300 MHz from 2000-6) 3548$

$600 on desktop, $400 for laptop, $300 or so for various parts over the years i'd say

I have noooo idea.

At least $19,000.

probably around £6000.

About 2500$ for two seperate computers, one in 2001 and one in 2005.

I'm due for a new one this fall since the 2005 one died and I'm left with a laptop.

Few thousand, easily.

Probably around $10,000 for my PC + networking and backups and crap, and then another $4,000 for my laptops I've had.

Edit: the $10,000 was including stuff like speakers, router, UPS, backup drives, etc, that is used for more than my PC

In the last decade? Hmmm, Probably around $4500, that's two desktops and a laptop.

hmm, first computer i bought was 500 euros, then a new one, 1000 euros, video card upgrade (no PCI-e back then) was 200 euros, then my new computer's CPU and video card gave their life to the hardware-god. That would be another 500 euros... Then I bought two new monitors a while back, which were 300 euros a piece, so thats another 600 euros. And I recently bought a new keyboard (20 euros)...

So thats... 2820 euros... Approximately

3-4 grand.

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in the last decade i'll say 7-10k putting desktops and laptops together

Sadly, I haven't spent more than $500. Mostly hand me down computers... The only equipment I've bought *for myself* was a 939 socket mobo AMD 3200+(using it right now) used so that tells you how long ago that was.. And of course graphics cards, which I've only bought a Voodoo3 3000 and a Geforce 6600GT. I'm building a new rig this year 100%

I'd have to look for all my old invoices and such, which I don't feel like doing.

Extremely rough guess..
2001 desktop - ~$1000
2005 desktop - ~$1000
2005 laptop - ~$1000
2005-2006 monitors - ~$500
2009 macbook - $1600 + RAM, which i think was about $150
2010 WHS - $600
2010 - monitor, keyboards, mice - ~$500
Total: $6350 + 14% (tax went from 15% to 13% over this time period) = $7175.50

...wow. That's not even counting all the other random **** I probably bought in that time, real total is probably approaching $10k.

Now if someone posts "How much have you spent on booze in the bast decade", I think I'd win.

Try me, I'm scottish.

in the last decade?

I don't count but maybe about $3000

If I include bar tabs, and not just bottles of booze I'd drink around the house ... oh god I don't even want to know.

But not counting bar tabs .... Prolly $10 a day average?