Today I learnt you can estimate the age of a machine by looking at SMART data!
$ smartctl -a /dev/sda
9 Power_On_Hours Old_age 9335 (92 144 0)
12 Power_Cycle_Count Old_age 3900
I bought my ThinkPad second hand and it's had an amazing number of boots.
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