sure Keith... and of course, philosophically speaking no-one owns anything, and nothing is forever... or at least you can't base your life on that, bad kama

I agree about constant updating being a pain - my andriod phone keep doing it, I don't want/need most of the apps and I don't need google ass[istant]

minor quibble - if your computer is solid state you have a fair point about the speed - but if it has platter HDDs these start to wear and slow down after time because they cannot physically access the data as fast as they age