How long will an s9 last?

I've been told and I've heard that my insurance will replace my machine every 5 years. I've been thinking that wouldn't the replacement schedule be be more like a TV than a Laptop? A Laptop's life expectancy is about 3 years. The battery and hard drive being the first components to die off almost regardless of usage. A TV will last 20 years if you only watch it a couple hours a day, or a couple of years if it runs 24x7.

Some people run their CPAPs 4 hours a day. I am logging 8.5 on average. Seems logical my machine would need replacing twice as often as someone just meeting compliance. At the end of 5 years I will have put 15512.5 hours on my S9 as compared to the 7300 that someone complying will log. Just does not seem fair.

Oh well...I guess I will have to start a replacement fund for my s9. Sorry for the rant....now back to your normally scheduled and fun fourm.

-tino

ps if there are MTTF stats, are they published?

don't over-think things too much. the cpap should last a long time. insurance replaces them every 5 years. that doesn't mean they go bad in 5 years. alll 3 of mine going back to 2001 still work. usually by the time 5 years rolls around there are newer machines with better technology that you may want to upgrade to.

mine is only 4, but I have a friend that used one for 7+ years before he replaced it. The old one still works and he uses it as his back up.

My mom just got a new machine, but only because she wanted an apap machine with data. Her old machine was a cpap, no data, still works fine. It is from 2004.

I think it is also more hype than reality about things going bad so quickly. I bought a used laptop in 2005 that my mom still uses. I got a new laptop in 2008 (because I needed a faster computer for editing photos). It is still going strong, doing everything I ask it to. The screen is great, photos still load and save fast. I bought the best I could at the time so that I wouldn't have to buy a new one in a long time. I have bought an additional battery, but the original still works too.

I had my first desktop computer for 10 years. I bought a new one for basically the same reason as the new laptop. I needed a computer that could run my newer version of photoshop.

I also have a 4 year old cell phone. One new battery about a year ago. Works fine.

Most people get new phones, computers, (and probably cpap machines) because of new features, not because the machine died of old age.