I bought 3 machines in '04, 2 new iBooks and a used tray-loading iMac for my son. A 14" iBook replaced an aged K6-2/500 desktop that my wife was using, that was handed down from me when I got issued a laptop from my employer. A 12" iBook is mine, which I intend to hand down to my son in the fall of 06 when he starts Middle School. Prior to this year, I can't remember the last whole computer I bought.

That K6 machine was something that evolved over time, upgrades here and there. In fact, I still have it, it's running Sarge headless as a local fileserver. Still have the wife's old computer, too. It's a K6-300 running IPCop, also headless, as my internet gateway/firewall/router, and I have another K6-300 that my brother gave me as an internet server sitting on the DMZ, also running Sarge. (these three are what I wanted that KVM from Joe for, btw)

So yes, there are people (even geeky people) that don't buy computers everyday.