its FUD designed to sell overpriced i7 products. Hard drives are cheap to replace without the need to do the whole system. Same thing with power-supplies. A new machine wouldn't figure into any of the problems they mentioned althought it WOULD resolve them all, just in the most inefficient and backwards way possible.
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