mine died a week or so ago,the screen went black and stayed that way.
thinking about the hassle of getting another and setting it up and trying to remember the websites and passwords i used was a major problem.now i don't really use a computer for anything but email and entertainment so i can just work along to get back to square one.but if you really needed one if you lived in some sort of danger zone,fire,storm,earthquake and your computer went down then having a cheap replacement all loaded and ready to go then you could be back in action in minutes.