Steveallen, I'm with you. Prices are down, technology has progressed, and anyone who comes into the game with the idea of hanging onto *anything* 'for life' is shutting him/herself off from the progress that's happening all the time.
That's not to say that you should not hang on to good stuff for a long time if you can't find anything that will beat it--but you should recognize that eventually something will.
That's not to say that you should not hang on to good stuff for a long time if you can't find anything that will beat it--but you should recognize that eventually something will.