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>Now I know her statement to be untrue, but I did a little research anyway and found this: "Now then, as for mechanical degradation- in the solid-state world we call it "electromigration" ie the electrons very slowly migrate to try and make the atoms neutrally charged. This can create very bad things like shorts inside the CPU that simply cannot be fixed and your CPU just wont work anymore. It takes a very long time for this to happen (it's also a factor of materials used, size of the mask used, and voltage applied) and so you usually dont have to worry about it. Your CPU wiill not slow down due to elecromigration, it will simply go caput."
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>Caput is something we can all probably relate to. Mainly I've had drives go caput, but solid-state parts have failed on me, too. But this is, of course, not what she was saying. She was claiming the processor would slow down over time due to wear and tear. Where do they find these people?
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>Russell Campbell

"electromigration" is also a neurological problem in call centers.