My Andorid, (not an especially powerful one) feels like old versions of Windows. Leave it one for a few days and it gets sluggish, and needs a reboot. And now its almost 2 years old, all the new updates (Google maps for example) are getting really slow most of the time - unless I have just rebooted. Don't get that on my Linux desktops.
Slow with every new update only means the software is becoming more demanding. I have an old IBM PCServer 330 that's incredibly reliable - if it were not for me rebooting it every few weeks to make sure it brushes its teeth regularly, its uptime would be in the multi-year range. With two Pentium III processors, it's anything but fast, but it's as trustworthy as servers can be.
I'll eventually have to replace the hard disks - I have seen SCSI to CF and SCSI to SDCard adapters that may do the trick.
