6th May 2017, 8:48 AM
Hmm. I see what you're saying, but I still see it primarily as a whole entity, rather than the sum of its parts. Think of it this way: a company is formed, and as its grows and changes, various staff leave and are replaced. Eventually, even the CEO and other high level personnel are switched out. Wouldn't you still call it the same company? Even with drastic changes in management, most of the time you would keep the company name. Aside from branding, maybe, but that's splitting hairs.
If you don't want to take it as a whole, maybe it became a different computer when 51% or more of the original was replaced. How you measure the percentage is another question entirely... maybe you could weigh each component according to its importance. Would the CPU be the most important? I would say so. Maybe followed by RAM, hard drive, etc. I don't know as much about computers as I used to.
If you don't want to take it as a whole, maybe it became a different computer when 51% or more of the original was replaced. How you measure the percentage is another question entirely... maybe you could weigh each component according to its importance. Would the CPU be the most important? I would say so. Maybe followed by RAM, hard drive, etc. I don't know as much about computers as I used to.