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That’s twenty years it’s been in use – at the same company, which I worked at as well, I would regularly see lines of PC’s which had been gutted of anything useful before going for recycling. None were more than two or three years old…
Are we still trotting out this tired old non-argument? How many of those three year old PCs cost five grand? It's like saying that your Snap-On screwdrivers last longer than the ones you got from Poundland. Of course they do, and they only cost you one of your lesser-used internal organs. It's just not a fair comparison.
You pay £5,000 for a machine which lasts for 20 years vs replacing a £500 PC every three years coming in at £3,000 in total, net result in the former case you're left with a 20 year old computer and in the latter one that's just two years old.
My laptop is 12 years old. It's running the current version of Windows 10 and it's absolutely fine. I kept my old work laptop when they forcibly "upgraded" us a couple of years ago, that's nine years old. It's running the next version of Windows 10 and it's absolutely fine. And I'd go as far as to say that these are not anomalies, any PC of that vintage that was a half-decent spec to start with should be able to be brought up to current without breaking a sweat (well, if you throw an SSD at it). Are there many decade-old Macs running Catalina?
What you've got there is not an example of "PC vs Mac," it's an example of "corporate recycling."
Oh, and my tower PC is probably almost 20 years old as well (I'd estimate circa 2003-vintage but I can't be 100% certain as I'm not its original owner), though the only original components are probably the chassis and the floppy drive [edit, scratch that, I've just checked and that drive bay is empty bar the FDD faceplate]. That's one of the joys of ATX having been the standard unchanged desktop PC form factor for the last quarter of a century, I can keep swapping stuff out as technology marches on and it all just fits and works. It'll probably outlive me.
Cougars just cross because he can't sell his stash of old xeon processors