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Well, if you want to get technical, the only reason that the T-800 is considered a cyborg and not an android is because of the living tissue on the exterior.

The T-1000, and the T-X are both considered Androids, well actually the T-X is considered a Gynoid because the characteristics of that specific android make her seem to be female, some also use the term Feminoid.

Seeing that the T-800 is of older technology and still runs on a processor, there would be numerous ways to measure it's life expectancy.

I would assume the head of Bill Gates to be preserved in a jar, and the Terminator Operating System would need reset at least once a week, while system updates will make him lag, and sooner or later, one of the system updates will contain a virus that will shut the T-800's system down, either that or he will start shouting "DO YOU WANT A LARGER PENIS? ASK ME HOW!". As with all the movies the T-800 will eventually kill itself.

Now i believe the T-1000 and the T-X to be Unix operating systems, because no matter what kind of beating they take, the operating system still functions. It doesn't scramble, it's updates are actually functional, and with a little knowledge, simple processes can be altered to bring out new functions. Unfortunately, they're still battling a Windows based operating system, the reason the Windows based operating system keeps winning so much is because, people believe the Unix operating systems are "hard to understand" and require too much programming. That and they don't have happy little icons you click, unless you make them.

As far as the life cycle of a Cyborg, kilojoules would probably be only one way to measure it's life expectancy. Seeing that the kilojoule measures heat, electricity and mechanical work, there are many other functions of a T-800 that have to be taken into consideration.

The living tissue on the exterior of the machine is one. Any living tissue has a life expectancy, if you consider "failure" of the living tissue on the exterior of the machine an issue of Cyborg age, then it could be measured in decades, maybe centuries. Seeing the beating the living tissue is taking, with gun shots, fire and other things, i can't see that living tissue lasting 100 years, so decades would probably be a better age measurement.

Then you get into processor clock cycles. Most CPU's life expectancy is measured in clock cycles, if you overclock a CPU, you shorten it's life expectancy. You're running more cycles than what it was manufactured to run. Heat, cold, water, dirt and other such wonderful things come into play with CPU's. I never heard if the processor in a T-800 was overclocked.

I am assuming that the T-800 has some type of hard drive, or file storage system. If it's flash memory, it more than likely is measured by the power supply. If it's a mechanical storage, like the hard drive on a current CPU, i would give it 5-7 years. At 6 years it would start making a ball bearing sound, the write head would eventually fail and ruin the platters, making the machine unusable until the hard drive is replaced, and the operating system restored, unless the T-800 was utilizing back-ups through Skynet, all information it gathered would be lost.

On top of all that, the T-800 is only a series of terminator. You have the T-803, 804, 806, 808, 810, 835 and the 882. They all have different purposes during combat. You also have the upgrade terminators which are model numbers T-850 and the T-888. So unless we choose one specific terminator series to identify, it's kind of like asking "how long will my computer last?" without even letting me know what type of computer you are using.

Of course we will never know what model Arnold actually was, because in T-1 and T-2, he refers to himself as a T-800, but in T-3 he refers to himself as a T-101, but in the special features section of T-3, James Cameron explains that Arnold is a T-850 series, model 101. Evidently models 102, 103 and so forth look like other people besides Arnold.

Would i use kilojoule to describe a Cyborgs age? No. probably not, but you've written your story in the light you want to see. I was just pointing out the fact that you spelled joule, as jewel, and they have two different meanings entirely.

and finally. No i didn't like the way Arnold looked in T-3. In some scenes you could see the make-up caked on, just one more reason i wasn't impressed with T-3, too may plot issues, a main character that was caked in make-up to look like he was younger and too many continuity issues with the story line.

Harrison Ford is one of those people that gets better looking with age, unlike Arnold who just gets older.