Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal)

Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal)

Newer hardware is more power efficient than old one (if you don't go
for the raw performance tuned, insanely expensive "top of the line"
hardware). Same for TFT versus CRT.

As for the waste generated: It depends on how often you buy new hardware,
but if it isn't more often than, say, once every 5 years, it's really
nothing compared to your average garbage output. Besides, a lot can be
recycled. Better to worry about your car and airplane usage.

Of course, the above rationale won't give you a warm and fuzzy feeling,
like keeping the old and noisy, energy draining hardware would do.

(All that said, I find it strange that people update their hardware so
often without apparent reason...)

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