Comment by rbanffy
10 hours ago
> they lack a glowing apple to show off at Starbucks.
If your MacBook has a glowing apple, you might be running Snow Leopard. You need to upgrade like now.
10 hours ago
> they lack a glowing apple to show off at Starbucks.
If your MacBook has a glowing apple, you might be running Snow Leopard. You need to upgrade like now.
I miss the glowing apple on my white polycarbonate MacBook. What I don't miss is the shitty Intel GMA X3100 iGPU and Apple not releasing a 64 bit driver for it.
Should have spent the money on a MacBook Pro with a real GPU, I would have used that computer way longer than I had.
Thankfully I don't own any, I rather have computers with replaceable parts, more environment friendly, thus not something I need to worry about.
what computers are you buying that are more environmentally friendly? The MacBook Neo is 60% from recycled materials and Apple offers free recycling for all their products.
How do you recycle your old parts?
> what computers are you buying that are more environmentally friendly?
Any computer that you can upgrade its parts? SSD, RAM, Wifi cards, etc.
The only parts that wear out on a modern laptop are the SSD and the battery. If I replace those, I can use it basically indefinitely, paying the penalty on performance and energy consumption depending on how old the CPU is.
Why would I throw out (or recycle) a perfectly good computer if I could simply fix or upgrade it? If you're not reusing it, then you could pass it down to somebody who would use it.
20+ year old computers are e-waste at this point thanks to software bloating and lack of hardware acceleration for at least h.264.
15 year old computers are very usable, but unfortunately most use SATA for storage which is definitely not optimal for SSDs.
10 year old computers are from when PC tech plateaued, for most use cases the difference in performance is imperceptible, and maybe you lose power efficiency.
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Thinkpads with replaceable components and PC desktops.