How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)
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How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)
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#3(2020)
Yep, saw that too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646791
374 points, 530 comments
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#5> On the contrary, the only thing a consumer can do to improve their laptop’s ecological and economic sustainability is to use it for as long as possible.
This is true for everything, not just laptops.
Any purchasing that occurrs on a fashion cycle is largly a rip off...
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#6Maybe for OpenBSD. These days I am parano... savvy and prudent enough to not trust security swiss-cheese software bare metal, and so I box it all up into qubes with Qubes OS. For Qubes, it's always best to max out RAM, core count, and GPU count (AI). Libreboot laptops don't cut it if you want to run seven isolated chat/social profiles on seven separate VPN/Tor connections while also running LM Studio in an offline GPU-passed qube, to obfuscate cross-profile lexical correlations.
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#7Use refurbed when possible. But obviously the "don't buy new" incentive only scales to a hard limit
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#8(2020)
Yep, saw that too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646791 374 points, 530 comments
LOL I posted this in the previous thread
>I am still on my MacBook Pro 2015 because of the Keyboard and Trackpad. So in about 2 years time this will be 10 years of usage. I dont intend to replace it any time soon. For browsing it is fast enough. And if you look at the Louis Rossman Channels it seems newer MBP just aren't built the same. It may be worth looking at it again I 2025. How little ( or big ) the past 10 years of Laptop has changed.
May be time to look for a new MacBook especially when all of them now has 16GB memory by default.
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#9>I grumpily ordered a replacement key for 15 euros.
A single key for 15€?! I remember ordering one from an online shop specialized in replacement laptop keys at some point in the 2010s and it was like 2€ total. Browsing through similar shops now, it seems like the minimum is 5€ per key nowadays, but still a far cry from 15€.
>After spending more than 100 euros on plastic keys, which would soon break again, I calculated that my keyboard had 90 keys and that replacing them all just once would cost me 1,350 euros.
Someone who breaks keys this often could just buy the whole keyboard assembly FRU for ~30-50€ and take spare keys out of that, assuming it's not always the same ones that break.
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#10I presume, with Windows 10 support ending this year, there's going to be a glut of used laptops.