Artyom Bologov5d ago

I am indecisive about this post: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops/

On the one hand, it does make sense to buy used high-quality repairable machines instead of new replaceable glued garbage.

But, on the other hand, does it really make sense buying an extremely old laptop AND two more for spare parts because getting these parts is hard? This feels like an unnecessary multiplication of e-waste to me.

My approach is: I’m using my extremely underpowered 2020 Lenovo Thinkpad for the longest possible time and then I get an X220 from 2011, because that’s the last model with a good keyboard that’s still relatively powerful enough to handle my type of computing, and roughly the same specs as the current one, in fact. But it’s a hard sell even to me, because computing is heavyweight in a general case. Might be quite inconvenient with such a laptop, especially in two or three years from now.

Time for a SIMD-powered application stack anyone?

How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops

As a freelance journalist – or an office worker if you wish – I have always believed that I should regularly buy a new laptop. But older machines offer more quality for much less money.

LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
Show threadhairylarry5d ago

@aartaka

I'm a black hole for old computer junk so I usually just fix old laptops

Show threadArtyom Bologov5d ago
@hairylarry that’s a circumstance that factors in it, for sure. My case is different, thus the worry 😅
Show threadhairylarry

@aartaka

When I do need a powerful computer for a specific task I usually buy an HP workstation, used.

I like both the towers and the small form factor computers.

The last laptop I bought was an Acer I used for live streaming. Now I use it for my composition and arranging lessons.

It's on win 10 because of finale, my notation software, but usually I run Xubuntu.

Apr 10 at 1:39amWeb