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Sustainable Tech English · 3 years ago

[LowTechMagazine] - How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops

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[LowTechMagazine] - How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops

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Sustainable Tech English · 3 years ago

How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops

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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.

A classic article from the infamous solar powered LowTechMagazine; the author describes their journey and how they ended up on a laptop from 2006.

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Where I am, retailers have realized used ThinkPads are the buzz so they’ve start selling 5 year models at higher prices, close to a new laptop with the latest-gen Ryzen 5 / Core i5 processors, and everything that comes with it. Unfortunate, but that defeats the purpose.

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