How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops
solar.lowtechmagazine.com
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.

  • Dariusmiles2123English
    2•1 year ago

    Really interesting article which makes me wanna try that method on the oldest computer I have lying around 😇

    • @Nuuskis@fosstodon.org
      1•1 year ago

      @Dariusmiles2123 @unix_joe I have a Librebooted Thinkpad X200s and even that is capable of being a daily driver.

      The only reason you’d need newer than a quad-core intel 2nd/3rd is video edit and gaming. Probably heavy compiling too, but I haven’t found them too slow.