>> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity than >> something small and more recent might use. > > While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying > a new machine from an ecological perspective: AFAIK the embedded energy > in a laptop (i.e. the energy that was necessary to produce the laptop) > is typically higher than all the electricity that the laptop will > consume during its lifetime. >
So you're saying the embedded energy in an obsolete laptop is lesser than the embedded energy in a modern one to the exact extent where there is no ecological profit in using the modern one as opposed to the obsolete one? > Stefan > >
