Stefan Monnier wrote: >> 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.
no idea if such claims are accurate, but in terms of how much actual electricity is consumed and we are billed for the newer machine does make enough of a difference that i'm quite happy with it. the old machine was broken and incapable of doing the kinds of graphics or even able to run a desktop like MATE without having issues and delays and i certainly don't miss the noise. songbird
