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I’m not convinced that a mid cycle GPU upgrade fixes the problem of e-waste at all. The problem is everyone is obsessed with having the best they can afford all the time.
Buying a laptop designed to make it through 2 generations that maybe will offer some pricy parts down the road vs. spending that extra money on a better single use laptop and keeping it for a decade or more…I think doesn’t make sense.
I haven’t purchased a laptop since 2013. The screen is still nice, still plenty fast, storage is fast, I replaced the battery…why upgrade?
Now if someone going off to college needs a laptop. Am I going to ever recommend a new company’s new product that is attempting to shake up the laptop market? Absolutely not.
Framework will not appeal to the average person. So they will stay small. And a don’t expect a small laptop manufacturer to ever make a meaningful difference to the environment. I expect their net impact to be bad for the environment. And ultimately a waste of time and effort.
We don’t need another new product to save the environment. We need to stop consuming.
I’m not convinced that a mid cycle GPU upgrade fixes the problem of e-waste at all. The problem is everyone is obsessed with having the best they can afford all the time.
Buying a laptop designed to make it through 2 generations that maybe will offer some pricy parts down the road vs. spending that extra money on a better single use laptop and keeping it for a decade or more…I think doesn’t make sense.
I haven’t purchased a laptop since 2013. The screen is still nice, still plenty fast, storage is fast, I replaced the battery…why upgrade?
Now if someone going off to college needs a laptop. Am I going to ever recommend a new company’s new product that is attempting to shake up the laptop market? Absolutely not.
Framework will not appeal to the average person. So they will stay small. And a don’t expect a small laptop manufacturer to ever make a meaningful difference to the environment. I expect their net impact to be bad for the environment. And ultimately a waste of time and effort.
We don’t need another new product to save the environment. We need to stop consuming.
@GregoryTheGreat
Maybe. But any solution rooted in a large scale reversal of behavior isn’t practical.
Discontinuing incremental progress because its not enough is a good way to make no progress at all.
@baseless_discourse