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Johan Bové

Old PC hardware is still nice too and better for the environment

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My Surface Pro 3 is turning five years old soon and I still use it as my main machine, albeit not on-the-go as the battery life is abominably bad. And today Microsoft is coming out with the latest edition in this neat little PC, the Surface Pro 7 and i'm thinking ... darn, that is a super sleek, non-upgradeable, fancy super-portable PC, should I upgrade?

And then I reconsider because for a while now, we have this whole sustainabibility - thing going on and since absolutely nothing in this new Microsoft hardware is upgradeable or even repairable, I am empowering my inner Earth-loving self and deciding to NOT get seduced for the fancy-pance glued down hardware.