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As a perpetually poor college student I have come to appreciate older hardware. My fastest machine is an Athlon 2500XP. I have a duron 800 Mhz server, a dual PIII 500Mhz machine, and a PII400Mhz machine. They all run the latest Kernel and KDE much quicker than they ever ran windows. I have come across many people that have perfectly good computers, but they are percieved to be slow because windows is so choked with spyware, virii, and other hidden software. I tell them I can install Linux and their machine will run flawlessly for many more years, but they decline and end up spending more money on a new machine. That's why we need to increase awareness that people can donate their old machine to various charities. They can donate old cars and boats so why not add computers to that list? Unfortunalty shipping the darn things is pretty expensive, but if we can get around that then I think it will be economically and socially viable.

 

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