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I compeltely agree. "Green PC" is nonsense. Rather than keep existing technology running (where the investment has already been made to manufacture), we toss it into landfills, then expend MUCH MORE energy to build yet another future landfil candidate simply because it uses a little less power during operation? You don't see the energy expended into building the thing in the first place, to mine the minerals out, to manufacture the plastics, the hardware, transport, shipping, which is why the companies doing that can con people into thinking it is a real green alternative. The energy saving would never compensate for the energy expended to make it, if you stick by the standard of upgrading every 2 years or so. Green computing comes from writing new software in a way which doesn't force people to dump perfectly working Pentium III's because they need to buy a new PC to send e-mails and write letters and work on spreadsheets. Hats off to LTSP, now THAT is environmentally friendly computing. Writing software to make old pentiums and even 486's perfectly useful in a modern computing environment, thereby saving them from filling our dumps and leaking all sorts of chemicals and saving us from the necessity of expending more resources to build a brand new system.

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