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Aloone_Jonez:
Kintaro,
I wouldn't mind your dad's PC, it's much better than mine.
I don't see the point in having a really fast computer, my current main machine is a 2GHz single core AMD 64 processor, PC3200 1GB RAM, Sapphire Radeon X300SE graphics carge with 256MB RAM which I got for free from my brother. I'm happy with it and will probably not upgrade for a few years and when I do it'll be for free, the only thing I'd probably pay for is a solid state HD. The older machine described in my previous post was my main machine until the end of last year.
I don't play games or anything so buying a faster PC won't bring me any real benefits, a lot of the extra power will be sucked up by the latest version of Windows, so any PC is fine as long as it can cope with Google's latest 3D mapping web apps. I still don't even use the full power of my current PC - half of that 1GB RAM hardly ever gets used!
Kintaro:
I am really not sure, but I've heard the same thing as you somewhere. I know that wherever there is the profit motive there is recycling. My family was in the automotive recycling business for years and that tended to sit in a balance of selling the parts of cars or having them melted down for scrap metal. When the price of steel shot up, we crushed a lot more cars. Computers don't really contain much of anything of value so they just sit around. Yet there is a bit of culture of recycling and people tend to like taking part.
I made a joke at the supermarket the other day, when I forgot to bring my reusable grocery bags that they can probably make 10,000 disposable bags with the same amount of energy as weaved cotton reusuable one. When it comes to climate change I think when ETS becomes more widespread recycling could be hit in the crossfire as wasteful of energy.
I hope my kids are digging up landfills in 2050 and using nanite replicators or whatever to turn them back into useful stuff.
As for motherboards and parts there are a lot of computer recycling businesses which come in handy in repairing old computers and upgrading them but as they become obselete so does the demand for the parts.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez on 7 June 2010, 10:15 ---Kintaro,
I wouldn't mind your dad's PC, it's much better than mine.
I don't see the point in having a really fast computer, my current main machine is a 2GHz single core AMD 64 processor, PC3200 1GB RAM, Sapphire Radeon X300SE graphics carge with 256MB RAM which I got for free from my brother. I'm happy with it and will probably not upgrade for a few years and when I do it'll be for free, the only thing I'd probably pay for is a solid state HD. The older machine described in my previous post was my main machine until the end of last year.
I don't play games or anything so buying a faster PC won't bring me any real benefits, a lot of the extra power will be sucked up by the latest version of Windows, so any PC is fine as long as it can cope with Google's latest 3D mapping web apps. I still don't even use the full power of my current PC - half of that 1GB RAM hardly ever gets used!
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Windows 7 seems a bit nicer than Vista on hardware requirements. Without games I've noticed many people use overpowered computers for very little.
Calum:
--- Quote ---Yet there is a bit of culture of recycling and people tend to like taking part.
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this is nice to hear, in the UK it's still the mainstream attitude that recycling is for tree hugging alfalfa eaters, and that we'll only do it w the government forces us to (the main thing that seems to be fashionable at the moment is to treat recycling bins as normal bins, no idea what that's about, but it's the height of ignorance imho)
--- Quote ---I hope my kids are digging up landfills in 2050 and using nanite replicators or whatever to turn them back into useful stuff.
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i totally agree. :-)
Kintaro:
Kintaro:
I can post my screenshots in links.
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