[metalspot]

> keeping otherwise usable hardware out of landfills

while i like this idea in theory, in practice the energy efficiency and lower electricity costs of newer hardware mean that in terms of both cost and environmental impact it would probably be better to recycle the old hardware and buy something new in most cases.

[tw04]

>recycle the old hardware and buy something new in most cases.

Completely agree, other than nobody is willing to recycle the hardware in any environmentally friendly way. So "recycle" pretty much just means "send it to some poor country who is perfectly fine polluting their ecosystem to pull anything valuable from the junk".

[znpy]

It really depends. Computers have got very efficient in the last ten years.

Throwing away a five years old chromebook because google decided they don’t want to support it is very different than throwing away a Pentium4 (more of a heating machine than a processor)

[anthk]

Building and shipping new machines requires far more envionmental related costs.

[fuzzfactor]

Plus just earning the money to buy the new hardware is bad enough.