why is this news? i thought this was common sense that electronics contain all kinds of toxoc stuff.
but the problem isnt the fact that our beloved gadgets contain toxics, its the fact that its lifecycles are so fuckin short. even if you buy a pc that has the possiblity to be upgraded in such a way that it will serve you for a few years it will most likely die too soon, so you need to buy a comlplete new one. and you even cant use the parts that are still working, because they arent compatibel anymore. use old harddrive as small backup partition? forget it, IDE isnt SATA. add your old ram? forget it. too small and wrong standart. use old power supply? forget it, at least 1MW too weak. and so on
this is a real problem. (and the fact that pcs need way too much power)
qwert
ps: of course this also applies to macs, so please, no fanboy wars here
I think you might be overstating the problem. Many people still use IDE harddrives and DDR RAM. There are practical limits to these technologies, thus upgrades in standards should be expected.
I do agree about that power consumption is getting out of hand though, particularly with video cards. Luckily, power supplies aren't too expensive (compatively, anyway).
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qwert @ Mar 21st 2007 5:32AM
why is this news? i thought this was common sense that electronics contain all kinds of toxoc stuff.
but the problem isnt the fact that our beloved gadgets contain toxics, its the fact that its lifecycles are so fuckin short. even if you buy a pc that has the possiblity to be upgraded in such a way that it will serve you for a few years it will most likely die too soon, so you need to buy a comlplete new one. and you even cant use the parts that are still working, because they arent compatibel anymore. use old harddrive as small backup partition? forget it, IDE isnt SATA. add your old ram? forget it. too small and wrong standart. use old power supply? forget it, at least 1MW too weak.
and so on
this is a real problem. (and the fact that pcs need way too much power)
qwert
ps: of course this also applies to macs, so please, no fanboy wars here
o29 @ Mar 21st 2007 11:22AM
I think you might be overstating the problem. Many people still use IDE harddrives and DDR RAM. There are practical limits to these technologies, thus upgrades in standards should be expected.
I do agree about that power consumption is getting out of hand though, particularly with video cards. Luckily, power supplies aren't too expensive (compatively, anyway).