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I had to play, after reading this. So I've just searched my emails for the receipt from when I bought my current laptop: > Delivery: 23 Jul, 2013 - 25 Jul, 2
by Normille 6y ago
I had to play, after reading this. So I've just searched my emails for the receipt from when I bought my current laptop:
> Delivery: 23 Jul, 2013 - 25 Jul, 2013 by Standard Shipping
> 11-inch MacBook Air
> £1,159.00
> With the following configuration:
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB Flash Storage
Which according to this site [0] means I've had it => 2708 days. Which averages out to => 42p/day or => £156/year.
The only deteriorations I've noticed over those 7 1/2 years is that; the battery doesn't hold charge for much more than an hour [not a problem, as I tend to work with it plugged in all the time], the screen has a couple of pock-marks [made of soft plastic, rather than glass], the fraying adaptor cable is held together with glue, screen hinges are a bit floppy and I had to replace the keyboard [although that was down to 'wine error']
Other than that, My MBA still works fine and feels quick enough for anything I need to do on it. And that includes a lot of graphics work in Illustrator and Photoshop, as well as all the other less demanding 'stuff' I do on it. So, all things considered, I reckon that's a pretty good return on my investment!
[0] https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=24&m1=07&y1=2013&d2=21&m2=12&y2=2020&ti=on https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=24&m...
Further thoughts:
Given that the guy's 'raison d'être' seems to be about sustainability and green energy, it seems quite ironic that:
1: He abandoned his first fully functional laptop to land-fill and bought a new one just because the adaptor died. Rather than just buy a new adaptor [non-Apple ones are available at a fraction of the cost of OEM, if the price was too much to stomach].
2: He abandoned his second fully functional laptop to landfill and bought a new one just because the version of WindowsXP he had running on it was no longer supported. Rather than just install Linux on it, instead.
- _nalply 6y ago> He abandoned his first fully functional laptop to land-fill and bought a new one just because the adaptor died. Perhaps the laptop-side of the adaptor died?
- Normille 6y agoHis writing suggests it was the adaptor itself which died: >...the charger started malfunctioning. When informed of the price for a new charger, I was so disgusted with Apple’s sales practices... that I refused to buy it. Instead, I managed to keep the charger working for a few more years... When the charger eventually died entirely in 2005, I decided to look for a new laptop...
- lowtechmagazine 6y agoNone of the laptops was brought to landfill, I still have them at home, which is why I could photograph them all. The malfunctioning charger was not the only problem. The Apple laptop had also gotten extremely slow. Because I was not aware of Linux (this is 15 years ago), I made the mistake of thinking that I needed a new laptop. This is the whole problem: many people are not aware of Linux and its advantages, and thus keep falling in the trap that the hardware and software industries have set up for them.