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> 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?
by _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.