See, that's where they've lost me. I don't feel like those cost savings are being passed on to the consumer to a great enough extent to make me feel okay runnin

See, that's where they've lost me. I don't feel like those cost savings are being passed on to the consumer to a great enough extent to make me feel okay running out to buy another whole computer when one ram chip stops working, if the battery stops taking a charge, or if I decide I need more storage for what I'm doing. We'd have to get down to Raspberry Pi pricing territory before I'd be willing to consider buying a computer that is essentially disposable. Is it really more economical and environmentally friendly to recycle a whole computer than a ram module or an SSD?