If you read later on the author gives their rationale: "I started buying a new laptop every year as a reward to myself for quitting smoking. ... The environmen

If you read later on the author gives their rationale: "I started buying a new laptop every year as a reward to myself for quitting smoking. ... The environmental consequences of that system weren't lost on me, even given my very good track-record of re-homing my old computers with people who needed them."