>It's as if we have given up on "solving" climate change in favor of short term profits... That is such non sequitur. Old hardware gets old that is nothing new

>It's as if we have given up on "solving" climate change in favor of short term profits... That is such non sequitur. Old hardware gets old that is nothing new. All of us _could_ do our work with laptops from early 2000s, but we don't because we want the benefit of 20 years of hardware improvement. Why is upgrading an old laptop any better than buying a new one? The parts had to be produced anyway and unless you are upgrading frequently your old laptop will still be noticeably behind in performance. Sure on some metrics they are fine, browsing hackernews and sending emails is solved and can be done with pretty much every computer. >Not even considering that new macbooks if locked are unusable on the secondary market I also don't get what you mean by this. At least my macbooks aren't "locked" in anyway. I can reset them and resell as I see fit.