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> broken old laptops and desktops from this era are surprisingly high, and working ones are actually expensive! What do you think, could it be factories or cor
by knodi123 4y ago
> broken old laptops and desktops from this era are surprisingly high, and working ones are actually expensive!
What do you think, could it be factories or corporations that have critical processes running on ancient software that requires very specific hardware to run, and which nobody wants to pay to rewrite for modern hardware? Young me would have said "don't be silly", but I've seen some crazy things, man.
- titzer 4y agoThe draw of laptops is easy to understand. I have a cardboard box full of old motherboards and things, but without all the requisite drives and video cards, they are junk. I'm not going to buy a bulky 486 desktop for nostalgia. A laptop is a pretty compact, fully self-contained item; just needs an AC power adapter. Easy to have a box full of them. All of my old laptops still work, especially that 12" aluminum G4 Macbook.