This has been my mindset for a long time. I don't buy new computers, I buy older refurbished ones from my local electronics recycler. I do it because I only ve

This has been my mindset for a long time. I don't buy new computers, I buy older refurbished ones from my local electronics recycler. I do it because I only very rarely need the sort of grunt that would make an older computer struggle, the cost is substantially lower, and reusing what's already built is better for everyone than buying something new and letting perfectly usable equipment go into the waste stream just because it's not the new shiny anymore.