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I am not so sure. I had a Pentium4 eMachine that made it all the way to around 2012. The same kind of life for my first Athlon64 machine from the same company.

I am not so sure. I had a Pentium4 eMachine that made it all the way to around 2012. The same kind of life for my first Athlon64 machine from the same company. In both cases, the machines ran Linux, and they still work today. They were only retired because no meaningful software could run on them any longer. My PowerBook G4 got no where near that longevity, and owners of late era Intel MacBooks are probably going to have similar issues.

bluGill 2y ago
Those machines should have been retired long ago because modern machines use much less power. (the Pentium4 was really bad) Of course there is a difference between a machine that you turn on for an hour once a week and a machine you leave on 24x7. The later use would pay for a new computer in just a few years just from savings on the electric bill (assuming same workload, if you then load the new computer with more things to do you can't see that)
- bityard 2y ago
  The non-trivial environmental damage of building the new computer AND disposing of the old one should not be ignored. There are plenty of us who would rather pay a few extra bucks on our power bill rather than send e-waste to the landfill before it needs to be.
  - bluGill 2y ago
    You are instead sending CO2 into the atmosphere. (depending on how your get your power, but for most of us burning things is how we get our power. Renewables are coming online fast though)
    - BirAdam 2y ago
      Ewaste will create CO2 and physical environmental pollution. Much of it is just dumped on the third world where some parts will be burnt, some melted down, and some subjected to chemical baths for metals extraction. Those chemicals will then be dumped.
duxup 2y ago
Longevity (and certainly not performance over time) is not something I've ever herd associated with an eMachine. I think that machine might be a outlier.

bluGill 2y ago

Those machines should have been retired long ago because modern machines use much less power. (the Pentium4 was really bad) Of course there is a difference between a machine that you turn on for an hour once a week and a machine you leave on 24x7. The later use would pay for a new computer in just a few years just from savings on the electric bill (assuming same workload, if you then load the new computer with more things to do you can't see that)

bityard 2y ago
The non-trivial environmental damage of building the new computer AND disposing of the old one should not be ignored. There are plenty of us who would rather pay a few extra bucks on our power bill rather than send e-waste to the landfill before it needs to be.
- bluGill 2y ago
  You are instead sending CO2 into the atmosphere. (depending on how your get your power, but for most of us burning things is how we get our power. Renewables are coming online fast though)
  - BirAdam 2y ago
    Ewaste will create CO2 and physical environmental pollution. Much of it is just dumped on the third world where some parts will be burnt, some melted down, and some subjected to chemical baths for metals extraction. Those chemicals will then be dumped.

duxup 2y ago

Longevity (and certainly not performance over time) is not something I've ever herd associated with an eMachine. I think that machine might be a outlier.