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I thought this video was rather interesting, because at 12:27, the presenter crunches the numbers to find out how many years it would take for a new computer purchase to be more environmentally friendly (in regards to total CO2 expended) compared to using a less efficient used model.

Depending on the specific use case, it could take as little as 3 years to breakeven in terms of CO2 if both systems were at max power draw forever, and as long as 30 if the systems are mostly at idle.

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[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 year ago

Oh god, P4? Yea, those were just 100 watt light bulbs.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

My first computer was 33htz. Ran Windows 3.1. And Warcraft 2.

So yeah. The perfect computer.

[-] kurcatovium@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago

Well, I would hope for 33 MHz at least... ;-)

[-] zod000@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

A 33MHz DX 486was great. If you got stuck with a slower SX CPU, things were frequently not so hot.

[-] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Sans the light

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