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  Don't buy into the old yesterday lie, Grist!

  For Grist to suggest even in jest to "better go get one, because the computer you bought two months ago is, like, totally old and embarrassing now" is simply wrong. My 1995 PowerMac 7500 just died last year. It served me well for over a decade, though connecting to the internet was a challenge. In the end, only Netscape could do it...but that's planned obsolescence for ya, which is how manufacturers get Americans to buy all sorts of unnecessary crap. I took the memory from the 7500 and put it into a "vintage" Powermac 8600 I got free from a printer who upgrades his Macs yearly. Sure I can't run the latest version of QuarkXPress but I happen to like version 3.0 best! Why update or upgrade what isn't broken? If we all refused to buy new, they wouldn't make upgrades! The old Mac sold on Craigslist for $20 to someone who wanted to repair it and give it to a computer-less friend. Now that's recycling!On New MacBook Air has some green qualities posted 1 year, 10 months ago 6 Responses