The only time I am forced to buy new hardware is when my dies. (Or I
screw up like bending the pins on a CPU.)
Recently I have recycled some old computers for folks who have need
of a new machine because theirs died (for whatever reason)
It could be bad HD (I swap out HD's) or a bad board, (I swap out machines)
These are not the latest or greatest, and most of them are 4-6 years
old. When I see someone getting rid of machine simply because they
have upgraded or a component went bad, I ask if I can have the
machine then I do what I can and make it usable.
In many cases I get next to nothing for them and am just glad I was
able to help someone get back up and running again.
Stewart
At 03:55 PM 8/31/2009, you wrote:
As others have pointed out, no one is being forced to buy new hardware.
Our older computers haven't lost any of their capabilities because
Snow Leopard has come out.
It makes just as much sense to rail about being "made" to buy a new
computer because you want to use 4GB of ram and your old one maxes
out at 512K, or because you want to add a 500GB hard drive and your
old machine's hard drive controller won't recognize more than 130GB.
The same for USB 1 vs. 2, IDE vs. SATA, we all could continue the list
ourselves for quite a while. I don't see that the fact that these are
hardware modifications rather than a software one changes the issue.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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