I second that suggestion, I currently still use laptop bought in 2002 (yes 8 year old! ) and still can do a lot of stuff with it... (including youtube browsing, music making, pd patches, etc ... ) for the record, there was some measurement done not long ago showing today's top smartphone are as powerful as the CRAY I from the 80's ... are we sure we always need a supercomputer in our pocket/bag ?
Ol. > > > hello > > As a promoter of the zerodollarlaptop project, I would suggest that: > > - you only change your harddisk for a better, faster one, may be a ssd, > > - install a double or triple or quadruple boot, to have any distro > you want. My mac with double boot puredyne and osx is perfectly > working. (boot with efi) > > About the zerodollarlaptopproject: > -industry of computers is a disaster, in terms of mining, ressources, > politics, ecology, society, human costs > -most of our computers have reached a sufficient level of performances. > -growth is impossible to sustain if we want to live on this planet. > > Read the manifesto: > > http://zerodollarlaptop.org/wiki/doku.php?id=minimanifesto > > > JN > > > > >> >> >>My trusty MacBook Pro is getting a bit on in years (four years old now) >>-- no hardware problems to speak of yet, but this is approaching the >>mean time to fail for laptop hard drives. At the same time, I've been >>using puredyne Linux on a netbook and enjoying it a lot. (I'd also >>consider ubuntu studio but don't need the recent flashy gnome stuff - >>puredyne uses xfce4 which, while antiquated vis-?-vis UI features, is >>FAST.) > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
