Sometimes it is a pity having to throw away still working but old hardware. I have two Pentium 4 procecessors one with a functional motherboard that I do not use anymore. The reasons for abandoning them are speed and electricity consumption. Today's Internet requires faster computers to be used properly with many sites mandating the use of script. Paying online using old hardware has become next to impossible and going in person to make payments is a time waster for most people.
As some hinted out, using prohibitively power hungry, that is, old hardware, is not viable anymore. The long term electricity expenditure cannot justify using such hardware. I have a T4400 Acer Aspire laptop that now I almost seldom use. The reason is speed. Since most sites mandate the use of script, and I pay my bills online, it is not practical anymore to use it. Besides of technical reasons for boarding out hardware that still work there are other reasons like speed and power efficiency. -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) If you cannot make abstructions about details you do not understand the concepts underlying them. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng