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UK Greens Declare Vista Bad For Environment

Posted by kdawson on from the riding-the-hype dept.

schwaang writes "The UK Green Party says that Vista's DRM requirements will force many unnecessary hardware upgrades. Quoting: 'There will be thousands of tonnes of dumped monitors, video cards, and whole computers that are perfectly capable of running Vista — except for the fact they lack the paranoid lock down mechanisms Vista forces you to use. That's an offensive cost to the environment. Future archaeologists will be able to identify a "Vista Upgrade Layer" when they go through our landfill sites.'"

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  1. they forgot to mention by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    that running a desktop in hardware accelerated 3d mode all the time also means more power consumption...

  2. Re:Strange... by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Two year old isn't really old, is it? My main desktop is from beginning 2003 and it's still a nice machine.

    I found a perfectly functional P-IV 1.9GHz/512Meg RAM/40Gig HD/Dual-headed-matrox in the dumpster at the recycling centre. Booted it up, and a spyware infested Win2000 popped up in my face. That was fixed with a Linux install. How old is the machine I just described? It's perfectly capable of running WinXP. Vista, probably not all that much....

    People throw away the nicest machines if for them it "behaves broken" or "because a newer version is out".

    Those greenies may have a point, but I foresee golden times for dumpster divers....