Texas Makes Green Computing Mandatory

athloi writes to mention that Texas legislators have passed a bill that would require computer companies to provide free recycling services to their customers for hardware purchased. "The bill (HB 2714) requires computer manufacturers to provide a "reasonably convenient" recycling plan that requires no additional payments from consumers. Dell and HP provided some model legislation that was used as the basis for the bill, which will only affect computers purchased for personal or home business use, but it could still encourage manufacturers to adopt efficient recycling programs that might then be applied to all machines sold."

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Dell announces 1 Terrabyte storage in all new PCs!

[jadin]

Let's see...

250GB drive..
250GB drive..
250GB drive..
100GB drive..
60 GB drive..
50 GB drive..
40 GB drive..

Unheard of storage at an unbeatable price!

Texas Computer Recycling

[uolamer]

I recently changed my recycling policy here in Texas with my computers. Until a month ago it was I upgraded, then my room mate upgraded with my old parts, then the living room emu/movie/etc pc got upgraded, etc with the parts. at the very end the left over stuff was sat 100 yards from back of the house and shot with a 22-250 (rifle)..
now we added an extra step where my room mate upgrades another friend ;) But we are considering making the chain long enough so the parts finally end up in Russia and in exchange they give us a "bride" or something, haven't worked the details out yet.

Re:Texas?! Environmental responsibility? Holy crap

[fucksl4shd0t]

Only people in Austin call it the live music capital of the world.