In retrospect, I regret it; I saved those PCs from going to the dump, but:
- They were not power-efficient
- Because the hardware was a decade old, they had poor connectivity options
I used to seek out computers that were maximally upgradeable. But in practice, the only thing I ever upgraded was disk and memory. I still have a box of obsolete memory cards. Stuff gets obsolete very quickly these days.
What do you mean these days? Computers used to obsolete within months in the 90s as ever-faster CPUs kept coming out.
No longer true, with the death of Moore's Law. Computers from 2010 are still quite usable (I have several, servers & laptop) since speed increases over the last decade are incremental at best.
I've been buying computers since the 80s and now is the golden age of longevity for equipment.
I wish devices were made to last for at least 10years, only my modular desktop with haswell gen CPU has lasted that long. I downgraded it from daily to something else.
Which is all to say, I understand why we want modularity, but - for most computer users - a much more necessary path forward is a reimagining omaterials recyclability.
