UK Greens Declare Vista Bad For Environment 290
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.'"
they forgot to mention (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Strange... (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....
Faster PC's may be good for environment? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Strange... (Score:3, Interesting)
Vista Experience on older systems? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Strange... (Score:3, Interesting)
Fast User switching is a good feature? huh. my kids like it, but I can't figue out why; the only XP machine in the house is my uberfast new laptop, and it takes essentially the same amount of time to log out then log back in as it does to do the switching thing.
and yeah, I capitilize too much when i'm feeling particularly fed up with something. sorry about that.
Re:Vista defaults to Standby, not Power off! (Score:3, Interesting)
I've had to turn off standby & hibernate on my 2.8 GHz Xeon work machine because neither work right in Vista, which I've been testing for a month or so. I'm sucking up way more power than I did with XP.