Forget that new laptop …upgrade the old one
12 Oct 2012

Upgrading old laptops is more energy-efficient than purchasing newer, greener models, according to German scientists.
An Öko-Institut study showed that the manufacturing part of information and communication technology devices, such as notebooks or portable computers, counts for a very large part of the carbon footprint of the product, because the process is highly energy-intensive.
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