Restoring Old Hardware With Ubuntu
Marketing departments want us to believe that PCs, laptops and netbooks become obsolete after a couple of years, but it's not true.
The computer industry has evolved over the years more rapidly than any industry in contemporary history. Year after year engineers have worked valiantly to bring us, the end users, faster and more capable hardware without sacrificing reliability. Programmers and application developers have been equally quick to develop new software that puts to use the new hardware specifications.
However, while striving to sell more and more products, marketing departments want us to believe that PCs, laptops and netbooks become obsolete after a couple of years, and not replacing them makes us luddites.
It's not true. Except for high-end gaming, a mid-level system bought in 2006 will provide enough functionality to get work done and have fun in 2011. Word processing, Internet surfing, watching movies shouldn't make your old system think twice, granted it is configured correctly, up-to-date and has an operating system that's efficient and performance oriented.
So what are you going to do with your old PC? There are a few options available. Restoring old hardware with Ubuntu is one of them.
Find out more about how Ubuntu can help in the 37 page whitepaper "Old Computer, New Life: Restoring Old Hardware with Ubuntu".
Deb Alloway
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