[Arm-netbook] "recycling not the answer"

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:22 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>  i'm not so concerned with precision, on this, just the general
>> principle and that someone has done the research, and found out such
>> estimated costs.
>
> But whether this cost is in the injection molding of the case, or in the
> memory chips makes an enormous difference for your project, since the
> memory chips are on the CPU card.

 both (casework and cpu card) are long-term re-usable, because the
main base unit may be upgraded on a continuous basis, and the cpu
cards may be put, ultimately, after being re-used for many other
end-user purposes, finally into alternative products such as routers,
3d printers, NAS storage boxes, low-power co-located servers [1] and
so on.

 so in both instances, the lifetimes are extended, making it a much
more responsible strategy and also allowing people to save money.

 l.

[1] google "raspberry pi hosting" and i think you'll agree that the
idea of co-location sites putting out a permanent ebay automated "buy"
order for unwanted EOMA68 CPU Cards is not unreasonable.