Originally posted by Kivada
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Increasingly, folks with little money are resorting to unsafe, zero-privacy smartphones as their only access to the Internet. A Pentium 4 with Linux on it back home can cost nothing, far outperform that smartphone especcially for video, and offer far better privacy and security,
Where I am, Pentium IIIs stayed in service until Pentium 4's appeared in dumpsters. P4s will be around until Core2/Phenom class machines appear in dumpsters, and that may be a long way off for offices, who are retaining them until they die because they can still do anything most offices will ever need them to do. Expensive, high-powered stuff gets reserved for content creation where it's really needed.
With all this talk of "let the older machines die," I sure am glad I archive all software packages I ever download!
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