[Noisebridge-discuss] Interview about planned obsolescence?

[Brian Morris]

Back in the 90s Apple made a bunch of notebooks computers with upgradeable
cpu "daughtercards" that could extend the life of the machine by several
years. I happen to have three of these (two upgraded) in my collection and
could supply pictures of the guts if desired (although my camera is pretty
shabby 2mpxl = web only)

Amazingly although they haven't done that in a decade, just a few years ago
they made a notebook with an upgradeable graphics card.

I think that if they wanted to they could standardize motherboards in their
laptops so that when case designs remain the same they could be upgraded
even if no daughtercards (such as going from a core2duo to an i5 maybe.

I also have a G4 powermac upgraded to a 3x faster cpu. The G5 models all
had different cpu sockets and no upgrades were possible even by 3rd parties
due to Apple proprietary knowledge. Prior to the g5 all mac towers were
upgradeable for the cpu and graphics cards as well.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> While I was in Berlin, at 28C3, I met Anna Salzberg, a French journalist
> doing a long, well researched story on planned obsolescence.
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> She is interested in seeing how companies purposely (and otherwise) make
> products that are designed to break within a certain length of time, or are
> purposely made obsolete by newer products that are not compatible with
> older products -- where the net effect is that you "need" to throw away
> your old product and buy a new one.
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> She is still doing research for this story, which, I think, will be really
> good and worthwhile when it comes it.
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> If you would like to be interviewed for the story, please contact Anna
> directly.  She is cc-ed on this email.
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> anna.salzberg at pltv.fr
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> If you prefer, all comments are annonymous and confidential.
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> If you work at a company that may be engaged in this kind of planning
> (either purposely, or otherwise), Anna will especially like to hear from
> you.
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> Best,
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> Mitch.
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