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Also, what is your advice on buying new, versus used on other things, such as electronics ?
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My last paying gig was staffing the sales counter at Nextstep Recycling's sales outlet so I'm big on recycled electronics. IIRC the last computer I bought new was a Bondi Blue iMac.
There's a case for new, I like the Raspberry Pi 400 ($100) system-in-keyboard — it's like a modern VIC-20 or Apple ][ with GPIO
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Buy a Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit - Raspberry Pi
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/
Raspberry Pi 400 is your complete personal computer, built into a compact keyboard. Featuring a quad-core 64-bit processor, 4GB of RAM, wireless networking, dual-display output, and 4K video playback, as well as a 40-pin GPIO header, it's the most powerful and easy-to-use Raspberry Pi computer yet.
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—and the ($700) Mac Mini with a machine learning chip
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Apple unleashes M1 - Apple
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/...-unleashes-m1/
The M1 chip brings the Apple Neural Engine to the Mac, greatly accelerating machine learning (ML) tasks. Featuring Apple's most advanced 16-core architecture capable of 11 trillion operations per second, the Neural Engine in M1 enables up to 15x faster machine learning performance.
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Other things I insist on buying new
- socks
- I used to buy recycled toilet paper but now I prefer bamboo.
On cars, the first car I bought was eleven years old. More recently, I've moved up from 1971-79 to the 1990 model year.