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Laptops are the ones that will eventually take the hardest hit and they cause the most waste by far. I have a 15 year old laptop I run Ubuntu Linux on and it runs like a dream. I can do nearly everything I do on Windows safely and securely, except maybe some games. Hell, I can still play Halo on it and it looks great lol. As with Windows 7, there will be tons of Ebay stores getting these machines for nearly free, re-loading with Linux and re-selling. I'm really serious when I say these new versions of Linux are really easy. Its no more difficult than a long time PC user switching to a MacBook. Apple's OS is after all based on Linux now anyway 
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