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Yeah it all depends from how much you actually use the machine, My old i7 gaming system runs maybe 7 hours a week on average. I drive barely 10k kilometers a year with my old ICE car. Upgrading to a new gaming PC and Tesla would make neither economic or environmental sense.

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Yes, that's exactly why I emphasized "daily driver" like 3-4 times in my argument. If you hava a gas guzzling gaming PC that you use rarely because your daily driver is an M1 or ARM tablet, then that inefficient PC doesn't make a difference.

My point was only if these old PCs are daily driven on a daily basis as workhorse machines, then the lack of efficiency becomes an sensible issue.

the term daily driver says nothing about the overall distance. It only describes the frequency

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