And how reasonable is it to say these PCs will be immediately trashed? Seems like a straw man argument - I know plenty of schools that will happily run Win10 until 2030
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2229029/computer-factor...
"Study finds 70% of the energy a typical laptop will consume during its life span is used in manufacturing the computer"
Also, at least on the performance/gaming side, Intel's latest chips are huge, hot-running power hogs. Since they are so far behind in process technology, they've been compensating by making huge dies and pushing the TDP. It's pretty bad.
I suppose my critique was more to prove a point that the news can be slanted either way and I find that frustrating.