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On March 15, 2004, I posted this The Road Warrior column, lamenting the "throwaway" nature of personal computers. Unhappily, more than four years later, while there have been some advances in making computers more environmentally-friendly, the sorry fact remains that a three-year-old personal computer is pretty much obsolete for serious users, and Apple's notebooks are in most respects less amenable to upgrading than they ever were. I'm still getting great, workhorse service from a somewhat hotrodded 2000 Pismo PowerBook for light to moderate duty use, but the Pismo was the last really seriously upgradable Apple 'Book. What we need is new laptop designs as upgradable as the Pismo, although Apple seems to be oriented in the opposite direction from that. As I concluded in the article republished below, C'mon Apple; you can do better.