Letters to the Editor
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Lovely thought...
...but impractical for those of us who don't have hundreds of dollars to blow on a new screen. I've been wanting an LCD screen for years, but I haven't had that kind of spare change for at least a decade. (My current monitor is a used one that a friend gave me when my original one - eight years old already - finally blew its porch light.)
I know the price of these things goes down over time, but a hell of a lot of people simply can't shell out a thousand dollars for a gizmo. Not even $300 (which is where the cheapest LCD screens stand now, at my last check). We're the folks that have a hard time making the rent, and I for one spend my share of time worrying about what will happen when my screen (or hard drive or processor or whatever) stops working and I can't supplement my income on the web anymore.
The day the computer companies stop making themselves filthy rich and start pricing their products more reasonably is the day you'll see large numbers of people making this kind of switch for energy reasons. Until then, the talk of "green" computing will be something folks with money can indulge in. The rest of us have a hard enough time just keeping our machines from dying at all.