即便一向不愿屈从降价趋势的苹果电脑也推出了低价电脑，或者更高规格但价格不变的电脑。

Even Apple, which has resisted this cut-rate trend, is offering modestly lower prices or higher specs for the same prices as before.

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所有这些假设，还是基于每三至五年丢弃旧笔记本电脑的大致数量维持现有趋势不变而作出的。

And all this assumes that we maintain the current trend of chucking out our laptops roughly every three to five years.

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如果趋势不变的话，甚至连中国——有记载的历史至少可以追溯到3700年前——也只能继续存活1500年。

Even China, which has a recorded history stretching back at least 3, 700 years, has only about 1, 500 years left-if present trends continued unbroken.

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