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by magistr4te 383 days ago
I've never done the math on this, but my immediate thought on that reasoning was always that you'd have to burn through a LOT of paper to actually have such an electronic product be more environmentally friendly. Does anyone have concrete data on this?
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I found some data on slate - between 7000-14000 sheets to balance an iPad over 3 years of usage. [0]

[0] https://slate.com/technology/2011/09/paper-versus-the-ipad-i...