The time has come to say goodbye to mustang, my librebooted Macbook2,1 from 2006 as its battery has died only about a year and a half after I replaced it. I suspect the battery's short lifespan was due to the constant overheating it experienced due to the system's poor performance coupled with poor hardware support in Linux. I got a solid two to three years of use out of it and I think was a stellar example of how super old hardware is not necessarily e-waste. It was named after the P-51 Mustang, a plane that despite being manufactured during WWII still is still a very popular plane today. It is being replaced by a Lenovo x230 tablet from 2012, which is a significant hardware upgrade. Some preliminary tests show that it is capable of lasting much longer on a single charge and is capable of playing the multiplayer video games I play making this much more suitable for work and LAN parties. I've even heard of people installing 16 GB RAM on it, which blows the Macbook 2,1's maximum 3 GB RAM out of the water.
I anticipate sticking with this model for the foreseeable future as it does everything I need and more. I'm really hoping to get started on developing a video game soon, so I would like to learn digital art as I'd rather make my own crappy assets than use someone else's quality assets. I anticipate the touchscreen interface will really help in this endeavor. It obviously will not perform as well as the Microsoft Surface or the iPad for art purposes but you can't install a freedom-respecting BIOS onto those systems, nor can you get those systems for $150.
I am naming this computer "vampire" after the de Havilland Vampire, one of the more prolific jet fighters in the post-WWII RAF. This reflects the fact that it was a major upgrade over the piston-engined planes it replaced, just as this laptop is a major upgrade over the old one.
Mustang will live on in storage as it is somewhat of a collector's item right now and I could envision its value growing in the future. It's one of three Apple products in existence capable of running Libreboot (the others being the Macbook1,1 and the iMac5,2). I guess Apple decided to cut costs and use some of Lenovo's hardware or something for those models. Librebootability has skyrocketed the price of several otherwise e-waste Lenovos, so I don't see why it couldn't happen to the 2,1.