[GRLUG] Hardware question

[Benjamin Flanders]

What happens to that Dead Pile?  I happen to have quite a few old
laptops and desktops that I need to get rid of.  I'd like to do it
responsibly, yet with as little expense as possible.  Most of my pile
isn't dead, but just so darn old ...




Share and Enjoy
Ben



On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 19:24 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
>> I find that far fetched. It's just a collection
>> of fairly standard parts. But for assembly,
>> I'm not even sure there's anything in the
>> system that HP makes.  It probably does
>> get good quantity discounts on components.
>
> Having a large number of PCs at my employer - we do see a lot of units
> fail at about a year.  The electrolytic capacitors on the motherboards
> or GPUs pop like a bunch of zits.  Dell will replace the motherboard
> under warranty and that board will last until the warranty expires.
> Then the same thing will happen and the machine will get added to the
> dead-dell pile in the corner of the lab.
>
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