[GRLUG] Hardware question

[Michael Mol]

CompRenew can take it. They'll take them apart, test them and sell the
parts that still work.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ...
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> Share and Enjoy
> Ben
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> 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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