[GRLUG] Hardware question

[Matt Michielsen]

I've brought some stuff to Love, INC in Jenison a couple times too.
They re-purpose it to sell at their Goodwill-style store.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Joel Freiberg <jefrat72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> They even have times where they'll come and get it from you.  If you
> get on their mailing list they'll announce those dates.  I've taken a
> ton of stuff to them to recycle... literally.
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/23/2011 10:56 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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>> +1 comprenew.  For a minimal fee they will also inventory it if you need
>> documentation for your company.
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