What to do with old laptops

Plucky · 25-06-2014 4:37pm #1

I have two laptops that are just taking up space in my house. One is about 3 years old, but seems like the motherboard is gone. The plastic around the screen is a little crackered too. The other laptop is older, in perfect condition, but terribly slow.

I'm not interested in putting too much time into fixing either of them up, but are there places out there interested in these things?

davo2001 · 25-06-2014 4:38pm

Are you in Limerick by any chance?! :-D I'd take them off your hands.

Plucky · 25-06-2014 4:41pm

I'm in Galway. I've heard these are some companies who will buy old laptops or give discounts towards new ones. Does this happen?

bonzodog2 · 25-06-2014 6:01pm

What makes and models? I'm in Galway, might buy them if the price is right.

Plucky · 25-06-2014 6:11pm

The 3 year one is a Samsung, the older one is a Dell. I'll check the models when I'm at home and let you know.

strangel00p · 25-06-2014 11:40pm

Plucky wrote: »

I have two laptops that are just taking up space in my house. One is about 3 years old, but seems like the motherboard is gone. The plastic around the screen is a little crackered too. The other laptop is older, in perfect condition, but terribly slow.

I'm not interested in putting too much time into fixing either of them up, but are there places out there interested in these things?

Listen, do yourself a big favor and sell them on adverts. Lots of people will offer to take it off your hands for nothing(how kind of them) and then sell it on for a nice profit. Even if they don't work, the parts can be valuable and are worth money.

john the one · 25-06-2014 11:46pm

Do you think you might have any sensitive material on them that somebody may be able to recover without your knowledge?

Consider taking out the hard drives

Plucky · 02-07-2014 8:07pm

strangel00p wrote: »

Listen, do yourself a big favor and sell them on adverts. Lots of people will offer to take it off your hands for nothing(how kind of them) and then sell it on for a nice profit. Even if they don't work, the parts can be valuable and are worth money.

Thanks for the advice, I will do this for sure.

Plucky · 02-07-2014 8:09pm

john the one wrote: »

Do you think you might have any sensitive material on them that somebody may be able to recover without your knowledge?

Consider taking out the hard drives

I don't think there's anything too sensitive on there. Is there a sure fire way to wipe a harddrive?

strangel00p · 02-07-2014 8:19pm

Plucky wrote: »

I don't think there's anything too sensitive on there. Is there a sure fire way to wipe a harddrive?

dban the disk - very easy to do. Just go to this site:

http://www.dban.org/

charcoal blue · 02-07-2014 8:21pm

You could donate them: camara.org/give-computers/give-computers-ireland/

Plucky · 02-07-2014 11:13pm

charcoal blue wrote: »

You could donate them: camara.org/give-computers/give-computers-ireland/

Good call, I didn't think of that.

What to do with old laptops

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