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What to do with old laptops

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  • 25-06-2014 5:37pm
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    Plucky
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭


    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?


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    davo2001
    Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭davo2001


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


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    Plucky
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Plucky


    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?


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    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


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


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    Plucky
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Plucky


    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.


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    strangel00p
    Registered Users Posts: 284 ✭✭strangel00p


    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.


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    john the one
    Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    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


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    Plucky
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Plucky


    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.


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    Plucky
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Plucky


    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?


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    strangel00p
    Registered Users Posts: 284 ✭✭strangel00p


    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/


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    charcoal blue
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭charcoal blue


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


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    Plucky
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Plucky


    charcoal blue wrote: »
    You could donate them: camara.org/give-computers/give-computers-ireland/

    Good call, I didn't think of that.


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