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Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

Tighmir Sayles — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:50:19 -0000

You can send it to Sussex Technical High School in Georgetown Delaware. They will except it for their Electronics Technical Major. Look it up, its a wonderful school. Blue Ribbon, National School of Excellence

Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

Todd Derscheid — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:26:00 -0000

Give it to a 15-year-old geek. They'll love it.

Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

Savvy Steward — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:25:39 -0000

I agree with Kathy to make it a digital picture frame. If you have a Flickr account, there is a free screensaver program called Slickr that will play a slideshow of the pictures you have.

Popular Science had a great article about how to build it. Do -It-Yourself

Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

thatedeguy — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:52:40 -0000

ebay it.

Take the hard drive out or wipe it very clean first. Be very clear about the issues(battery,flickeringscreen,ac adapter) and you should still net a couple hundred out of it.

Donating it might just cause issues if it decides to stop working.

Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

Nick — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:34:04 -0000

I'll give you five bucks for it.

Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

Matt — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:33:05 -0000

Donate it if you can.

But I agree with Golbguru, make sure you wipe it clean!! You don't want any information getting into the wrong hands.

Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

MillionDollarJourney.com — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:11:06 -0000

Whenever I upgrade my computer, I usually donate it to a local school. They're usually more than happy to take it.

Another idea is to have a garage sale and sell off all your old goods along with your pc.

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Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

Golbguru — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:52:40 -0000

Donate it, sell it, or throw it if you want...just make sure that you "wipe" off your hard drive before doing anything. Especially since you must be having a lot of your personal finance information (if you used it for blogging) on it.

Use a free program like Simple File Shredder 3.2, or other similar program.

I formatted a hard drive at work a few days ago..loaded a new version of windows on the hard drive and after all this I was able to retrieve about 17,000 files from the "before-formatting" state.

Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

Kathy — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:30:34 -0000

I don't know if your laptop will work but the below website show steps to how to convert it to a digital pic frame. Sounds cool. I'm going to accept to do it myself w/ no male supervision. Let us know what u end up doing.

link

Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

Trixie Belden — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:42:06 -0000

Is there a Freecycle site in your area? I've never tried it, but you might get some takers. I have an old computer I'm thinking of listing on there soon.

Re: New Computer Has Arrived, What Should I Do With the Old?

TMT — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:57:03 -0000

Check around with local schools and/or non-profits to see if you can donate it.

Often, smaller non-profits are in need of all the resources they can get their hands on, especially if they're constrained by a small budget.

Ideally, it's a win-win. You can help out an organization (hopefully one you believe in and care about) and maybe get a charitable donation tax deduction in the process.

Good luck with it.

TMT