[u-u] Kit recycling

[Giles Orr]

If the term "garbage picking" bothers anyone, mentally transpose it to
"saving the environment" because it really does (if only in a small
way).  And it saves you money too.  Or possibly makes your significant
other mad at you.  But it's all good.

I also consider Above All to be a good cause: I love that he's there,
and have bought good stuff from him on more than one occasion.

On 4 December 2015 at 12:15, Doug Lee <douglee at vex.net> wrote:
> I don't know of anything specific but know of two people who have found
> working core2duo machines in the garbage. I was present for one of them. It
> was a Lenovo desktop with working DVD, hard drive and embedded Intel
> graphics. It had a corrupted slow windows installation and ran great with a
> fresh Linux install, able to play HD video etc. Broken Windows installations
> are your friend!! This machine had a core2duo sticker on the outside and the
> case opened without tools so was easy to evaluate on a chance encounter.
> This appears to be the new normal for garbage picking and these machines are
> more than adequate for most normal computing. I am typing this on a core2duo
> laptop which can run virtual machines, the latest biggest bloated operating
> systems and even a lot of 3d games. I expect it will still be useful in
> 10-20 years. This one has 8GB of ram and most desktops will probably take
> 16. Usually they shipped with at least 2GB. If your friend really wants
> something, walking around neighbourhoods on garbage day may be very
> lucrative. Go forth and garbage pick. The current offerings are future proof
> enough for years of computing happiness :-)
>
> My friend gave his find away to Above All Electronics on the south side of
> Bloor east of Palmerston. If your friend can spend a little money, he might
> be able to get that or a similar machine there quite cheap. Another friend
> in Calgary bought a Dell core2duo laptop at a garage sale for $5.00
>                                Doug
>
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, arocker at Vex.Net wrote:
>
>>
>> Does anybody have, or know of, any moderately modern x86 equipment being
>> dumped?
>>
>> A friend needs, at a minimum, a DVD drive and a motherboard capable of
>> supporting it. The box and a hard drive would be a bonus.
>>
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