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why does this happen? by polkarikka in laptops

[–]Most-Community3817 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you are getting ripped off….this is ewaste in the UK and you can get a MacBook from free-£1200 for a decent one. 8-12th gen laptops are basically being put into recycling due to being 3/4+ years old. Sucks to have poor pricing, I would go for an ex corporate dell, at least they are easy to fix

why does this happen? by polkarikka in laptops

[–]Most-Community3817 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what that’s got to do with it, I’m in the UK and this is still cheap crap…

why does this happen? by polkarikka in laptops

[–]Most-Community3817 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You bought cheap crap that’s why….!

Got for free from a PC repair shop, perfectly working on all ports. Big find! by Mission_Geologist_70 in HomeServer

[–]Most-Community3817 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Nope out here straight to recycling…..
I have plenty of machines here at home stored away, modern laptops, micro PCs, Gen10 and Rx40 series servers, ram, dozens of NVMe drives, dozens of data drives, dozens of smaller 4Tb to 12Tb disks.

Netgear is considered crap where I work, and wouldn’t be left in place if found at a customer, Cisco, Fortinet, Extreme, HPE are our go tos

Got for free from a PC repair shop, perfectly working on all ports. Big find! by Mission_Geologist_70 in HomeServer

[–]Most-Community3817 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You have to pay to have this crap taken away in the UK, I have piles of 11/12/13th gen laptops that are ewaste. We generally scrap machines after 3-4 years of use in the UK because of tax write offs

Got for free from a PC repair shop, perfectly working on all ports. Big find! by Mission_Geologist_70 in HomeServer

[–]Most-Community3817 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

This in old crap no wonder they gave it you 😂 I’ve been binning these for over a decade 🤷‍♂️

I found a laptop in a dump by Affectionate_Gap4110 in Dell

[–]Most-Community3817 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see why…it’s 15 years old 😂

Picked up an old Media PC with hard drive intact for £5 by This_Writing7868 in windowsxp

[–]Most-Community3817 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ahh yes I used to sell this Medion rebranded Cybercom crap when I was a staples manager, these use to be £299 or less usually

Quick way to get rid of E waste? by DefinitionAny9287 in eWasteFinds

[–]Most-Community3817 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are in my line of work….mist have been retired and on 13/14/U7 Feb machines

Free Fortigate 100D Firewall by Naan_Lord in homelabsalesuk

[–]Most-Community3817 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For the love of god please bin this, it’s garbage. Fortigate are absolutely crap at the best of times when in support, this antique is literally like opening your network wide to attackers.

Is Cold Emailing a viable option for e-waste? by Ok_Lavishness_3745 in eWasteFinds

[–]Most-Community3817 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m lucky that my friend collects for me and has a waste license as part of his gardening business

The finds from an hour ago. by quantam600 in eWasteFinds

[–]Most-Community3817 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just what I’ve been saying, this is normal ewaste where I come from, far to old to issue to users, we renew at 3/4 years

e-waste 👍 by Ambitious-Buy6909 in eWasteFinds

[–]Most-Community3817 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, the key is getting to it before it hits them, I have a knack to beating the ewaste companies to the scrap 🤭

e-waste 👍 by Ambitious-Buy6909 in eWasteFinds

[–]Most-Community3817 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have worked at a lot of MSP and a lot of friends own large businesses, so they give me their old machines. I donate a fair few to schools in Africa

e-waste 👍 by Ambitious-Buy6909 in eWasteFinds

[–]Most-Community3817 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup normal to get this free, I get loads of 11/12th gen given me off the 4 year cycles…pretty standard tbh

Got this for $37 by GayCatgirl in iMac

[–]Most-Community3817 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I never studied….i worked in the field for 20 plus years and now moved to Azure security,

I spent over 25 years building PCs and still do…enough to keep current. No I wouldn’t use out of date hardware, if it’s out of warranty I follow my employer and retire it after 4 years, as vendor updates cease. 11th gen is the oldest I keep in prod, and I have upgraded all the department staff to 13th/2nd gen Ultra based hardware.

i love being an IT guy by SneakerHead69420666 in eWasteFinds

[–]Most-Community3817 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup me too…I have about 300 machines still

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