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More Uses For Old PCs and Laptops
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Nowadays most of us have at least one old computer gathering dust or awaiting that final, sad journey to the local recycling centre but it doesn’t have to be that way. We’ve been looking at interesting things to with redundant desktop PCs almost since Boot Camp first started, but now for the first time, we’re going to include laptops in the mix.
Falling prices coupled with the growth in wireless networking has meant that more people than ever now own one or more laptops. However, they tend to have comparatively brief working lives, compared with their house or office bound cousins. They are prone to damage, inherently less reliable and once the guarantee runs out the high cost of maintenance often means that owners are more likely to replace rather than repair.
Nevertheless, many laptop owners are reluctant to toss out their old machines once they’ve been retired. Maybe it’s because they’re small and once packed away easily forgotten, or kept in the faint hope that one day they will get around to getting it fixed, or it will come in handy as an emergency standby. My own theory is that laptops made five or more years ago usually cost the thick end of £1000, when a thousand pounds was worth something. Parting with something that expensive, even though it may now be practically worthless can be very hard. So don’t. Over the next few episodes of Boot Camp we’ll look at ways of putting old PCs to good use, or if the machine has popped its clogs, doing something useful with the parts.
via BOOT CAMP 571 – More Uses For Old PCs and Laptops :: Rick Maybury.
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