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before chucking my MacBookPro to the bin
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Don’t chuck it to the bin, there are still things in there that are really bad for the environment. List it on eBay with a description of what’s wrong with it and sell it for $10 so someone can reuse the parts if it’s really worth nothing to you, or take it to a local computer repair store, they’ll either be able to use the parts or recycle them more safely than just binning it.
Still can't tell if you literally mean "recycling bin", because if you put it in any bin it's not going to get recycled. A recycling plant doesn't know what to do with a Mac logic board from 2008.
If you put it on eBay you can ask the buyer to pay postage. Someone somewhere might have some use for it. Or like I said, a local Mac repair shop if you have one, even if they can't use it for anything they'll be able to recycle it properly.
Also if I remember correctly that's the last MacBook pre-unibody isn't it? Apart from the RAM and hard-drive and battery, which is presumably spent by this point, I can't remember that there were any other accessible components for you to remove and do anything with.
If you put it on eBay you can ask the buyer to pay postage. Someone somewhere might have some use for it. Or like I said, a local Mac repair shop if you have one, even if they can't use it for anything they'll be able to recycle it properly.
Also if I remember correctly that's the last MacBook pre-unibody isn't it? Apart from the RAM and hard-drive and battery, which is presumably spent by this point, I can't remember that there were any other accessible components for you to remove and do anything with.
No. The RAM in the Macbook Pro 15" 2008 is DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz SODIMM. Mac mini late 2009 uses PC3-8500 1067MHz SODIMM memory modules.
They are not interchangeable. The 2009 mini uses a 12.7mm SATA SuperDrive. The Macbook Pro 15" 2008 uses a 9.5MM PATA / IDE SuperDrive. Also wouldn't really be an upgrade, as both have the same read/write capabilities if I recall correctly, just using a different interface.
Are you near an Apple Store? They'll take any computer to properly recycle it.
If not, there are other websites that offer to cover shipping to recycle electronics. For example, https://www.gonimble.com/pages/recycle-details