Goodnight, sweet Prince :(

[acidfast7_redux]

It's like a junk car - the parts are worth more than the value of the vehicle....

You would be surprised to see people buying up a Macbook this bad - small parts like screws that only Apple uses, flex cables, connectors, sub modules, housing components....

I have an private Apple shop at the end of the my street. They have about 30 spares of this vintage stacked up. Plus a nice stack of plastic unibody models, aluminium unibody models with drives, aluminium without drives and shed loads of displays. They looked at it and had no interest as the top and bottom assemblies were dented and the SSD fried. The keyboard hooks began to wear through and the keys stopped attaching once they popped off (worn down by dust).

At least locally, there's a significant over-supply and I didn't the hassle of running an eBay sale for minimal gain.

The shop recommended the council for the recycling.

 

[acidfast7_redux]

Nothing that can’t be repaired, should someone want to. I can’t help it, as an ex-engineer, I don’t accept that such useful things should be wasted (literally) when they can be easily repaired and someone could get many happy years of use from them.

Sure, there comes a time when some things just have to go to the great scrap heap in the sky. But as someone who’s kept every computer and console since a Pong TV game in 1978, as well as so many gadgets it’s ridiculous. Old, spare parts always come in useful.

And yeah, I do still use the old consoles and computers regularly and I tend to find a use for the out of date gadgets. It’s a fun pastime - the wife however, will disagree with that, she’s constantly nagging me to have a clear out....... Never, I will do something with that pile of 50 odd laptops ?

Space it at a premium in my city (it's has the lowest number of m2/person in all of Europe). Less than 200m2/inhabitant.

My district has 17500 people living in 1.03km2, mostly in terraced housing, and having space for children's clothes/toys is more useful than old non-functional computers.

I should note that I do use my 2008 24" iMac on a daily basis.

 

[TrueBlou]

Space it at a premium in my city (it's has the lowest number of m2/person in all of Europe). Less than 200m2/inhabitant.

My district has 17500 people living in 1.03km2, mostly in terraced housing, and having space for children's clothes/toys is more useful than old non-functional computers.

I should note that I do use my 2008 24" iMac on a daily basis.

Oh, by no means was I suggesting that everyone should hoard away all of their old items. I’m all too aware of space issues with housing. I’m lucky at the moment, as I work from home - even before the pandemic, I’ve been doing it for 11 years. So I have a bit of space in my office for my collection.

I was just meaning that you’re always going to find someone who would gladly take, or buy, the majority of things you think - you know what I’m just binning this.

Of course, not everyone will want to, some places do have excellent recycling, so very little goes to waste, or landfill. I was just saying that personally, I like to keep whatever I can of my old equipment, which I will still use. Or items donated, or occasionally bought. Save the planet, reduce waste and all that

 

[nekron99]

Nothing that can’t be repaired, should someone want to. I can’t help it, as an ex-engineer, I don’t accept that such useful things should be wasted (literally) when they can be easily repaired and someone could get many happy years of use from them.

Sure, there comes a time when some things just have to go to the great scrap heap in the sky. But as someone who’s kept every computer and console since a Pong TV game in 1978, as well as so many gadgets it’s ridiculous. Old, spare parts always come in useful.

And yeah, I do still use the old consoles and computers regularly and I tend to find a use for the out of date gadgets. It’s a fun pastime - the wife however, will disagree with that, she’s constantly nagging me to have a clear out....... Never, I will do something with that pile of 50 odd laptops ?

Pics please of the Pong TV game, I wonder if it’s the same one I’m kicking myself for not having saved ...

 

[TrueBlou]

Pics please of the Pong TV game, I wonder if it’s the same one I’m kicking myself for not having saved ...

I’m not in at the moment, so here’s a screenie from an article I wrote a while back. The photo is of my actual machine - an Adman Grandstand MK III. Still works to this day, light gun and all.

They did however do many variations of essentially the same system, over a few years. As did many companies, all using the same system on chip from the same supplier, which I think I blether on about in the article.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

I think I got unlucky. My 2010 iMac was running perfectly, leaving me with no excuse to purchase anything new.

I did consider having a moment of madness, where I would perch the iMac on the edge of my table, and would accidentally bump into it, but I relented.

 

[TrueBlou]

I think I got unlucky. My 2010 iMac was running perfectly, leaving me with no excuse to purchase anything new.

I did consider having a moment of madness, where I would perch the iMac on the edge of my table, and would accidentally bump into it, but I relented.

Get the bugger insured and have it meet an unfortunate incident with a set of bar bells....... never done it, honest guv ?

 

[TimothyL]

If it’s not too late and gone I’d be more than willing to buy it and any chargers

 

[acidfast7_redux]

If it’s not too late and gone I’d be more than willing to buy it and any chargers

Sorry man. It's been or is being recycled. I have a ton of magsafe 1 and 2. All broken. Gf uses them with her MBAs.