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What do you do with your old piece of crap laptop when you get a new much better one?

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I tend to just leave it somewhere but I really wonder what you guys would do.

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define "piece of crap"?!

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I have an old Packard Bell laptop set up to run a small Minecrat server. It does that job just fine. 

Low powered netbooks can usually be quite usefull as a torrent box.

 

But I tend to give old laptops to goodwill.

Nova doctrina terribilis sit perdere

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Target practice.

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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sell it for parts

If you need remote help fixing something on your computer

I can help over Teamviewer if you wish

just msg me on my profile

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Give it to me

"We're all in this together, might as well be friends" Tom, Toonami.

 

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Experiment, depends on the condition too.

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define "piece of crap"?!

I guess I can use my old asus aspire one as an example  :mellow:

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Depends how crappy it is. I bet you can find someone to buy it for some kind of money even if its old. Better to make a quick buck than have smashed pieces on the ground to clean up

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I voted for recylce, but you should murica it and give it some freedom

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I tend to just leave it somewhere but I really wonder what you guys would do.

None.

Sell it on Ebay or Craigslist.

Quote my post if you need me to respond.

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I have an old Packard Bell laptop set up to run a small Minecrat server. It does that job just fine. 

Low powered netbooks can usually be quite usefull as a torrent box.

 

But I tend to give old laptops to goodwill.

But like... Low end laptops from 2002 that struggles with starting Windows XP?

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Depends how crappy it is. I bet you can find someone to buy it for some kind of money even if its old. Better to make a quick buck than have smashed pieces on the ground to clean up

Yeah, it's amazing what people buy these days.

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None.

Sell it on Ebay or Craigslist.

Yeah... I never think of that, kinda have some sort of fear of messing something up when it comes to selling stuff  :wacko:

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I voted for recylce, but you should murica it and give it some freedom

YES

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I give it to someone

If you want to reply back to me or someone else USE THE QUOTE BUTTON!                                                      
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But like... Low end laptops from 2002 that struggles with starting Windows XP?

Install Lubuntu on it, and set to run a torrent client.

If that is not your style, you could plug some USB HDDs into it, and make it into network storage.

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Install Lubuntu on it, and set to run a torrent client.

If that is not your style, you could plug some USB HDDs into it, and make it into network storage.

Atleest now I know what to do with my old laptop, thanks  :lol:

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Expensive Macbook-based paperweights.

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I'm a self-identifying Corsair & Nvidia Fanboy; Get over it.

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Meh, I would throw a cheap SSD in there and some more RAM just to speed it up a bit, then maybe keep it as a spare or sell it.

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It meets a sledgehammer.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

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All of my old laptops(not that many) have been used until they die.

Stock coolers - The sound of bare minimum

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But like... Low end laptops from 2002 that struggles with starting Windows XP?

They run just fine on some linux distros don't count it out.

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Holy shit I thought the OP was @_ASSASSIN_ for a few minutes

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