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Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Kintaro on 6 June 2010, 20:32 ---Wow, I have better computers sitting in a pile ready to be thrown out. Also, I've never noticed the 60hz flicker. Everyone else does.
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Don't throw them away give them to charity so some child in the 3rd world can watch as much porn as they can.
My old computer still serves me well. It's fine for the Internet and word processing. There's still plenty of disk space left on the old crappy hard drive and I rarely use all the RAM.
Kintaro:
I don't see that donation bin sitting around. I've donated old computers before to a melbourne charity that puts debian on them (if they are super old) or ubuntu and puts them homeless shelters and such with internet access. Not the worst way to write a resume when one has little else left I imagine.
Aloone_Jonez:
Plenty of charities which accept PC donations can be found using Google.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=old+computers+charity&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Kintaro:
In Australia we all go through so many computers it seems recycling is entirely about keeping them away from landfills. I think this has a lot to do that we are the kings of the world in terms of our trade position with a dollar that kicks ass relatively, since we are the only G20 nation that cares enough about its currency to raise rates. As far as keeping these systems out of landfills goes, I am doing exactly that. Because when I refined that search for Australia, I really couldn't find much other than recyclers. The absence of charity doesn't surprise me, because usually when I meet someone without a computer and I have seven spare ones they get given an old one pretty quickly. This is the Australian way. I imagine the recycler probably tries to hock the cables and such, but when its obselete it really is, and they probably just dump them in landfills anyway.
I don't see a big movement to send them to Africa or South America coming either. No boats tend to go in that direction, all the boats departing Australia are usually headed for Europe and China carrying coal. Which we use to buy too many damn computers.
The irony is that despite having the developed worlds worst Internet connection speeds, we probably have more processing power per head than anyone. Actually, my dad got his computer from free from work because they were going to throw it in the bin over a year ago and it has a dual core 3.2ghz Intel processor and 4 gigabytes of ram.
Calum:
in your opinion is that good news or bad news, or neither?
I have wondered about this, we've reached the point now where there's going to be a huge ton of old but still functional computers lying around in every "West" country that nobody wants or needs to use. What's the solution i wonder? Melt them down for their constituent parts? Can you imagine a day when you buy recycled solder, and you can buy video cards made from 100% recycled materials...
btw, about Australia's recycling policy, what sort of situation is it at the moment? Ten years ago when i was there, there was an impressive amount of recycling going on amongst the general public (compared with in the UK at that time anyway), and yet i had heard that much (all?) of the stuff people had put in for recycling was just being stored because Australia didn't have facilities to recycle many of the materials. Do you happen to know if this is still the case, or if it ever was the case (i'm not sure where i even heard this, so it might not even be true).
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