This weekend only for Canberran and Queanbeyan residents can drop off any old computer items including things like CRT monitors, towers and printers.
Usually this would cost $30 for each large computer item!
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cough linux ISOs cough :)
hey! we gotta have them all!
or if you have a working computer, consider donating it to your neighbourhood geek for free.
coughlinuxcoughresurrectioncough
I used to donate older PCs to charity but lately the organisations have become really picky only wanted (get this they were VERY specific) Pentium 4 (2.40GHz) or higher. I was slightly disappointed upon hearing that as I had a perfectly good P3 and P2 system that wanted to find a home. What was even more disappointing is they were fairly rude about it as well.
I wish this offer was nearby but sadly it isn't, nor is any free recycling.
That's pathetic really…
You're giving them your time and day and have a free PC to give to them. I can understand it if they require it to be better than like a 386 or 486, but P2 and 3's are still very useable internet machines.
Yeah, I was very sad to see the charities in itself were starting to be very picky. Beggars can't be choosers I believe the term applies. Furthermore, Kubuntu can run PERFECTLY FINE on it. I really wish I could send it to a developing country, but that would cost a fortune.
At work we had a similar problem. We had to dispose of dozens of GX240s (P4 1.7GHz) but a lot of charities said they were too old and didn't ant them. We ended up having to pay about $30 a unit to get rid of them.
I currently use an ACER Notebook equipped with a 1.5GHz Celeron and 512MB of DDR RAM and run Ubuntu just fine. I can only imagine a 1.7 P4 would run it somewhat better. What a waste of a machine that could still reasonably perform.
I'm really against charities who are somewhat picky, what pains me the most is that they were rude and snobby about it.
Charities basically don't want your junk, just like you don't. Solution: Put them on ebay and give the charity the proceeds. Simple. Everybody wins.
My machine isn't junk (I was a little insulted you implied it was), it's still a practical and usable machine I'd like to donate. No one on eBay would bid for it anyway. But I don't think I'll be donating the money to charity given the fact that they've been fairly rude and picky in the phone call (despite it being a practical machine).
It's not like I'm giving them used nappies or a Celeron 333mhz.
I spoke with one charity a while back. Many people had kindly donated machines to them. But now they had run out of storage space and machines were coming in faster than the machines were going out. That was 8 years ago.
This might apply to the others too …
One thing they could use, was people with the knowledge, donating their time to review whether machines are okay as is or need re-assembling.
It makes me think there could be something in Uni kids maybe ringing charities that accept computers and seeing if they can pick up a good, working bargain :)
Uni kids … or others :)
I did donate my time to a charity a while back and even for a certificate for it. I agree, donating money while helpful, you can also donate your time as well as any other skills.
I thought you can always bring them to apple store, or send them to apple when you buy a new computer? By the way, linux all the way, it runs on my 5 year old laptop very good!
Thanks for this note!! We were going to take the monitor to the tip and pay $30.00 for it last weekend but didn't get around to it.
well if anyone wants to get rid of apple hardware I'll have it ;) The wife will love it….
y pay for a comp to be recycled? just dump it in the bin. screw the environment
Because CRT monitors and such just vanish into thin air after you dump them in the bin, hey?
Or move to a place where they already do recycling days for free. Like Wyong NSW. A side benefit will mean less people in Canberra which will reduce hot air emissions and improve the countrys productivity.
I can't believe we let this one go, can we enter this for comment of the year.
Good one (I wish we could make it +100)
In Victoria, the state govt. has set up a free recycling scheme as well :yes:
Thanks for the link. I have an old PC sitting around but not sure where to dispose of them.
Does anyone know, if you have upgraded but have old stuff that still works, if there is a site where you can list it to see if anyone would like it for free (provided they are prepared to pick it up) ?
I think it's called freecycle or something, I used to be in this yahoo group for exactly this purpose.
Did a quick search, hope this helps.
http://www.freecycle.org/group/AU/?noautodetect=1
What are you getting rid of? I need a new PC too.
:) :) :)
Nothing at the moment :P
Just checking for next time :) :) :)
I disposed of a couple of computers recently (very, very old, used until I couldn't get them to work any more).
I am looking at another computer … though I think I can still get some more life out of it for now :) … I might just need to change the hard drive and a fan (which I didn't feel savvy enough to do, in the past)
best recycling ive experienced is leaving stuff out on the front lawn.
anything remotely electronic will be taken by someone within the hour.We just had our hard rubbish day … computer stuff was looked at but not touched by visitors in the days before hand
Why does it cost money to get rid of a computer system?
to be recycled properly, the parts need to be removed safetly and certain bits got to different places.
Apparently i'm a bad boy for just removing the inner workings and throwing it in the trash, then recycling the outer plastic case.
If you have a working computer, consider donating it to uni kids.
They can be used as servers to share linux iso's