Windows 10 support will be ending in less than two years and there is widespread concern about the amount of e-waste as many PCs won't be upgradable. An unofficial app seeks to help in this regard.
I still see computers in Windows 7. The only people throwing computers out would be large corpos. And the ones in question are already on their way out as they’re 5+ years old at this point. (1st Gen ryzen & pre-9th Gen Intel core i)
They oftentimes pop up on eBay (and sometimes Newgg) for fairly cheap. I’ve seen many older systems like that pop up for a couple hundred bucks with pretty good specs, even by today’s standards.
maybe we can get those on the cheap and install linux on them?
They’re pretty much never thrown out when decommissioned, they’re mostly sold to refurbishing companies that clean them and sell them to consumers or developing countries. So it should be pretty easy to get your hands on them actually. I recently bought a thinkpad T470 for $200 with decent i5 CPU, 16gb ram and 256gb NVME.
Used corporate laptops are readily available from numerous channels. Most buy the 3-year warranty with a planned replacement at 4 years, and there’s roughly 1 cycle per year (which lines up with a new model released each year). These get sold to refurbishers and resold from there.
IOW, figure out which Dell Latitude, HP Elitebook, and Lenovo Thinkpad models were released about 5 years ago. Then head over to eBay, Amazon, Micro Center, Newegg, etc and search for that model. Be very careful on specs - many remove and destroy the SSD for data security, and that often includes the mounting bracket. There may be a wide range of options, from a 1366x768 screen to 4k, or SATA vs NVMe, etc.
It looks like you can probably get a Lenovo T470 for about $150 or so; even less if you’re willing to deal with your own hardware repairs/upgrades.
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I still see computers in Windows 7. The only people throwing computers out would be large corpos. And the ones in question are already on their way out as they’re 5+ years old at this point. (1st Gen ryzen & pre-9th Gen Intel core i)
My living room PC drives my TV projectos and runs Win7. It will continue to do so forever.
Alas, Steam says it will stop working on 01.01.2024 😡 big bummer.
as long as its offline
those sound modern and desirable to me.
maybe we can get those on the cheap and install linux on them?
They oftentimes pop up on eBay (and sometimes Newgg) for fairly cheap. I’ve seen many older systems like that pop up for a couple hundred bucks with pretty good specs, even by today’s standards.
They’re pretty much never thrown out when decommissioned, they’re mostly sold to refurbishing companies that clean them and sell them to consumers or developing countries. So it should be pretty easy to get your hands on them actually. I recently bought a thinkpad T470 for $200 with decent i5 CPU, 16gb ram and 256gb NVME.
Used corporate laptops are readily available from numerous channels. Most buy the 3-year warranty with a planned replacement at 4 years, and there’s roughly 1 cycle per year (which lines up with a new model released each year). These get sold to refurbishers and resold from there.
IOW, figure out which Dell Latitude, HP Elitebook, and Lenovo Thinkpad models were released about 5 years ago. Then head over to eBay, Amazon, Micro Center, Newegg, etc and search for that model. Be very careful on specs - many remove and destroy the SSD for data security, and that often includes the mounting bracket. There may be a wide range of options, from a 1366x768 screen to 4k, or SATA vs NVMe, etc.
It looks like you can probably get a Lenovo T470 for about $150 or so; even less if you’re willing to deal with your own hardware repairs/upgrades.
Is Microsoft trying to outdo Apple’s e-waste record? Can’t they come up with their own ideas?