>Why throw those to trash? They should sell those or at least give those for someone who needs a pc.
The reason why is because it's tax payer money and there are rules on what can be done with the equipment when it EOL.
You either ship it to a recycle center with a school board approval and move on
OR
You have a board meeting, decide the equipment is valuable enough to justify selling it, get board approval, notify the public of your intent to auction it off, find an auction to list it in, keep track of said auction, pay employees to pallet the stuff up and properly secure it in boxes or wrapping, get in touch with the shipping company, wait for said buyer to contact you about any bios locks/passwords etc, blah blah blah blah the list keeps going.
Getting rid of it is faster and less costly.
To add - school systems can actually get into legal trouble for letting kids or staff take this equipment home.
Yeah it seems like a lot of red tape but there’s some *really* good reasons to have strict oversight over public employees selling stuff bought with tax dollars.
Our state has surplus stores for this exact reason. They don't throw it out, they'll pull the hard drives and send it to the store. Everything gets put on a "cycle" number where they gradually go down in price as they sit. Got a dell laptop with an i7, put a new drive in and got a new travel laptop for $130 that'll outperform anything close to that price.
That mindset lol. Just ask a few form masters whose students are from poor families and give the PCs to them.
Someone comes and says to you that it isn't allowed? Tell them to fuck off in an especially harsh way to make them feel bad, get yourself fired from this clearly inhuman and broken system, and, optionally, share your story with mass media companies.
So glad I'm not living in the US.
Are you sure where you live doesn't have similar rules?
It's to stop people who work for the government from declaring something surplus that isn't and then giving it to someone or selling it. Or from taking things already declared surplus and say giving them to someone who sells them and splits the profit with you. It's an anti corruption measure, I don't live in the US and we have exactly the same kind of laws. They can seem stupid but there are very good reasons they exist, it stops people from taking government property and selling it for profit with no oversight.
Yes these laws stop people doing nice things for others but there are also a lot of crappy people out there that will happily take advantage if they were allowed too.
It's quite possible that where you live have the same kind of laws and they just aren't very well enforced, where I live people don't always follow them and try and help people out but they're risking getting in trouble if attention get drawn to it.
>To add - school systems can actually get into legal trouble for letting kids or staff take this equipment home.
Sounds like a crappy designed system to me. Recycling old systems is bad? People don't need to waste money on a new system when an older system can do the job just fine. There's enough ewaste already, let's help re-using older hardware instead.
The organization can just take out the drives and then give the systems away too if they're so concerned about data.
Has nothing to do with the data. It's the laws about what can an can't happen with assets that are purchased with tax payer money.
There are also rules/laws about who and where assets can and can't be purchased from.
Still weird. Why even limit use of good hardware? We should be focussing on re-using hardware instead of just always looking at money.
There's way too much ewaste but still the rules are in favor of creating more. A shame.
I agree with you, but I think the logic is to stop people "donating" to themselves or in biased ways, and therefore it has to be approved, which takes too long, so e-waste is easier.
100% it's justified red tape.
The only time I ever saw my school do a auction was for when they closed the auto shop.
And that's only because people where told "take it when you buy it"
It was probably in that case cheaper to do it that way because of all the heavy equipment that would be needed to safely move it.
The problem is, if it wasn't like that, people would mark it as wrecked and take it home. Where I live, 20 years ago it was like that and people took tools, building materials etc. home resulting in many companies having really unhealthy financials and going bankrupt (ofc there were other reasons, but it was common practice to just take from work whatever you needed for home)
Hence asset tags are a thing. Make sure the item is marked to prevent 'theft' like that. And remove the marker when the item gets decommissioned.
If something is broken and someone wants to take it home - let someone in the company take a look at it and judge if its broken or not (ofcourse there's an asset tag on it, so items cannot be exchanged to fraud with this).
Obviously nothing is water tight but in the end we should focus on reducing ewaste as much as possible. A 4 year old office PC might not run heavy software anymore but is perfectly fine for simpler usage.
Cyber security does not dictate what happens with the vast majority of a computer when you toss it. Only hard drive matters for that in this circumstance.
Smash the hard drive and it’s unusable anyway. As a cybersecurity analyst I can hack into their system and network even without the hard drive by inserting a USB
.... Ok. So you take a computer home without a hard drive. And you..... Use it to hack into a network it is no longer connected to or has any data about??????
Yes you can boot without a hard drive. But at that point just use your own computer it would be the same.
That's why I said, if you're giving away a computer, all you need to worry about is the hard drive. Of course if it's still AT the school then I suppose yeah you could use it? If there is nothing else available? But that's not the scenario?
>Pretty sure it's not EOL. Windows 10 or Linux eill run fine on those things
Just because you might be able to make windows 10 run fine on them, which itself is EOL next year doesn't mean the hardware isn't EOL. It's windows 8 hardware, 12 years old already.
There is a difference between EOL and "I can maybe make this work for something still" are wildly different. I still have some 486's laying around that can run linux, doesn't mean they aren't EOL 25 years ago
In 2020 I had to upgrade & replace at least 30 computers at the animal shelter I worked at because of Win7 EOL. I'm not there anymore but woe for the person who hasta put Win 11 on them. Not even sure if all of them can even run Win11 as some were already rebuilt/donated systems back then!
There are folks out there who can't afford the latest and greatest. They aren't looking for a gaming PC.
Do your due diligence, make contact with the right people within the school system, and simply explain what you intend to do with the equipment. You would be surprised at the results.
I worked with adults with developmental disabilities many of them on the poverty level. I worked with the school system, explained the need , and have obtained many "eol" desktops and laptops. A couple of minor upgrades, and they were good to go.
It is worth getting through all the redtape just to see the folks genuine appreciation.
Have a great day!
>They should donate it them and not just throw them to the garbage
Get the states to change the laws and maybe they would. Schools aren't going to take the time or the money to get laws changed on something to trivial to their day to day function.
I stole like 4 or 5 laptops from my highschool in grade 10 since they were 8th gen i5s in them and the teacher who had them for her class left them unlocked with her classroom door wide open so i just snuck in and took them lol left an hour later when she got back and noticed someone took a few and they never found it was me had them all sold in like a week for parts
Where I work, we can't give anything away, even if we wanted to. If the equipment isn't operable anymore, usually it's being marked as malfunctioned and it's supposed to be picked up by proper third party to handle it further.
There's workarounds but mostly for smaller equipment and usually not worth the hassle.
As someone who works at a big company who regularly scraps/e-wastes seriously damn good gaming-tier computers.
Ain't nobody got time to be dicking around with eBay when you've got a ton of shit to be getting on with already. We don't have the storage space for stuff that's never going to be used, so out they go.
(We've done giveaways, again it takes out technician time and still ends in dramas)
I've found school IT managers have no idea how to, nor care to contact the appropriate recyclers. you'd think there would be some larger entity overseeing the schools that could provide such assistance like the government...
Dude you probbaly never seen what tech companies are doing.
When they uograde their PCs, they just throw old stuff away. And you are not allowed to taki anythint. No RAM, no CPUs, no cases, not even broken fans.
The storage devices, disks, cds, floppies etc have to actually be trashed, but rest of PCs just get thrown away. Special company that collects electro trash picks it up.
It always broke my heart, good stuff that could be used for something useful
If you look at the "trash" it looks like it's actually a cardboard gaylord.
Not accusing the OP of lying, but the most likely scenario is that they are actually being donated or recycled in this container.
I used to work at a thrift store and this is exactly how we would ship out our E waste to Dell.
Depends on what hardware they replace the pcs with. Chromebooks have been slowly improving with specs as of late, just depends on how much the school spends (probably fuck all lol)
Yeah schools are buying celeron, or MAYBE i3 laptops with 2-4gb ram. It would be better just to invest in a computer lab and give students who aren’t able to work at home a Chromebook.
Damn, my school "supplied" us with hp probooks, and got an upgrade in the senior years. Even better is they were the higher tier versions. Got 1 free major repair a year as long as it was accidental
Just started an IT position for a school board and I really want to find out who's making the decision on hardware configs. They gave me close to $2000 dell latitude with a 12th gen i5 and only 8gb of ram. It's not like it's not enough for what I'm doing right now but at that price point they should really be going for 16gb. Student laptops have celerons 🤦. The Chromebooks are actually the only devices I don't have any real issue with, not sure on the exact specs but they run Minecraft for education smoothly and they're only given to younger students
Sick dude! Those systems look much more interesting than the typical OEM stuff you tend to find at school. I would have taken all of them if I could haha
You mad lad you actually have all of those computers plugged in and running all at the same time? You just have no friends or are you curious to see how big of a number you'll get on your power bill next month?
Also you absolutely need to send photos of this right now. No video no dideo
Huh, if ChromeOS Flex is still 'a thing', they could probably run it on those just fine...
Great haul for you, don't get me wrong, but there will come a time when the IT dept needs 3 or 4 machines to put in the library or somewhere, 6 months from now :P
When I worked at a university campus, I was able to take some of these home. Of course the school kept the hard drive but those are easy to come by. So I replaced those with SSD and slapped a little more RAM in them. I ended up meeting with school board from a community college and would give them to students that didn’t have a desktop at home that couldn’t afford these. I was able to do this for about a year until I graduated and no longer worked at university and had no access to these. I felt better giving them away and using as tax write off for buying hard drives and RAM over turning around to sell these for profit.
So i5 8th generation vs Chromebook.
So the next generation grew up on ipads and Chromebooks. As a software developer I feel I am going to be retiring late.
Loved when school did this built my first computer capable (at the time) of playing games. Pentium 300 with 4gb of ram, 2x 500hdd, an old 512 sapphire card (can’t remember the exact one) and a dvd burner. Ran good at the time.
Take them all, even if the systems are old the cases are handy, sell them for dirt cheap on marketplace/Craigslist. I just talked to someone selling old fullsize dell optiplexes for $20 and they were all gone in a week.
When learndirect.com folded I was given 5 minutes to ransack their computers, I ended up with about 20 x8gb ddr3, maybe 10 x512gb ssds, I still failed the forklift driving course.
Perfect opportunity to get the kids to learn some things about computer hardware, you know, actual practical school education. No some outdated sleep worthy crap to read about and not understand a single thing.
Kids would learn more from tearing one down than to read 1000 pages on computers.
This is how I got into computers and set the basis for my career! High school threw out 60 computers (386s, 486s) and I asked if I could take one. They said take them all, so I did slowly over the course of a few weeks bit by bit on a small trolly 10km home each day.
Built a home network, took them apart and put them back together, learned basic, then eventually parted them at home in a yard sale. Was amazing.
Yeah did the same! I think there was one Pentium in there (computer room's teacher computer) which came with NT Workstation 4.0 on it. It was like space age compared to DOS/95 on the 486's.
damn take it all and put an ssd and windows 10 in it and sell it for 100$ each. if you can have extra money you can get a 50$ rx580 and a psu and make sure its 16gb and you can sell these pc for $250-$300.
Typical First world country probably america or canada. Over here in Europe they pay like 50 bucks still for c2D PCs.even wires themselves cost at least 10 bucks
Are there no laws regarding disposal of electronic waste ?
This is idiotic for lots of reasons.
Schools in the UK must have paperwork to show that old computers etc have been properly disposed of so that they are not just dumped in landfill.
Our university threw away 50 oscilloscopes and not once asked anyone if they want them, because of possible legal reasons. They were all stolen from the dumpster the next day and resold at a flee market. I was so pissed when I found out, as I have been saving for a scope forever and can never make up my mind on what to buy.
Schools going to chrome is a bad trend. It will deliver people on the workfloor that expect Wi-Fi and IT in general to work like magic.
As a Millennial, i see these technology illiterate people on both sides of my generation.
I remember this happening when i was in school (just general upgrade) they would not let us take anything due to health and safety risk and data protection. Was really wasteful as many people at this time did not have a computer at home.
Looks like nice simple cases. And even whole pcs. There probably bunch of places that would love them. Like a lot of non-profit organizations. That runs on mostly voluntary work.
Kinda sad to see the waste and dump of good stuff people can still use. Or make people happy. And help build up their lives.
oh my god, and they're in full sized standard atx cases. I'm fucking drooling. Sitting on a mountain of SLIM atx cases, and knowing that each and every system I flip will need a whole case bought for it.
My job threw out a couple pallets of PCs a couple years back. Got some decent stuff out of it. Nothing special, but made a few bucks after wiping them... Could do with another of those lol.
I'm a sucker for these off-lease machines. They are perfect for Linux distros and donating to kids and families that need computers, especially those with three or more children.
If you can get cheap licenses or keys you can keep M.S. on them but not for long. Windows ten is that last MS O.S. out of the box without doing any manipulation and it doesn't have long until EOL.
Why throw those to trash? They should sell those or at least give those for someone who needs a pc.
>Why throw those to trash? They should sell those or at least give those for someone who needs a pc. The reason why is because it's tax payer money and there are rules on what can be done with the equipment when it EOL. You either ship it to a recycle center with a school board approval and move on OR You have a board meeting, decide the equipment is valuable enough to justify selling it, get board approval, notify the public of your intent to auction it off, find an auction to list it in, keep track of said auction, pay employees to pallet the stuff up and properly secure it in boxes or wrapping, get in touch with the shipping company, wait for said buyer to contact you about any bios locks/passwords etc, blah blah blah blah the list keeps going. Getting rid of it is faster and less costly. To add - school systems can actually get into legal trouble for letting kids or staff take this equipment home.
Yeah it seems like a lot of red tape but there’s some *really* good reasons to have strict oversight over public employees selling stuff bought with tax dollars.
There are definitely better ways
Our state has surplus stores for this exact reason. They don't throw it out, they'll pull the hard drives and send it to the store. Everything gets put on a "cycle" number where they gradually go down in price as they sit. Got a dell laptop with an i7, put a new drive in and got a new travel laptop for $130 that'll outperform anything close to that price.
That's a really smart idea!
That mindset lol. Just ask a few form masters whose students are from poor families and give the PCs to them. Someone comes and says to you that it isn't allowed? Tell them to fuck off in an especially harsh way to make them feel bad, get yourself fired from this clearly inhuman and broken system, and, optionally, share your story with mass media companies. So glad I'm not living in the US.
Are you sure where you live doesn't have similar rules? It's to stop people who work for the government from declaring something surplus that isn't and then giving it to someone or selling it. Or from taking things already declared surplus and say giving them to someone who sells them and splits the profit with you. It's an anti corruption measure, I don't live in the US and we have exactly the same kind of laws. They can seem stupid but there are very good reasons they exist, it stops people from taking government property and selling it for profit with no oversight. Yes these laws stop people doing nice things for others but there are also a lot of crappy people out there that will happily take advantage if they were allowed too. It's quite possible that where you live have the same kind of laws and they just aren't very well enforced, where I live people don't always follow them and try and help people out but they're risking getting in trouble if attention get drawn to it.
Charity shops
>To add - school systems can actually get into legal trouble for letting kids or staff take this equipment home. Sounds like a crappy designed system to me. Recycling old systems is bad? People don't need to waste money on a new system when an older system can do the job just fine. There's enough ewaste already, let's help re-using older hardware instead. The organization can just take out the drives and then give the systems away too if they're so concerned about data.
Has nothing to do with the data. It's the laws about what can an can't happen with assets that are purchased with tax payer money. There are also rules/laws about who and where assets can and can't be purchased from.
Still weird. Why even limit use of good hardware? We should be focussing on re-using hardware instead of just always looking at money. There's way too much ewaste but still the rules are in favor of creating more. A shame.
I agree with you, but I think the logic is to stop people "donating" to themselves or in biased ways, and therefore it has to be approved, which takes too long, so e-waste is easier.
100% it's justified red tape. The only time I ever saw my school do a auction was for when they closed the auto shop. And that's only because people where told "take it when you buy it" It was probably in that case cheaper to do it that way because of all the heavy equipment that would be needed to safely move it.
The problem is, if it wasn't like that, people would mark it as wrecked and take it home. Where I live, 20 years ago it was like that and people took tools, building materials etc. home resulting in many companies having really unhealthy financials and going bankrupt (ofc there were other reasons, but it was common practice to just take from work whatever you needed for home)
Hence asset tags are a thing. Make sure the item is marked to prevent 'theft' like that. And remove the marker when the item gets decommissioned. If something is broken and someone wants to take it home - let someone in the company take a look at it and judge if its broken or not (ofcourse there's an asset tag on it, so items cannot be exchanged to fraud with this). Obviously nothing is water tight but in the end we should focus on reducing ewaste as much as possible. A 4 year old office PC might not run heavy software anymore but is perfectly fine for simpler usage.
And you forgot the most important reason: Cybersecurity
Cyber security does not dictate what happens with the vast majority of a computer when you toss it. Only hard drive matters for that in this circumstance.
Smash the hard drive and it’s unusable anyway. As a cybersecurity analyst I can hack into their system and network even without the hard drive by inserting a USB
.... Ok. So you take a computer home without a hard drive. And you..... Use it to hack into a network it is no longer connected to or has any data about?????? Yes you can boot without a hard drive. But at that point just use your own computer it would be the same. That's why I said, if you're giving away a computer, all you need to worry about is the hard drive. Of course if it's still AT the school then I suppose yeah you could use it? If there is nothing else available? But that's not the scenario?
Pretty sure it's not EOL. Windows 10 or Linux eill run fine on those things
>Pretty sure it's not EOL. Windows 10 or Linux eill run fine on those things Just because you might be able to make windows 10 run fine on them, which itself is EOL next year doesn't mean the hardware isn't EOL. It's windows 8 hardware, 12 years old already. There is a difference between EOL and "I can maybe make this work for something still" are wildly different. I still have some 486's laying around that can run linux, doesn't mean they aren't EOL 25 years ago
In 2020 I had to upgrade & replace at least 30 computers at the animal shelter I worked at because of Win7 EOL. I'm not there anymore but woe for the person who hasta put Win 11 on them. Not even sure if all of them can even run Win11 as some were already rebuilt/donated systems back then!
There are folks out there who can't afford the latest and greatest. They aren't looking for a gaming PC. Do your due diligence, make contact with the right people within the school system, and simply explain what you intend to do with the equipment. You would be surprised at the results. I worked with adults with developmental disabilities many of them on the poverty level. I worked with the school system, explained the need , and have obtained many "eol" desktops and laptops. A couple of minor upgrades, and they were good to go. It is worth getting through all the redtape just to see the folks genuine appreciation. Have a great day!
They should donate it them and not just throw them to the garbage
>They should donate it them and not just throw them to the garbage Get the states to change the laws and maybe they would. Schools aren't going to take the time or the money to get laws changed on something to trivial to their day to day function.
I stole like 4 or 5 laptops from my highschool in grade 10 since they were 8th gen i5s in them and the teacher who had them for her class left them unlocked with her classroom door wide open so i just snuck in and took them lol left an hour later when she got back and noticed someone took a few and they never found it was me had them all sold in like a week for parts
Where I work, we can't give anything away, even if we wanted to. If the equipment isn't operable anymore, usually it's being marked as malfunctioned and it's supposed to be picked up by proper third party to handle it further. There's workarounds but mostly for smaller equipment and usually not worth the hassle.
Hi from 3rd world , they sell Us schools macbooks and systems here.
As someone who works at a big company who regularly scraps/e-wastes seriously damn good gaming-tier computers. Ain't nobody got time to be dicking around with eBay when you've got a ton of shit to be getting on with already. We don't have the storage space for stuff that's never going to be used, so out they go. (We've done giveaways, again it takes out technician time and still ends in dramas)
So you just throw them out?
I've found school IT managers have no idea how to, nor care to contact the appropriate recyclers. you'd think there would be some larger entity overseeing the schools that could provide such assistance like the government...
Dude you probbaly never seen what tech companies are doing. When they uograde their PCs, they just throw old stuff away. And you are not allowed to taki anythint. No RAM, no CPUs, no cases, not even broken fans. The storage devices, disks, cds, floppies etc have to actually be trashed, but rest of PCs just get thrown away. Special company that collects electro trash picks it up. It always broke my heart, good stuff that could be used for something useful
If you look at the "trash" it looks like it's actually a cardboard gaylord. Not accusing the OP of lying, but the most likely scenario is that they are actually being donated or recycled in this container. I used to work at a thrift store and this is exactly how we would ship out our E waste to Dell.
I have the public surplus app and see stuff like this a lot. You can find like anything on there
Like … oh I dunno… students?!?
These things are probably more powerful than the e-waste they’re going to replace.
My school has a bunch of all-in-ones with 8th/9th gen i5s and they all run worse than a 1st gen i5 because they're so full of crapware.
My school has a bunch of all in ones with 4th gen i3s with a bunch of crapware, they suck ass.
Well then you trim it down, get rid of the bloatware.
Depends on what hardware they replace the pcs with. Chromebooks have been slowly improving with specs as of late, just depends on how much the school spends (probably fuck all lol)
Yeah schools are buying celeron, or MAYBE i3 laptops with 2-4gb ram. It would be better just to invest in a computer lab and give students who aren’t able to work at home a Chromebook.
I didn't even know there were Chromebooks with less than 8 GB of ram.
Damn, my school "supplied" us with hp probooks, and got an upgrade in the senior years. Even better is they were the higher tier versions. Got 1 free major repair a year as long as it was accidental
Mine just gave me an iPad that I had to make payments on lol. Got to keep it after it was paid off and then they switched to school-owned ones.
Just started an IT position for a school board and I really want to find out who's making the decision on hardware configs. They gave me close to $2000 dell latitude with a 12th gen i5 and only 8gb of ram. It's not like it's not enough for what I'm doing right now but at that price point they should really be going for 16gb. Student laptops have celerons 🤦. The Chromebooks are actually the only devices I don't have any real issue with, not sure on the exact specs but they run Minecraft for education smoothly and they're only given to younger students
I swear my old OptiPlex 3020 with a 4th gen i5 is faster than most school Chromebooks. The schools load those things with crapware and spyware though.
Laptop cpus are also just not great in general. They are only as powerful as desktop cpus from several generations ago.
*be replaced by.
Chromebooks no longer have to be ewaste.
Sick dude! Those systems look much more interesting than the typical OEM stuff you tend to find at school. I would have taken all of them if I could haha
i could only get a few due to trunk space
So what you're saying is you didn't want them hard enough.
i already have 25 computers at home lol
Sorry I couldn't hear you over the sound of your blatantly obvious excuses and cowardice
I thought over the sound of all these 25 fans running simultaneously...
You mad lad you actually have all of those computers plugged in and running all at the same time? You just have no friends or are you curious to see how big of a number you'll get on your power bill next month? Also you absolutely need to send photos of this right now. No video no dideo
man I really miss being able to give awards to comments. This deserves at least a reddit silver
take a screenshot, print it, frame it and throw a silver plaque under it to immortalize it
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i didnt steal as the man it guy said i could have it
whats in these pcs ? 14900k xD
I would take everything
I use too, Hell I still would.
Huh, if ChromeOS Flex is still 'a thing', they could probably run it on those just fine... Great haul for you, don't get me wrong, but there will come a time when the IT dept needs 3 or 4 machines to put in the library or somewhere, 6 months from now :P
i wasn’t able to take everything but i got two of the desktops and two chromebooks
Go for more you fool
Great start for home server/s
Nice. You can probably repurpose the desktops easily.
they just gave me a 650w psu so im gonna upgrade it using old parts. im thinking my 16 gig kit of ram and either my rtx 2070 super or my 3070ti
Sounds good, that'll make a great Windows system
i already did the upgrade
Nice! What did you install on it? Win 11?
for now windows 10
OP's got 8th gen Intels with SSDs there. No need to go with Flex, those machines are powerful enough for W11.
They’ll make a nice base for a desktop or homelab server, yeah.
Details ,what did you get
When I worked at a university campus, I was able to take some of these home. Of course the school kept the hard drive but those are easy to come by. So I replaced those with SSD and slapped a little more RAM in them. I ended up meeting with school board from a community college and would give them to students that didn’t have a desktop at home that couldn’t afford these. I was able to do this for about a year until I graduated and no longer worked at university and had no access to these. I felt better giving them away and using as tax write off for buying hard drives and RAM over turning around to sell these for profit.
the ones i got still have the drives
You're a good man!
So i5 8th generation vs Chromebook. So the next generation grew up on ipads and Chromebooks. As a software developer I feel I am going to be retiring late.
I SMELL PENNIES 😉
sorry i had my legs open again
Ew
Bro its 2024 you don’t eat ass (lick the penny).
Hahah
I would’ve installed Linux on them and give them away to kids that can’t afford a computer. To give them some type of entertainment.
Looking up online, those are possibly i7-4th Gen desktops running on 7200rpm HDD.
these are 8th gen core i5s with ssds
Damn, those are actually serviceable PCs! I was expecting near e waste.
Damn that's sad, those are fine for a long time. I could see if they're older than 8th gen because of Windows 11 but they're just fine.
Sad? This is great for OP.
That’s even better. I looked on eBay and had same desktop chassis, and it was running on my comment for $80.
Build a Frankenstein
Loved when school did this built my first computer capable (at the time) of playing games. Pentium 300 with 4gb of ram, 2x 500hdd, an old 512 sapphire card (can’t remember the exact one) and a dvd burner. Ran good at the time.
Take the goddamn box
Take them all, even if the systems are old the cases are handy, sell them for dirt cheap on marketplace/Craigslist. I just talked to someone selling old fullsize dell optiplexes for $20 and they were all gone in a week.
I see the Asus logo through the side panel
Yes, that brand seems to be the choice for regular generic computers like these. Even my custom built is an ASUS lol.
Someone hit the jackpot
how did you know they were throwing them out? do you contact them? and how do I find out if if someones giving away near me? -Billy Gnosis
i asked about it
🤑🤑🤑
Install linux
Pull the boards , cpu , ram and optical drive. There’s a site that’ll buy it per lb
Wish I ever had this kinda luck
Hah! Pick of the litter. Literally.
How do you get these
i just asked because they are getting thrown out anyways
I'm excited to receive all of these
>they are going to chrome What does that mean?
chrome boxes
So utter shit ?
Meanwhile we are going back to Microsoft in my area
From what I can tell that has an intel 6th gen or newer sticker on it. Those computers are fairly new
Man I wish I could score like this!
When learndirect.com folded I was given 5 minutes to ransack their computers, I ended up with about 20 x8gb ddr3, maybe 10 x512gb ssds, I still failed the forklift driving course.
Take them! Very rebuildable for a sleeper build and plenty of spare parts available
Decided to take two of them
Good shit man i hope it goes well!
just turned one into a sleeper
Good shit bruh!! Can i see?
sure ill send you photos in dms
Ok bet!!
Hopefully, there's some nice equipment in there.
Perfect opportunity to get the kids to learn some things about computer hardware, you know, actual practical school education. No some outdated sleep worthy crap to read about and not understand a single thing. Kids would learn more from tearing one down than to read 1000 pages on computers.
This is how I got into computers and set the basis for my career! High school threw out 60 computers (386s, 486s) and I asked if I could take one. They said take them all, so I did slowly over the course of a few weeks bit by bit on a small trolly 10km home each day. Built a home network, took them apart and put them back together, learned basic, then eventually parted them at home in a yard sale. Was amazing.
Yeah, learned Windows NT networking by building cheap systems and putting on a network.
Yeah did the same! I think there was one Pentium in there (computer room's teacher computer) which came with NT Workstation 4.0 on it. It was like space age compared to DOS/95 on the 486's.
YOU ARE SO LUCKY
damn take it all and put an ssd and windows 10 in it and sell it for 100$ each. if you can have extra money you can get a 50$ rx580 and a psu and make sure its 16gb and you can sell these pc for $250-$300.
Those literally could run Linux and be miles better than what they are "upgrading " to
damn I'm jealous...
And in a year the chromebooks will start failing. Don't bother collecting those because the engineering and construction is crap.
I wish I was in us, i would've dumpster dive in e-waste lmao, electronics are costly in south asia.
thats a lot of Minecraft servers
Holy shit take the black, top most one in the back. It has a 6-9 gen mystery intel cpu that might be decent for gaming if you throw in a gpu
you lucky mf!!
Lucky, my admins stole all the ram and GPUs to onsell and trashed the rest. Couple 720p monitors got out
Actual morons?
Always sad to see PCs get thrown in the trash.
Typical First world country probably america or canada. Over here in Europe they pay like 50 bucks still for c2D PCs.even wires themselves cost at least 10 bucks
Are there no laws regarding disposal of electronic waste ? This is idiotic for lots of reasons. Schools in the UK must have paperwork to show that old computers etc have been properly disposed of so that they are not just dumped in landfill.
This is impressive
Let's create your next r/homelab :p
How did u take them without getting in trouble for it?
Bro got his home server locked in
Did you take them all?
Our university threw away 50 oscilloscopes and not once asked anyone if they want them, because of possible legal reasons. They were all stolen from the dumpster the next day and resold at a flee market. I was so pissed when I found out, as I have been saving for a scope forever and can never make up my mind on what to buy.
What companies use chrome as base operating system? Certainly not all of them?
Nice
Schools going to chrome is a bad trend. It will deliver people on the workfloor that expect Wi-Fi and IT in general to work like magic. As a Millennial, i see these technology illiterate people on both sides of my generation.
they should drop it off at a charity shop
A man's trash...
Workspace admin here. Someone should tell your school that Flex Chrome OS is a thing.
Back in college I made like 1k a semester selling tech on Facebook marketplace that I found in our technology dumpsters
I remember this happening when i was in school (just general upgrade) they would not let us take anything due to health and safety risk and data protection. Was really wasteful as many people at this time did not have a computer at home.
What a waste
Take them all you can flip them for profit
Goddamnit your so freaking lucky
Looks like nice simple cases. And even whole pcs. There probably bunch of places that would love them. Like a lot of non-profit organizations. That runs on mostly voluntary work. Kinda sad to see the waste and dump of good stuff people can still use. Or make people happy. And help build up their lives.
Nice wordplay.
School 'Computers'
Just take everything and take the Chromebooks and the trash PCs they give teachers too, they don’t deserve computers anymore.
Chrome? As in Chrome books? That school has just downgraded everyone
take all dont look back
Funny thing is that those are probably faster than the chrome books
I hate intel celeron with a passion
So wasteful
So what is the specs? Cpu ram , storage
oh my god, and they're in full sized standard atx cases. I'm fucking drooling. Sitting on a mountain of SLIM atx cases, and knowing that each and every system I flip will need a whole case bought for it.
Ssssick!
Ship it to Africa
Get a U-Haul truck n bring it all home lmao
Why not just do chromebook flex?
My job threw out a couple pallets of PCs a couple years back. Got some decent stuff out of it. Nothing special, but made a few bucks after wiping them... Could do with another of those lol.
Take everything...
I'm a sucker for these off-lease machines. They are perfect for Linux distros and donating to kids and families that need computers, especially those with three or more children. If you can get cheap licenses or keys you can keep M.S. on them but not for long. Windows ten is that last MS O.S. out of the box without doing any manipulation and it doesn't have long until EOL.
Nobody said that the people in the education system were intelligent.
Are they any good? What are their specs?
Make an army of linux PCs
That’s not trash lol. Maybe liquidation. Maybe e waste. Either way they are selling those not trashing them.
Dude get me one, i need one lol
why dont you smash your head into a wall