Not that it makes a difference to the point being made, but it wasn’t that long ago that the same set of RAM was about $100.
Also, I can’t find ANYTHING half decent second hand around my area or at the dump because they all “know what they have” and try to sell stuff used for more than it can be bought new.
The RAM to fill a 2016-born box I just bought for $600, will be $1600 for used, if I can get it fast enough. I feel ya.
I think part of the problem is that selling second hand on gumtree and fb marketplace is just a nightmare for sellers. You can list it at a great price, and it’ll stay there forever, except for the occasional person trying to score a freebie and insisting you deliver it as well. Or someone who is just going to resell it anyway.
I have a laptop that is $50, working, no takers.
So it’s easier just to toss out unneeded stuff. Which I’ll probably do with the laptop eventually.
Find your local hackerspace and donate it.
In my experience, all of the hackerspaces in my area are completely full, and have no space for further donations. I’ve been trying to offload some materials for a while, they just don’t need them.
I have an address you can ship em to in that case.
Melbourne? Because shipping just isn’t worth it, it’s gonna be $50 minimum.
You send me a shipping quote and I’ll send you funds so you don’t have to pay freight. Feel free to DM me.
You’re US based?, it’s about $35 USD, but the laptop isn’t worth that much.
If I can’t give it away locally, it’ll get ewaste recycled, so it’s not going to landfill (at least not directly).
$50 seems to be about what a large portion of used laptops on ebay go for, so whether that’s a good deal would depend on how nice a laptop it is
50AUD, so ~25USD. I think it’s a good deal, given your looking at 400AUD for something similar at officeworks. And shipping at a minimum is $50 to get it anywhere useful.
But yeah, definitely not a “nice” laptop, it’s no macbook or surface.
Ok that does sound like a good deal, if it’s comparable to something sold new I’m guessing it at least has 8gb of ram, and therefore better than the other stuff available at that price. But yeah, still, I think there is just more supply than buyers in general. I was looking at stats on the sell through rate for a lot of cheaper used laptops the other week and it’s often extremely low.
4gb sadly, but I think that says more about how shit the Australian market is than anything.
4gb is what I have. That’s plenty for linux.
It works, and even windows “ran”, but it started to swap like mad if you opened too many browser tabs, even on Linux.
But it is technically enough.
I have 25 tabs open on Ungoogled Chromium w/the Sway window manager, without struggle, and a few other workspaces and browsers going. But Sway may be making the difference. I think things like Gnome and KDE can be a bit heavy.
Final offer: $15 and you hand deliver it. I’m free between 3am and 3:15am (local time) at the public library in Anchorage, Alaska.
Public library is a step up, usually its some filthy alley behind a strip club
If you plan to toss it away, why don’t you just give it to someone?
Because giving it away isn’t free. It takes time and effort and wading through bullshit. I have given a few away for free already, and the amount of time I wasted just kills the process. At least at $50 I’d be breaking even on time,.
Can’t you simply leave it in front of your house with a label written “free for taking” or something?
May as well toss it directly if it’s exposed to the weather. And it would likely get me in trouble with the council for dumping.
I actually prefer 2008 chips (no spy chips / management engine). And yet my local charity rejects any laptop older than a Windows 7 sticker. So the hardware I prefer gets trashed before I can get to it because it’s presumed too old for anyone.
