Try Cash For Laptops. They have been around for 7 years and many times they give you a better offer than the competitor sites. The process is much faster and easier than using ebay or craigslist also.

If you have a few PCs you need to get rid of (and you are in the UK) you can use the Remploy e-Cycle service. They will help you re-sell, re-use or recycle your old computers.

Remploy works with disabled people to help them find sustainable employment and economic independence, so by taking advantage of our e-cycle service, you’ll be helping both the environment and other people.

You can find out more at http://remployecycle.co.uk

If you have a few PCs you need to get rid of (and you are in the UK) you can use the Remploy e-Cycle service. They will help you re-sell, re-use or recycle your old computers.

Remploy works with disabled people to help them find sustainable employment and economic independence, so by taking advantage of our e-cycle service, you’ll be helping both the environment and other people.

just send it to mexico

*** does everybody want to install linux! it sucks i used it and uninstalled it im using ubuntu now and its ****! vista is gr8 and i mean it ive had no problem with and my buisness has upgraded to it after crashing off the server every 2 hours with mandriva! (linux) seriously xp it or get os X!

I got relic in the closet. It’s a Phoenix 8088 with a whopping 640K or ram. Sad thing compared to new electronic equipment, it still works. Give your old comp to someone too cheap to buy one. I found a 500 PIII in a dumpster with drives and cards worked fine and they didn’t even wipe the drive either. Too bad there wern’t any scandalous photos stored on it.

Give the computer to your Grandma, Grandpa, or any older person you know, and tell them it is something you found at the Antique Road Show.

There are many good uses of an old computer. For example, open the case of your old computer and place a raw fish inside. Your new raw fish computer will be much faster than anything onthe market today…WOW! Another use would be useing the cd rom drive as a extendable cup holder! How about entering the computer in an illegal puerto rican pit bull fight… I would put my bet on the old computer any day. I also hear old computers make perfect salad shooters, all you need to do is stuff your fresh uncut veggies in the holes in the back, like your audio jack and usb ports, along with your cooling fan holes, and Voila! out of the floppy drive come fresh salad cut to perfection!! I hope this helps anyone with an old computer!

best regards, Josh

Never, ever, EVER throw a computer away unless the motherboard is fried. If you’re tossing a PC because it’s slow, install Linux on it (Debian Linux works well with old PCs). Windows is poorly designed and is the prime reason we see five-year-old Dells and Gateways in the dump already–Windows outdates PCs. Use your old computer for e-mail, word processing, or give it to a kid–or a geek. Geeks LOVE any computer!

hmmmmmmmmmmm… after much thaught i came up with something very very interesting. put the disk into a wood shredder then in the blender then put the shards in a bag and hammer away then drive over it.

i just thought of this and it could be fun open the computer’s casing and smash away with a mallet(wear goggles) or drop it from an unused factory building to the parking lot or from atop a lighthouse onto a boulder

Computers have usefull parts for building siple robots and other devises, but do be carfull wheen removing good parts you could hert your self, leave the power box for at least a few days the capasitors can hold the carge for a long time. the most usefull parts I have found are capasitors. you sould wash your hands after handaling the borads and reserch the safe ways to get the goods. dont say I have not warned you. an easyer way would be to donate the computer to an museam.

Use old disk drives as door stoppers. Stack them and put a shelf across for a book case. pave a path to your door.

If you take it apart, you can use the platters as mirrors, but be
careful of the magnet - do not place it on metal, place it on a
wooden table and bring the metal towards it - and keep your fingers
AWAY.

I concur with wilburforce. Several friends and relatives have asked me, over the years, for advice on upgrading their old, useless PCs and have been amazed to learn that they’re only old and useless if you’re running Windows. I’m sitting here happily running the current version of Mepis Linux on a 6 year old sub-1GHz PC, not because I can’t afford to upgrade, but because there’s *nothing* I need to do that I can’t do on it.

For allmost irrevocable hard disk destruction, another usefull thing to do that may be easier than total hammer-inflicted destruction, do the following:
1: Use a file shredding utility to destroy the most sensitive files you have. These should includew autofill indexes from broswers, accounting software, the like.
2: Remove the disk and open it. Take the platters and drag (as in, surface contact) magnets across them. Use neodymium rare earth magnets for maximum effect. Do this as much as you like, but scratches in the platter are a good indication that you’ve gone far enough.
3: Take a pad of steel wool or similar and scrub the platter, as you would a stubbourn peice of grime in saucepan. Do this untill the surface is thoroughly gouged.
4: Dump the hard disk in with your houshold garbage.

There. Not much chance of data recovery now.

install linux. this will save the cost of buying a new computer. linux will run as good as or better than anything you can buy on a new computer.

1. Go to your local college around finals time.
2. Charge $1/swing at your old computer (the smaller the computer, the smaller the instrument of destruction should be); advertise this as stress relief.
3. Make a little money. Have college kids adore you for letting them give in to their destructive nature.