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Metech Offers to Recycle Your Mac

Posted by pudge on from the cheaper-still-is-as-a-paperweight dept.

Rosyna writes "Apple now allows the general public to recycle their Apple branded computers. It only costs thirty US dollars, too. The dumpster is still cheaper. More details at Apple's page and Metech's page."

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  1. recycle? by ChristTrekker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People would recycle Macs? Why? I've never seen one actually wear out. I'm using a 13-y.o. SE/30 running NetBSD at home. My 10-y.o. Centris 650 still boots, and I'm donating it. That's recycling. My main machine is 5 now, and will probably serve me another 2 years before I can upgrade, and then it will probably become a file server in a corner somewhere, or another donor/loaner.

    You don't throw it out unless it's dead. And with Macs that takes awhile.

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    Constitutionally Correct

  2. Instead of paying $30... by handsomepete · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...why not take advantage of the very lucrative used Mac business? Sell it. These things are like freakin Hondas.

  3. Apple products break? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously, I have an Apple IIc, IIgs, Mac Plus, IIci, Centris 610, rev.A iMac, slot-loading iMac, iBook, LaserWriter .. all working perfectly.

    The older machines had a little "gunk" in the keyboards, but I took them apart and bathed them in Tune-O-Wash (a deadly toxic solvent that every geek should own a can of) and now they are just as crisp as they were when new.

    After a few years the bondi blue iMac developed a shorted flyback and a busted fan, but I tracked down the parts and replaced them. I think that has something to do with the fact I bought it the day it came out, and they hadn't worked out the kinks yet. Works great as an wireless MP3 player when combined with a wireless bridge.

    If I get rid of these machines it will be on eBay or to a local charity, not recycle.

  4. NO! by susehat · · Score: 5, Funny

    no, please use the dumpster BIG SMILE! hey, how do you think I got my 7 perfectly working classic macs? I got them from the trash. that and a beautiful motorolla clone 4000, a good machine i might add. so, keep tossing 'em out!. hehehe.