How do you deal with your old computer?

We still use ours. We have it set up for our 5 year old daughter. It is a great learning tool for her.

My son-in-law works on computers so he gets them for parts.

I sold an antique piece of a computer once. I couldn't use it for much, but a student bought it off me. I guess she found some use in it. :) Cheers and happy mylotting

This is a great discussion,youless. I currently have 2 computers that I am ready to get rid of but I can't because I want the hard drives to be erased first. There is alot of my data on them and I want to be assured it's gone before I give the computers away. One of the computers actually crashed and the hard drive had to be rebuilt to re-capture the data. So that computer will probably be destroyed in some way as it won't be usable by anyone, except maybe for a part or 2. But still, I want to make sure my personal info and work data is not on there. So, I still have both computers in the closet until I find someone that can erase the data for me.

Give it to some who needs it who only requires internet browsing and some office application.

we have old laptop pentium 4 and its not wasted at all coz my 4 yrs old girl is using it by learning typing and some barbie games.

My husband likes to use the old computers for spare parts, so when we have a computer that has long passed its prime, we save it in our storage cupboard and use the parts we can in something else, and then take what can not be used, up to the recycling centre, so they can do something with it.

i canabilize it and use it's remains to build a better and faster system the rest well usually there is no rest ;)

That is an awesome idea. For me when a new computer comes in I usually pass down the others for each room. And the one at the end (slowest/oldest) is sold for dirt cheap and the money split with the kids. The last one we sold for 60 bucks and each kid got $20. I am dying to get a new computer but I just can't afford it right now. Grrr. Someday......

I upgraded my computer few months ago. I don't tend to keep old things. Except for memorabilia purposes. lol Usually, i go for the latest if I have means. I always wanted to be in and convenient.

hiyouless since I cannot afford a new one right now I still love my old computer, even tho I do need more ram on it as it is low on memory and runs slow. its my only computer and it lets me mylot so I have fun and also make some well needed money too. I can make do til some day when I can afford a new one lol.

my old computer is still with me. though my parents prompt me couple of times , i would not buy a new one, don't want to.

I will trade in my old computer to upgrade my new computer...

Omg! mine to my computer is like falling apart. Its soo slow and i need a new one! As it drives me crazy if i was to open words to do eassay the whole laptop would just off. How i deal with it?? hehe i kind of bang it.... i know i have no patience

I tried to get my old computer repaired, but the motherboard was faulty and they wanted £300 or $430 to fix it and then they couldn't guarantee how long it would last! So I had to buy a new one, the old one I can still use to watch dvds on, but I can't connect it to the internet, so as I haven't got a dvd player it comes in useful and it has a big computer screen too to watch movies on which is bigger than the screen I work on!

my old computer unfortunately is not usable - and to repair it they said would cost $700. Well, for $700 you could have a brand new pretty dang nice computer! So sadly my old computer is just sitting in my closet in case someday i figure out how to fix it myself (unlikely, we couldn't even figure out how to take it apart!) or once in awhile i'll let the kids bang on it.

Previously I have 3 old computers. This is my forth computer. The first 1 I can't do anything with it cause it burned. lol. The second old computer, i gave it to my niece. At least she can play some low graphic games and learn window. The third computer I sold it to my friend. Hard to sell to computer shop because they always pay you low price. Instead of selling to computer shop, I sold it to my friend at the same price. In the same time, i can help my friend to save some cost as he does not need high spec com. Happy mylotting

I put my old computer in the warehouse cause it is useless anymore. I just add distruction to my home. I will give it away to someone who wants it for it is still working.

Many of things can be done with old computers, at least for me, this is wat weve done with our old computers. we upgrade PC every 4-6 years since PC speed was still 90Mhz tops-486DX era. 1) Donate to Science - Old PCs were used as experiment, tweak everything from software to hardware. 2) Test machine - This is used to check Software performance on slower PC and older Oses. 3) Other platforms - Can be installed with different OS like BSD or SOlaris or Linux. 4) Can be converted into POS and sell it small and medium businesses.

I never would sell my old computer! Ofcourse, I have bought new faster and better computers in the last 10 years, but I'm using my old computers to make one great machine out of it! And ofcourse, I can use the feeding, CMOS battery, hard drive disks and the jumpers over and over again! Ok, it may not be big, it may not be quick, but it's still useful!