For those who know, I found a G4 and a G3 in the trash WELL, I JUST FOUND AN IMAC THERE THIS VERY NIGHT i booting it up as I type.
Are you sure its trash.......Because why would anybody throw away 2 MACs and why would you go searching through other people's trash....Thats just wierd.
its 100% possible he found what he said... i found a brand new puter in a garbage dumpster..a couple months ago.. its a hp xp-pro 3.2 gb dual core.. a new monitor and key-board was there..no mouse.. i was driving past that dumpster and seen a key-boad hanging out.. so i stopped,looked and removed it all to me car.. it could not have 10 hours on it.. and here it is....pix taken 2 months ago.. its now upgraded and finished..it now has 4g ram a liteon 1693 16x burner and a liteon 166 16x dvd rom..
@Ireland Yah I saw that. I think it is on the first page on the bitch thread. It's not like I don't believe him...I do, I am just wondering why some one would throw out 2 mac computers. Seems kind of odd.
could be that some idiot thieving kid hid them in the trash to steal them later, or the school is actually chucking them out (didn't think you could just dump computers in the bin what with all the new laws on hazardous waste)
Yeah you can, my school does it all the time. Except the computers and monitors are of no use because of their age. You'd be lucky to find a decent Pentium with windows 95 or even worse Windows 3.1. No macs here, only old outdated windows boxes. I wouldnt take any of them if someone paid me. The school system just bought new Pentium 4 dells for the teachers about 2 years ago so they through out all of the crappy computers that the teachers had to deal with around that time. A friend of mine actually came back at night and took a few, and I was just like WTF! Dude those are not even worth taking! You probably couldn't even ebay this crap....
LOL nice find 21Q I believe it, every word.Alot of people think there stuff is broke and don't know much about it so because it's a year or so old they just chuck it.Many times the problem is sooooo simple to fix that it will make you laugh your head off.This is especially with things like pc's which many older people are illiterate about. My dad was driving down the road not but a few months ago and he saw a big case in packaging he stopped and checked it out and it was a $200 cordless drill set, brand new,it had so many accessories it was ridiculous,the case is huge!!!!like 3 feet long and 1 foot wide. He says it may have fell out of a product crate truck.It happens all the time around here too, my mother was taking her usual walk when she found a half oz. bag of primo pot LOL.
@ Creaky : Nah m8, throwing pc's out in the trash is legal, just the monitors they will complain about sometimes... I regularly go and do some corporate dumpster diving, and i've made a bit of money selling refurbished pc's i got from dumpsters... Usually there's a few loose wires here and there, or a faulty harddrive, sometimes it's the power supply, W/E, almost always a simple fix.
I am sooooo p***ed. the other day I walked past a pc that was in a dumpster and I left the damn thing.
Well so farr, I have not found any problem with the computers, the IMac has a small scratch at the top but that it. The ram and hd's are a bit small but I got plenty of extra ram laying around. Some 80gb from ebay and a family pack or two of mac osx 10.4.6 and I can have my own Mac computer lab by the end of the year. Plus, I ain't diving, the computers are just in plain site, so hey, why not take a few.
@The_Fiend, cool. our firm mass clears out old call centre pc's now and then, they auction them off at virtually nothing to us staff, but last time they had a room full left over but can't just dump them so they have to pay companies to take them away 'correctly'. a damn shame but i've got enough pc's anyway, plus there's always the next swathe of call centre pc's to auction off
I personally like both mac and pc (and own both) and agree that both have their strengths and weaknesses.... Any way if you didn't like them you could always sell them..
Well, My computer geek knowladge is limited to pc, so I want to expand my knowladge. and I FOUND ANOTHER IMAC!!!!
