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I like the incentive you propose, but in the case of a company offloading 3000 laptops that are perceived to already be EOL, they likely will not find the finan
by jawns 4y ago
I like the incentive you propose, but in the case of a company offloading 3000 laptops that are perceived to already be EOL, they likely will not find the financial incentive to be worth their time. I suspect nothing less than regulatory hurdles would resolve this, and I don't think the recyclers have enough pull for that.
- jefftk 4y agoIf the laptops are worth ~$1000 unlocked and ~$100 locked we're talking about a pretty big loss. Propagating this back up the recycling chain is going to take a while, but eventually all of these companies will have "unlock the laptop" as a step in their checklists.
- namdnay 4y agoFor MacBooks? Assuming they’re five years old, which is already quite old for an enterprise fleet, we’re talking several hundred dollars per unit still. Easily worth spending time resetting them with jamf