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On the third hand, they're a recycler. It's unfortunate these Macs can't be reused, but I imagine the Recycler got these for free or bought them and paid scrap
by judge2020 4y ago
On the third hand, they're a recycler. It's unfortunate these Macs can't be reused, but I imagine the Recycler got these for free or bought them and paid scrap metal prices, not "we'll resell this" prices.
- psychphysic 4y agoI disagree. I think apple should run a refurb but they wouldn't as that would depress their retail price. The devices are recycled just for parts. Even the motherboard will have parts removed and reused. It's a lot more work than flipping the laptop on eBay.
- robertoandred 4y agoApple's sold refurbished products for decades.
- psychphysic 4y agoI'm totally wrong. Like the most wrong I've ever been. Well once I made a marmite pizza, other than that I've never been so wrong in my life
- sgerenser 4y agoIndeed. Probably almost half of the Macs I’ve bought over the past couple decades have been refurbished.
- mikestew 4y agoI think apple should run a refurb but they wouldn't as that would depress their retail price. I think people should at least make a good faith effort to look this shit up before gettin' all snarky: https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished
- psychphysic 4y agoYikes I was totally wrong.
- mikestew 4y agoLike I’ve never made a mistake, have an upvote. :-)
- TomSwirly 4y ago> It's unfortunate It's not just "unfortunate": our wildly consumptive and wasteful nature is a crime against future generations. It's not just that our consumption and waste production are at record levels, to the point that we have damaged our climate!, but that they continue to increase at exponential rates.
- widowlark 4y agoThis is incredibly well said, thank you. All of this central control assumes the central control will still be there in the future. Someday, apple will cease to exist, and when it does, there will be millions of unverified bricks that used to be computers.