According to the research of the Environmental Protection Agency a lot of people tend to keep the old computers and laptops or their parts even if they do not use them at all. Some others store them for long or even throw away into trash. In case you are the consumer who does not know what to do with the old computer, you have a couple of options: you can trash it, sell it or give it away. Throwing the laptop into the trash is not the best idea since it results in a serious pollution of the landfill. Giving it away make other benefit. In case you sell the laptop, it will save the territory from the pollution, benefits some fellow human being and at the same time you get some cash. If you belong to the group of users who want to get rid of the used laptop, there are a lot of reasons for selling it as soon as possible.

It is a good way to get the cash at the moment. In average you can get about 100$ for the used laptop. If the device was well cared and it is provided with high-end technologies, it can be sold for as much as 800$. Most of the online companies will permit you to sell the computer eve if the battery will be dead and the screen is broken. Some of the places can even take it in case it lacks some of parts.

It is very convenient and fast to sell the used laptop with the help of the internet. First of all, you have to find the laptop recycler. Then you have to fill in all of the features of your laptop. As soon as you select the model and the brand of the device you will be offered some quotes. It is better to inform the company about the broken parts so you will be provided with the most accurate quote.

Selling the old laptop, you are helping the environment since the landfill became seriously polluted with the poisonous heavy metal. The companies that take care about the electronics waste are huge sources of toxic pollution. Selling the laptop, you save one more part of electronic equipment from getting on the landfill.

Besides, if you do not need the old laptop it does not mean that there is a person who is in need of it. It is a way to help some computer user. Before the laptop is sold for reduced price it is usually refurbished by a lot of companies. There also can be an option of selling only usable parts of the computer.

However, do not forget to clean all of the personal information from the hard drive. Even though a lot of companies promise to take care about it, it is recommended to do that on your own.

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While gadget recycling services like Gazelle are handy and more people should take advantage of them, this in-store “ecoATM” is perhaps an even better idea. You put your old phone in there, identify it, and it checks for signs of wear. You get a quote on the spot, redeemable in store credit or whatever — or if it’s not worth anything, you can have it safely recycled and they’ll plant a tree on your behalf.

The first ecoATM, installed in a furniture store in Omaha (???), appears to work fine, having bought over 20 phones on its first day. I imagine if they’d installed it at a Best Buy or in a mobile retail store, they might have gotten a bit more, but they consider it a success and that’s what matters. They’ll be rolling out more over the next few months — check back later to see if one’s coming up near you.

Points in favor of realness: the photos aren’t blurry; we’ve got multiple shots of the camera hardware; the photos match previous rumors about camera placement. Points against realness: they came from a radio show; and the iPod is totally destroyed.

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Of all the places you could send a sensitive Apple leak—with photographs—one repair technician, who claims to be showing us the next iPod Touch, complete with camera, chose “MAXIM Radio with Covino and Rich,” a media outlet that by definition cannot show people images, and where the term “dudebros” is thrown around with some frequency. But anyway!

Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly. Here’s what they say their tipster told them:

-to show it’s real. If you look at the board, it states Apple 2009 very clear. The 2nd gen AKA iPod touch out now, has 2008 on it. They haven’t revised the 2008 touch. I will compare them in pic in a sec.

-BTW, these phones NEVER leave Apple and this one left but it was a durability test phone, (ed note: ???) so that’s why the screen is all gridded off and cracked.

-The side by side picture is the inside of the current gen vs the 3rd gen (one coming out in September).

-I acquired this from a guy that I buy parts phones and iPods from. I believe he’s a recycler in ***********, so what most likely happened is that Apple threw this away and he some how got it and sold it for parts.”

This is strange for as many reasons as it is fascinating—if this is some radio stunt, it’s a pretty thorough one. The lens is convincingly seated and iPhone-like from the outside, and the camera sensor mount—that black box you can see in the disassembled photos—looks just like the casings you see under countless cellphones’ battery covers.

But there’s plenty to be uneasy about. The iPod is utterly smashed, and the technician’s story as to why that is, and how he got the device in the first place, is extremely fishy, to be generous. Also, the fact that it’s broken is awfully convenient—that means that the tipster can’t be asked to demonstrate the possibly home-installed iPod camera, because the device is clearly smashed. Drilling a convincing lens into a dummy iPod is totally plausible; doing the same on a working unit and snapping photos with it? Not so much. It’s all a little tough to swallow, but again, hard to ignore. While we’re waiting for Apple not to send a takedown notice, let’s speculate! I’m not convinced, just impressed—what do you brodudes guys think?

UPDATE: FWIW, here’s a response to our post from their spokesintern, or someone:

I assure you, this is NOT a radio stunt. Or, at least, not on our end.

And the guy who gave them to us has been reliable with tech in the past. I sent them to you guys (after I watermarked them, of course) only because I didn’t know what else to do with them.

To be fair, any fakery probably would’ve been down to the sender, not our sat-rad middlemen.

UPDATE 2: So, some folks are calling Photoshop on this one, based on an enlarged photo and what looks like some nasty JPEG compression. We have the original in very high resolution, which you can see cropped here, or by clicking our top image, and which shows none of the artifacts. It does, however, show kind of a rough cut on the hole, which is +1 for the homemade prank theory. Carry on.

UPDATE 3: Oh, and this:

[Covino and Rich]