What do you do with your old Mac?

[FleurDuMal]

Attach a bunch of hard drives in external cases to it, attach a wireless router, and use it as a file server for all the family?

 

[Warbrain]

I usually hand them down to people in my family who need them, or they end up in my closet gathering dust until I have the sudden urge to pull it down and turn it on. Or try to make it into a server.

 

[Jeferz]

What to do?

Add it to the family and grow your collection! You will never get the true value if you trade it in or sell it 🙄

 

[Allotriophagy]

If it has resale value, I sell it on eBay. Did that with my G5, AlBook, Wallstreet, 3400c. It helps to pay for the next "main" machine. Plus I like the idea that someone is getting a useful machine for a good price, which is no longer available direct from Apple. I feel rather grim when I see people trying to sell off their MacBooks and suchlike already, even though Apple is practically giving them away in their so-called "refurb" store.

My Quadra 650 has Debian on it and is currently in a cupboard, doing something or other.

My Quadra 800 is somewhere in Yorkshire, being used to write books.

My IIci makes an excellent monitor stand. Too, too cute.

 

[Glen Quagmire]

I'm thinking of lending my Mac mini to a family member who's interested in buying a Mac, once my Mac Pro arrives next week (yay!). It's only small, so it doesn't take up much room and it's far too cute to get rid of. It enables her to try out a Mac at little financial risk to herself (I don't want her to buy a MacBook and find she hates OS X).

Since I got into computers (back in 1983), I've owned seventeen (of various types - Acorn, Atari, Apple and assorted PCs). Of those seventeen, one went in the trash as I broke it by trying to repair it (with a soldering iron), one was sold through a local newspaper (my faithful Atari 520ST), two PCs were donated to my parents, another PC broke and another computer was sold on Ebay. All the others (11), I still own. Some of them have an emotional value (such as the one I got for my 18th birthday).

I'm not really sure why I keep the rest: I hardly ever use them and they just take up space. However, I just can't bear to throw them out. Old computers are way more fun than the new ones, IMHO.

 

[leekohler]

I gave my first one to my cousin who was in design school at the time. The second I sold to a friend at work (he's now a switcher!) I have an iBook that I'll sell soon for a MacBook and a dual-core PM G5 that I'll probably keep for a very long time (the rev A Mac Pros scare me, I'll be waiting a while). Bottom line, I would sell the PB. Laptops are only so ugradeable.

 

[Seasought]

Hold onto it. Over the years you can make your very own Mac museum. 😀

 

[®îçhå®?]

We normally put them in the garage, there are pictures in the picture gallery. There are nearly 50 computers in there and they all need to be sold (apart from the 2 Mac classics and the PB 100).

 

[dmw007]

Hold onto it. Over the years you can make your very own Mac museum. 😀

My favorite option. 😀


That, or giving it to someone who needs/wants a Mac. 🙂

 

[count chocula]

my sister's using mine, i've tried to technically remain the owner, however. i feel kind of attached, even though is old and nearly useless. its an old clamshell by the way, and it wouldnt be so bad, but its sans airport. 🙁

 

[dmw007]

my sister's using mine, i've tried to technically remain the owner, however. i feel kind of attached, even though is old and nearly useless. its an old clamshell by the way, and it wouldnt be so bad, but its sans airport. 🙁

Macs have a strong way of making you feel attached to them even when they are old and outdated. 🙂

 

[Kingsly]

Macs have a strong way of making you feel attached to them even when they are old and outdated. 🙂

True. I'm having the hardest time getting rid of my eMac. Partly because I am not as aggressive as I could be in selling it. Poor little bugger...

 

[SkyBell]

I threw 2 macs in the trash.

YOU *******!!!😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😡

And anyway, I keep 'em. But I colect obsolete computer's for a hobby. I'd use it until it dies. Then Take all the good parts out of it and sell them. THEN you can throw whatevers left in the trash