What to do with my "OLD" macbooks A1398/A1502

[JahBoolean]

Relatives of mine to whom I had bequeathed my macbooks have given them back to me .

Both are coming back with broken screens (no grudge held ;-) ).

What would the best course of actions ?

 

[Amethyst1]

What do you intend to do with them? Repair and use/give away/sell? Get rid of them?

 

[JahBoolean]

What do you intend to do with them? Repair and use/give away/sell? Get rid of them?

My indecision was the driver for my inquiry.

Repair might prove too expensive for reason.

Selling/give away/recycling them would raise some security concerns. But that seems to be the course of actions.

Any pointers on ways to securely deactivate them ?

Might end up casting them in resin and keeping them as art.

 

[amgff84]

My indecision was the driver for my inquiry.

Repair might prove too expensive for reason.

Selling/give away/recycling them would raise some security concerns. But that seems to be the course of actions.

Any pointers on ways to securely deactivate them ?

Might end up casting them in resin and keeping them as art.

Remove the hard drive and list them on eBay as "for parts". Get some money for them.

 

[velocityg4]

Tear them apart and part them out on eBay. You'll get a few hundred if the motherboards are good and cases in good condition.

If all that isn't worth the hassle. Pull the drives and give the MacBooks to a young cousin, niece, nephew, &c. So they can figure out how to fix them or part them out on eBay.

They get to learn something. Plus possibly earn a kings ransom. As far as a kid concerned.

 

[JahBoolean]

aye aye, thank you for the advice.

Will part them out and get an arduino starter kit for the nieces birthday with the remainder.

Have a great day !