Earlier this week we asked you to share your tips and tricks for breathing life into an old laptop, now we’re back to share your junk-bin sparing methods.

你们中的许多人通过掸掉旧笔记本电脑上的灰尘并捐赠它们来防止它们报废。马克写道：

My acquaintances & friends give me their old computers when they buy a new one. So I disassemble, clean, install an opsys,and get internet working. I also upgrade memory, wireless, etc. from my parts bin. Then I give it to a poor person who needs a computer. Usually a single working mom with kids.

I also do the same with old desktops as well. They really appreciate them and It gives me the satisfaction of resurrecting an old computer.

Wbrown也这么做：

Donate it via the local Lion’s Club for use by families of sight-challenged children. Always a new HDD, max memory, clean and dust.. Cool way to help someone, and know it will be appreciated.

EchoGecko分享了他过去项目的真实清单：

Here are a few things I have done

-Picture Frame PC. -14″ LCD, P3 CPU, 128 MB Ram, 10GB HD runs puppy linux + WiFi drivers and is setup to ryscn to a folder on my local fileserver, Cost $10 picture frame, power usage, 19-21 watts

-HP Pavilion with 1.7 Ghz PM CPU, 17″ LCD, 20 GB IDE HD, DVD-RW, 2 GB Ram, Wifi N upgrade, Wall Mount in Picture Frame style, + RF remote interface, and ****og radio transceiver installed, XBMCbuntu installed, setup to act as a picture frame, and display weather, entered local radio streams + Pandora, and acts as a HTPC for movies and streaming, acts as a digital radio that can tran**it on FM to my radios in the house:

* Cost about $60 for Wifi N, Picture Frame, RF remote, and radio transceiver. may upgrade to a **all 32 GB ssd for instant on, but not likely. * Power, idle picture frame mode 19 watts, HTPC mode 21-25 watts, Radio mode 20 watts * This unit is meant for use by my mother, who has some trouble using computers in general, maybe its the remote but she loves this, mostly due to the radio features i had added. * No it does not due 1080p, but its only connected to a 720p screen so it does not have to.

-FireWall/Gateway. Converted a gateway 405ROG with 1.4 GHz PM CPU 256 MB Ram, no lcd, no keyboard,no cd/dvd/floppy, 10 GB HD, added NIC ($3 Ebay) to be a untangled gateway, works great running for almost 2 years -10-16 watts

-FileServer, (no longer in use) used the Gateway 405ROG as a basic fileserver, speeds at 7-9 MBps due to limited 10/100 NIC, turned into firewall/gateway

-Flashing Station, Converted another Gateway 405ROG with LCD screen to a flashing station to test/upgrade wifi routers to use DD-WRT, in use for almost 5 years.

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