Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
I look forward to companies dumping a bunch of cheap and powerful mini-PCs on the market. I want to play around with a home server.
If you have a local college, get on their surplus mailing list.
How cheap have you seen the pcs go for?
There is a local tech, college, government ewaste facility near me.
I was recently bidding on fifteen 2u rack servers, fully equipped ready to plug and play essentially, but 5 years old. The entire lot sold for 700 bucks.
A second lot sold at the same time, twelve of exactly the same server slightly newer but less storage (only 50TB) that lot sold for 900.
edit Just Checked currently with 9h left there is a lot 25 OptiPlex computers (sans HD) for 135 dollars.
Yeah, I forgot to mention that most colleges will have an auction site too.
My college doesn’t actually resell computers, but that’s because a local prison has a program where the inmates refurbish old equipment to send out to low income schools. But, considering most of this equipment won’t be usable, I expect us to start selling it.
Based on the prices we sell other technology for, probably somewhere under $50. My guess would be $20.