Laptops

It all varies from place to place, but generally, there doesn't seem to be very much call for older laptops.

What does older mean ? Just an opinion, but i would scrap out anything that isn't windows 7 8 or 10. If you asked somebody else they might say that anything over five years old isn't worth bothering with.

laptops aren't as durable as towers & desktops. They don't have a really long service life. The batteries and power supplies tend to go after three or four years. Hard drive failure is pretty common too.

What seems to happen is that the laptop doesn't power down correctly with a bad battery. You get a head crash into the platter on the hard drive and that corrupts the operating system. The laptop won't boot up because the hard drive has been damaged.

It can be fun to sort through all of the problems and get an old machine working again. It's a good learning experience but it's not really a paying proposition. In order to do it right ... you need to start out with another hard drive that has tested good, a new battery, and power supply. Once you've got the basics, you're ready load the operating system of your choice.



Maybe you've got fifty or sixty bucks invested for materials plus your time ?

It's money well spent for an education but not so much for the practical purpose of flipping a laptop for profit ?

Straight up scrap value with an older laptop might be a couple of dollars after you deduct expenses ? It seems like you could do all right that way if you could do something like fifty or a hundred laptops at a time.There's too much time into it once you get the hang of breaking them down.

Yeah mine are defeitly old they are IBM and Ienovo or something bought them out a few years ago. A