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    01/18/09

    In reply to Australian Hillbillies Accuse Apple of Trashing Salvageable Computers
    I don't see a story here.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    01/17/09

    In reply to Australian Hillbillies Accuse Apple of Trashing Salvageable Computers
    Companies destroy equipment in working order all the time. This shouldn't be surprising at all.
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    01/17/09

    In reply to Australian Hillbillies Accuse Apple of Trashing Salvageable Computers
    I'll bet when he pried the lid off of a cement block, a frog jumped out of a lockbox and started to sing The Michigan Rag.
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    Image of CrispyAardvark CrispyAardvark
    01/17/09

    In reply to Australian Hillbillies Accuse Apple of Trashing Salvageable Computers
    There's a couple of perfectly good mailboxes in there.
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    01/17/09

    @CrispyAardvark - New, Improved! 10% less flavor..: Bingo!
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    01/17/09

    In reply to Australian Hillbillies Accuse Apple of Trashing Salvageable Computers
    After reading the article its clear that whoever was in charge knew there activities were illegal as they were being carful to make sure the products were not visible in the dumpsters, (just like I do when I throw away a couch)
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    01/17/09

    @trrosen: All good couches that have come to the end of their useful lives, deserve a viking funeral, preferably in your neighbor's front yard, or the middle of the street!
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    01/17/09

    In reply to Australian Hillbillies Accuse Apple of Trashing Salvageable Computers
    First off, I've personally salvaged several "near-working" condition G4 towers from my local electronics recycling center that had been tossed out for no apparent reason other than that they were "old". The kids at the local community center didn't seem to care about their age, however.


    Which brings me to my main point: most of the Apple-folk in this world are fully brainwahed into the whole "newer, shinier" mentality that Apple uses as its sales pitch. Since these are the people keeping the lights on in Cupertino, I'm not all that surprised that Apple doesn't want "current, still shiny" or even (gasp!) "last generation, somewhat-scuffed" stuff making the second hand market rounds.


    Australia has one of the largest markets of that kind in the world, mainly due to the hillbillys that are being mocking in this story. I'm certain that Apple is trying to vaporize as much stuff that isn't shrink-wrapped from the factory as possible so that they can actually sell some of their stuff at retail prices.


    If you don't believe me, try to get some replacement parts from Apple for your 1 year old Macbook and see how far you get. In fact, see if you can actually get off the phone without being pitched a new Macbook.

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    01/17/09

    @xbinflux: from the linked article:

    Contacted for comment, Apple Australia Marketing Director Rob Small claimed that Apple does not smash perfectly good Macs and put them in bins. "We only destroy stock that's either beyond economic repair or is been deemed not fit for sale to a customer again," Small added.


    "Beyond economic repair", or in other words: No longer profitable.

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    01/17/09

    @xbinflux: "beyond economic repair" is a place I'm at with my laptop. It's falling apart, and if one more thing goes wrong, for the price of repairing it, I might as well get a new one. As for "not fit for sale to customers" I got a Mac tower a while ago that was doomed from the day I got it. It came physically damaged out of the box, and one thing after the next kept failing. Finally, Apple just gave up on trying to repair it and gave me a new one, an upgraded model, for my trouble. If Apple wasn't going to smash it, I was.
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    01/17/09

    @xbinflux: "most of the Apple-folk in this world are fully brainwahed into the whole "newer, shinier" mentality that Apple uses as its sales pitch"


    Like hell they are. Have you ever priced used Macs, either on eBay or from Apple resellers? The prices are insane- no way in hell is a G4 mini worth $400, or a 2GHz G5 worth $1000, but that's what they go for. Those high prices on relatively old and slow Macs are driven by demand.

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    01/18/09

    @FuturePastNow: And a good number of Mac owners cling to the damned things until they're truly well and dead.
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    01/17/09

    In reply to Australian Hillbillies Accuse Apple of Trashing Salvageable Computers
    im willing to bet they had sensitive info on them and it was determined to be cheaper to thrash them than try to 'clean' them and re-use them...
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    01/17/09

    @undeadmachine: Apple has magnetized chambers they use for errasing data.
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    01/17/09

    In reply to Australian Hillbillies Accuse Apple of Trashing Salvageable Computers
    "How do you like them Apples ?"

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    Image of lpranal lpranal
    01/17/09

    In reply to Australian Hillbillies Accuse Apple of Trashing Salvageable Computers
    gah! they could just unload it at my house! hell i'd drive there and pick it up myself! I'd love to find a g5 or mac pro case to convert for my HTCP instead of my current crappy ATX case
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    01/17/09

    @lpranal and the magic holiday taco dip: Yeah the case value alone would have been significant.


    I'd love to strip out one of those G5 cases and slap a "I'm a PC" sticker on it, just to fcuk with people.


    Even tho macs are PCs, but you know what I mean...

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    01/17/09

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    Sad
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    01/17/09

    @schpeen: Yeah, what a pussy, do your damn job equipment disposal guy!
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