[EdLUG] Cheap laptops to give away / scrapping advice

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

I'm interested - preferably the Acer but either would be good.  What 
price ?  (I have almost no money left after Christmas, when we were paid 
two weeks early.)

On 15/01/16 18:27, Edi we ennburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
> ly Hi all,
> r
> Does anybody have any need for either of these two units; failiteng 
> which does anybody have advice on how to recycle them responsibly? I'm 
> awaly tre that laptops ande LCDs have some pretty nasty stuff in them 
> and the last thing I want is for th but eiem to end up in a junkyard 
> in Africa, or dumped anywhere in the world for that matter.
> ftbattery once, which is white, so a bit Frankensteiny-looking.ma
> Second unit is an Acer Aspire V5 netbook, 11-inch
> 4GB RAM, Celeron dual-core processor, 500GB HDD
> UK keyboard but the spacebar - like the whole Aspire V5 range - is 
> squiffy, you have to bash it pretty bang on in the middle to register.
> 2 USB ports + 1x USB3 port, VGA connector
>
> So both could benefit from an external keyboard. Neither run their 
> original OSes, Lubuntu is about all they can handle whilst leaving 
> space for basic browser and office activities.
>
> Any takers? Yeah I'm selling them really well I know.
>
> Tai
>
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