They are Dell Optiplex SFF (Small Form Factor) 7040 machines, no hard drives of course, but two have a sixth generation i5-6500 cpu and the other two have very capable i7-6700 processors. Three of them had 16GB of DDR4 and one had none, each has a DVD rewriter and the motherboards are modern enough to have an m.2 slot. After a little attention, all four of them work and I have no idea what to do with them yet. It is a sign of the times that these four potentially useful computers cost me a paltry $45 for them all, and I will do my best to save them, and others like them, from the landfill.
The scope of waste in the electronics industry is unprecedented, the store that I bought these at had probably fifty other desktops a little bit older than the ones I bought, the four I bought have sixth generation "Skylake" Intel processors and the remaining units at the store have the fourth generation "Haswell" processors from 2014 which are considered obsolete by the industry and the brainwashed buying public. If I could buy them all I would and make them into useful "office" machines, however, I realise that behaviour like that will maybe make me change the blog name from TOTG to TOCTG with the added letter indicating I have gone crazy, which I probably already have.
Anyone want to buy a camel?
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