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Announcing 2 Free Options for Donating Your Used Hardware

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One is for consumers interested in donating laptops and phones. How Individuals Can Donate Laptops and Phones. InterConnection now offers a free mail-in donation program allowing anyone, anywhere in the country to donate a working laptop, smartphone, or tablet by simply mailing it in to Interconnection.

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Top 6 Myths About Refurbished Hardware

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Consumer Reports does great reliability surveys on laptop fail rates. New Apple laptops have fail rates from 7 to 9 percent each year. Most new laptops from the other big computer makers have fail rates in the 15 percent range. Most failures happen within the first six months of a computer's life."

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

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partner, InterConnection, a nonprofit computer refurbisher in Seattle. Matthew Halden of TechSoup and I visited his Computer Reuse Center in Seattle and were very impressed at how InterConnection manages to employ a staff of professionals and volunteers to produce top-grade refurbished equipment. I’m so glad you asked.

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

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At the time, we had a very limited selection of offers, comprised only of desktops and laptops, most of which had Pentium III processors (you get the idea). The RCI program also has a free end-of-life takeback program , in which anyone with an RCI computer can call and get free shipping when the PC is ready for recycling.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

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Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Each of our three winners got either a refurbished laptop or tablet from our great Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) partners: CDI , InterConnection , and PC Rebuilders and Recyclers.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

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Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Each of our three winners got either a refurbished laptop or tablet from our great Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) partners: CDI , InterConnection , and PC Rebuilders and Recyclers.

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Getting the Right Windows MultiPoint Server Hardware

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User stations can also be thin clients or traditional desktops or laptops connected to the host computer using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) via the LAN. Older desktops or laptops can also be used as user stations. This is a great way to extend the life of older computers that may not be powerful enough to run modern software.

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