Recession Pushes IT To Find New Value In Old Gear 206
buzzardsbay writes "Trying to put a bright spin on a gloomy subject, the folks at eWEEK unearth an emerging trend: There's a booming cottage industry of dealers in refurbished computer and networking gear serving folks on the hunt for 'slightly used' and 'new to you' equipment. The dealers selling the stuff tell eWEEK the equipment is practically new, most of it less than a year old, and that the prices for things like servers and routers are lower than they have been since the post dot-com / Sept. 11 days in 2001. Used gear isn't for everybody, obviously. The story points out that while many of these used IT dealers offer configuration services, they don't do installs, and most are not authorized resellers. They do, however, offer decent warranties, so if you can do some of the work yourself, you'll probably be OK."
Sweet (Score:2, Funny)
This Just In. (Score:5, Funny)
Old Gear (Score:2, Funny)
Hey! I can fire-up my Amiga 1000, 2000 and 4000!
Damm, I'm cutting edge again!
Re:This Just In. (Score:5, Funny)
Translation: This story needs a 'captainobviousstrikesagain' tag?
I found the ???! (Score:5, Funny)
How to make money when times are hard:
1. Buy oodles of cheap hardware
2. Search it for confidential info
3. Blackmail
4. Profit!
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
Your going to need some more marketing spin on it.
"I am being forced to sell my Computer to pay rent, paid $6000 new, and have added $2000 in upgrades, I will let go for just $4000 to the first lucky person to bring cash.
Thanks to Vista, this model is very difficult to come by, it comes preloaded with over $1000 worth of software."
Then just load it with linux, openoffice, and all the free games you can find"
Help.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Help.. (Score:5, Funny)
XP won't install on the Cat 7000 I just bought from a firesale. OMG what should I do???? {:-)
You should be using Vista obviously.
Re:Help.. (Score:4, Funny)
Vista won't install on the Cat 7000 I just bought from a firesale. OMG what should I do???? {:-)
Re:Hooray for the landfills! (Score:2, Funny)
The computer and electronics industry are filthy industries.
Yes, for example, I've heard that it's more and more common for automatic garbage collectors, in languages with that functionality, to take all the dirty memory that is no longer used, and smuggle it to third world countries, where the data ends up in large heaps in the countryside, polluting the precious bodily fluids of the local people.
Re:Help.. (Score:5, Funny)
Vista won't install on the Cat 7000 I just bought from a firesale. OMG what should I do???? {:-)
You cheaped out and got the basic version of Vista. I think Vista Ultimate runs on the Cat.
Thrifty (Score:1, Funny)
How's this for being resourceful. Turning an old iPod Classic in to an external drive by partitioning it and putting Linux on it. It still runs and plays music too.
Yeah, I can't afford an external drive.
how about.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
Your going to need some more marketing spin on it.
"Vista Ready."
Re:Sweet (Score:4, Funny)
I tested it, bought a couple cheap probes, and then sat on it for a year.
Very, very bad visual, that.
Well (Score:3, Funny)
Since you asked,
Your mom is so poor, a 386DX *is* worth more then her house.
She is also so dumb, the 386DX has more transistors then she has brain cells.
She is also so fat, you can throw a 386DX at her and it will float around her in orbit.
(ps: booya)
Re:Sweet (Score:1, Funny)
a "Vista Ready" computer is like a "Hurricane proof" house. It's nice to know, but you hope to never actually use it.
Re:This Just In. (Score:1, Funny)