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I’m starting to get back into the swing of tech at large, and found a business laptop that fits my needs for a portable low power emulation device. When I look to buy it secondhand, because I don’t intend to burn money or the environment unnecessarily, I find dozens of extremely cheap listings without drives. Are these secondhand from businesses removing and drilling the drives or is there something else going on?

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

all those laptops are probably also pre 8th gen processors.

companies dumped them all because Microsoft promotes ewaste be forcing windows11 horse shit which requires Intel 8th gen +

PROPER decommissioning for devices is to remove the drives.

you're getting Microsoft's forced ewaste

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

7th gen is from 2017. Most corporations are on a 4-year cycle, so have already been replaced twice since then. Very few are motivated by the Win11 requirements.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

they should be on a cycle, not all companies are. it's very common to see a lot of smaller ones not do this