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It's still functional hardware though...
Yes, and they’re encouraging people to throw it out. At least some users think to sell on the secondary market, but third party buyers can only get so much out of EOL Windows machines and there are only so many linux users with an interest in buying up old hardware.
I myself have a couple of used laptops, but don’t need any more hardware for a while, so it’s not like I’m able to buy up any. I fear much of it will rot in a landfill.
if they were selling the eol computers for a few dollars I would probably buy a dozen.
yup, its an "oh, you concider it garbage? oh well, more for me then!" situation.