I refurbed a core i series tower. Added a little more memory, an 80 gb ssd for speed, and second 1 TB traditional HDD for storage. Overall good machine and sold it for 160.00 $
The new owner had buyer's remorse and after a couple of months asked if i would buy it back for 100.00 $ . He's always been a Mac guy and just couldn't make the shift.
Even good used towers are a hard sell in this area.
Personally, i'm very happy w/ my core 2 quad. It does everything i ask it to do and seldom uses anything more than 1/4 of the processor capacity. I guess i'm just an old dinosaur.
At least 2/3 of the customers coming through our gas station every day seem to have the little i phones welded to their left hand. They're busy checking their Facebook and texting away while they're waiting for me to fill their tank.
Sooner or later they will accidentally drop it and crack the screen. Off to the ewaste recycling it will go. Maybe they get two or three years out of it ?
Maybe it's just me ... but i'm not seeing a whole lot of value there. They're too small to repair & refurb.
There's definitely a trend in personal computers away from towers, laptops, and tablets to the little hand held micro devices.
Of course there will always be business computers but the definite trend there is toward laptops and tablets. They're portable and can even go toe to toe with some decent gaming towers these days if the customer is looking for performance and willing to spend the money.
Broken tablets ... nah not much value there.
I guess we will have to change and adapt or fall by the wayside.
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