rob pikeApr 29, 2024

Looking for ideas. Apple offered me $500 for my old laptop, but when I sent it in they say, "Oh, a scratch. We'll give you $100." There's no way a perfectly functioning and upgraded M1 MacBook Air is worth only $100. So I got it back.

Now I'm looking for a good home for it. I don't want money, I want it to have a good life. Two conditions:

1. It has to help make the world a better place.
2. I'm not shipping it, so the transfer has to be local to Sydney.

Show threadservusdei
@robpike I took two M1 Macbook Air's in to an Apple store and they gave me $500 gift cards without inspecting the laptops at all, they didn't even verify they booted. All they did was enter in the serial numbers. If you take it into a physical store they probably won't give you any trouble over the scratches.
Apr 29, 2024 at 9:19pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadrob pikeApr 29, 2024
@servusdei In Australia Apple uses an outside company to do their recycling, although I haven't tested the in-store theory.