Just such a waist as we all know there is some value in it. Aluminum cases and precious metals etc.
Presuming that it is an intel CPU Mac, then the simplest thing to do is to install
linux and use it as a linux machine. That way you can avoid the waste problem.
Linux is free software and is somewhat similar to Mac OS (they are both
unix-derived).
If the hard disk is broken then you can easily replace that with a new one for little
cost - or a 2.5" form factor SSD of you want to have an appreciable speed up.
It will be good to use so long as nothing major breaks (e.g. the screen).
Both Mac and Windows systems have this problem that they effectively force you to buy
a new machine every 6~7 years since they make the OS so heavy that old machines can
no longer run it or they withdraw OS support (including virus protection etc ), so millions
of computers end up going to landfill/reprocessing even though the hardware is still
perfectly capable of reading emails / watching youtube videos/ wordprocessing etc.
Until recently all the computers I had used were computers that other people threw out
- I simply installed linux on them. The computer I am writing this post on is 16 years old!
