Freecycle meets iPod

The Apple recycling program uses individually tested and working parts from the iPods in refurbished units. Whats left over is safely disposed of.

He must've used a FBI labratory degausser to warp his hard drive.

oooo looks like someone cycled all over his ipod nano

What's with the criticism, people? I think this is a darn fine idea, and is truly a form of "recycling" - turning a pile of dead old parts into working units. Of course, this is not a new idea -- there are groups out there who take old computer equipment, salvage and recombine bits and parts into working computers that they donate to schools and churches and whatnot. But still, kudos to the guy who decided to do this with iPods and freecycle.

When Apple "recycles" your iPod, in all likelihood, they just take it and ship it off to China or Vietnam or some other third world country, where it sits there and poisons the water supply of some poor village. (no i do NOT work for nor do I support Greenpeace)

And as far as yahoo groups is concerned, I don't really see a problem. They may not be Google, but they still (IMHO) have a pretty decent privacy/information sharing policy. Certainly there are far worse places out there. (are you a MySpace user? Congratulations, Big Media [i.e. Rupert Murdoch] now owns you.)

the magnet warped his hard drive? How big of a magnet did he use?

Did he keep using a bigger one because the stainless back wouldn't hold? And finally found one that would "attach" itself to the magnets already inside the hard drive?

FreeCycle's a great idea, but it kind of bugs me that they are so completely tied to using YahooGroups for member interaction. I find the requirements for signing up to YahooGroups a little intrusive...thus, no participation.

Aaaaand again, if you're going to jack an image from another site (Ars Technica's iPod nano review), it would be greatly appreciated if you would credit the source!

I guess you get what you pay for, but I wouldn't really trust someone with a piece of computer equipment if he didn't know that magnets were bad for hard drives.

Hippies

Apple recycles your iPod too, and gives you a 10% discount towards the purchase of another iPod.