It's like me I get many laptops and just get them tucked under a table cause I always feel like I'm trippin balls, in a dream then I realize it's not a dream it's real, and no I was not on shooms, I have a lot of laptops that are old and broken and not worth fixing, I used to have a vostro laptop,cool to see it here
Those older Elitebook 8470p laptops are tanks, and I love them compared to newer models because they are super easy to upgrade the ram and drives on, like you can do it in less than a minute :)
The older Elitebooks just like to yeetus deletus their power button functionality. Mine got so bad that it actually fried something on the board instead of just failing, though mine was an 8460P
A buddy of mine used to purchase skids of laptops and handed the broken ones to me. My task was to fix them, using the parts from each other. It was fun and honestly always a challenge. Dell, Lenovo and HP - all off lease from CDW or another large company. Out of every 10 broken, I fixed anywhere from 7 to all 10. Some just needed a bit of work (micro-soldering). Unfortunately, my health no longer allows for it. I did it for 5 years and paid for my current laptop and most of the gear in my man-cave.
I'd love to find some old laptops, upgrade and repair them, install some Linux distros and Windows/Mac OSs, depending on the model, and see how much I could sell them. I hate when old laptops go to waste.
Those HP EliteBooks are amazing, I've got a HP EliteBook 840 G8 as my work laptop, 11th gen i5 and they're wonderful honestly, I used to have a 840 G3 before they upgraded them all and these things are amazing for office work in general, home use, school, etc, highly recommend it for anyone looking for a a really good laptop for those use cases.
I love these kinds of videos. I wish you guys had some of these cheaper laptops on your site to take a look at. Also that one with the Disney sticker, I'd keep that on there if I bought it.
A friend of mine works at a volunteer place in San Diego that refurbs computers for less fortunate people. They get donated computers and then rebuild and sell them at low prices for less fortunate people. Someone had donated an old thread ripper that he got going for a machine to setup 8 at a time.
did that with 10 HP Probook 250 G4 / G5 machines and a few others last year - ended up with 4 good ones, the best of which I kept - i5-6300U, 16GB RAM, 480GB SSD, 1920x1080 screen
I've gotten a bunch of old pcs from work that they were just going to throw away because of the refresh cycle. Some of the laptops are 8th gen core i5s that still run great if you put 16gb of ram in them. I've just given them away to folks that I know need one.
@@yyeezyy630 Listen to the ending, they call it a "repair-style" video. Go ahead, correct me when I'm actually wrong - but make damn sure you are right.
the ones with bad screen can be used for ghetto desktop replacements using hdmi cable along with usb mouse and keyboard. I've done it plenty of times and they work great.
I’ve sold laptops for many years. From 2012 and to now. I only sell locally and I was making bank between 2012-2016. I was buying them for as low as 40 dollars and flipping them for 300 and higher depending on the model and specs. Most have broken screens, battery and i went even as far as soldering new dc jacks on the laptop. Applying new thermal paste and windows install before I sell them out. My best sellers were hp dv series back on the day and people paid top dollar for those. Even Sony vaios were great. I was selling 3-5 a week but I couldn’t keep up with the demand at the time. I also had the best pictures out of everyone on CL that looks almost like stock pics which stood out on my sales. Sadly it started to die down and people are just relying a lot on their phones. Newer gen z kids only want gaming machines and the boomers are getting old. A lot of laptops I sell now are old senior citizen people that contact me and I only push like 1 or 2 laptop a month locally.
I buy a lot of single "spares or repair" laptops off ebay and fix them up and most of the time they only require fairly simple fixes or a single part and often I wonder why the seller just didn't do the repair themselves. So it was interesting to see your process with a job lot of hundreds and yeah I guess if you have a stack like that to go through you pick the low hanging fruit, swap the easily swappable parts around and shift the rest on to people who have the time to make 1 good laptop out of 2 bad ones.
I done something like this before its a hit or miss but I usually sell them for like 50$ cause most I find are thrown out and I just buy new ssds and batterys for them.
I'm back So this time I am getting a deal for a i5 6500 and rx 570 4gb 256bit graphic card with 8gb ram and 1tb hardrive with a 128 gb ssd and a gaming keyboard and mouse with a 24 inch 60 hertz display all of this for 203.78 dollars
Define awhile in terms of how long from buying to working on them? I buy and flip govt auction desktop, servers, laptops and it takes awhile for some of the stuff I buy to get bought (6mo at a minimum). But love the channel and the stuff you guys do.
Linux or Tiny11 can do these laptops wonder and a second chance on life. I'm dreading for the day that Windows 10 is killed off and the mountain of ewaste that'll follow. But I'm holding out on hope for OS alternatives becoming more mainstream.
I resurrected my Zenbook that was windows 7 from 2012 with Kubuntu and currently it is running ChromeOS. Would be sick if Google allowed android apps on that ChromeOS for 3rd party hardware.
@@GenBumbleBee Unless you're an Apple drone, you've used Linux before. Android, Steam OS, even the OS on your smart TV and car radio are all Linux based.
I was thinking something similar! Depending on the CPU architecture and max RAM support, distros like antiX, WattOS, MX Linux, ChromeOS Flex, or a flavor of Ubuntu would be especially good ideas.
honestly with those hps that have broken screens or bloated batteries you can swap the parts between them to make a decent one and sell it for more than you would get for as parts and the truly broken ones test them and if it boots goes to bios you can sell them complete as functional mobo swaps for broken mobos
How much does it cost to buy this many laptops in bulk? Computers are pretty low margin items but if it averages $100/laptop and costs $50-$100 to repair but is resalable for $200-250/piece, it's a worthwhile side hustle which minimizes e-waste and provides economical computers to those who just need a computer.
It doesn’t really matter with laptops they are self cleaning for the most part. Thermal paste is the opposite, literally more important for high performance laptops
I would buy one with a broken screen if everything else, including the battery, worked and replace the screen myself. I have a really old laptop and it works great with an SSD and Linux Mint. My neighbor had a slightly newer laptop than mine; I installed an SSD and a new battery and it works great with Linux Mint.
Toasty Bros: Let's show you the process of restoring these laptops Also Toasty Bros: **adds SSD to any working laptops and adds "sell for parts" note on any laptops with a broken screen**
omg, it looks like theyre all under threat, im joking but thats a lot of laptops boi, you will have to buy some ram for these boys, the screen is broken ouch, please do more of these, these are very entertaining to watch
Guys i am getting a i3 6th gen ddr4 4gb ram with 500 gb hard drive and 80 gb ssd with a 1gb 128 bit graphic card pc for 96 dollars should I buy it, it also has windows 11 pre installed and 10-15 pre installed games
Hey, can anyone tell me how I could get started into learning something like this? Computer repair I mean, I'm really interested but I don't know where to start.
I was under the impression that glass cleaner is bad for screens because it removes a layer of the screen and that water is best for cleaning screens. Can anybody chime in on this and state thir own evidence?
This should definitely be a series or maybe a twitch stream every now and then. I love it
It's like me I get many laptops and just get them tucked under a table cause I always feel like I'm trippin balls, in a dream then I realize it's not a dream it's real, and no I was not on shooms, I have a lot of laptops that are old and broken and not worth fixing, I used to have a vostro laptop,cool to see it here
this definitely helps those poor college kids/ high school students that need a decent laptop but lack the money to buy new
Ye
Yeah if you want a good laptop get a used one and not a cheap new one because one has better specs and better build
Great video, nice to see how you are giving a second life to these laptops.
Those older Elitebook 8470p laptops are tanks, and I love them compared to newer models because they are super easy to upgrade the ram and drives on, like you can do it in less than a minute :)
The older Elitebooks just like to yeetus deletus their power button functionality. Mine got so bad that it actually fried something on the board instead of just failing, though mine was an 8460P
A buddy of mine used to purchase skids of laptops and handed the broken ones to me. My task was to fix them, using the parts from each other. It was fun and honestly always a challenge. Dell, Lenovo and HP - all off lease from CDW or another large company. Out of every 10 broken, I fixed anywhere from 7 to all 10. Some just needed a bit of work (micro-soldering). Unfortunately, my health no longer allows for it. I did it for 5 years and paid for my current laptop and most of the gear in my man-cave.
I want to do it. please help me in this
I'd love to find some old laptops, upgrade and repair them, install some Linux distros and Windows/Mac OSs, depending on the model, and see how much I could sell them. I hate when old laptops go to waste.
Those HP EliteBooks are amazing, I've got a HP EliteBook 840 G8 as my work laptop, 11th gen i5 and they're wonderful honestly, I used to have a 840 G3 before they upgraded them all and these things are amazing for office work in general, home use, school, etc, highly recommend it for anyone looking for a a really good laptop for those use cases.
I love these kinds of videos. I wish you guys had some of these cheaper laptops on your site to take a look at. Also that one with the Disney sticker, I'd keep that on there if I bought it.
Absolutely should be a series. Seeing that Elitebook 840 with the swollen battery brought back some, corporate memories.
A friend of mine works at a volunteer place in San Diego that refurbs computers for less fortunate people. They get donated computers and then rebuild and sell them at low prices for less fortunate people. Someone had donated an old thread ripper that he got going for a machine to setup 8 at a time.
You might find some matching "dead board, good screen" to pair with the bad screen ones
did that with 10 HP Probook 250 G4 / G5 machines and a few others last year - ended up with 4 good ones, the best of which I kept - i5-6300U, 16GB RAM, 480GB SSD, 1920x1080 screen
would like to see more of the joblot videos that you guys refurbish and resell
I vote for this to be a series. Great channel.
I’d love to see these in a series of videos. This was fun! Grab 10 more and make another!
I've gotten a bunch of old pcs from work that they were just going to throw away because of the refresh cycle. Some of the laptops are 8th gen core i5s that still run great if you put 16gb of ram in them. I've just given them away to folks that I know need one.
i wish if you could benchmark them
Heres a video idea " Bench marking a 100 cheap laptops to see which ones you should buy"
I still have the old Toshiba laptop from 2007-8. I'm pretty sure it was a Core Duo, it runs Linux now.
I would enjoy seeing more repair/restore videos.
This is refurbishing completely different then restoring
@@yyeezyy630 Listen to the ending, they call it a "repair-style" video. Go ahead, correct me when I'm actually wrong - but make damn sure you are right.
the ones with bad screen can be used for ghetto desktop replacements using hdmi cable along with usb mouse and keyboard. I've done it plenty of times and they work great.
I’ve sold laptops for many years. From 2012 and to now. I only sell locally and I was making bank between 2012-2016. I was buying them for as low as 40 dollars and flipping them for 300 and higher depending on the model and specs. Most have broken screens, battery and i went even as far as soldering new dc jacks on the laptop. Applying new thermal paste and windows install before I sell them out. My best sellers were hp dv series back on the day and people paid top dollar for those. Even Sony vaios were great. I was selling 3-5 a week but I couldn’t keep up with the demand at the time. I also had the best pictures out of everyone on CL that looks almost like stock pics which stood out on my sales. Sadly it started to die down and people are just relying a lot on their phones. Newer gen z kids only want gaming machines and the boomers are getting old. A lot of laptops I sell now are old senior citizen people that contact me and I only push like 1 or 2 laptop a month locally.
That Dell is the younger brother of my Latitude E5540. They are built like tanks.
I buy a lot of single "spares or repair" laptops off ebay and fix them up and most of the time they only require fairly simple fixes or a single part and often I wonder why the seller just didn't do the repair themselves. So it was interesting to see your process with a job lot of hundreds and yeah I guess if you have a stack like that to go through you pick the low hanging fruit, swap the easily swappable parts around and shift the rest on to people who have the time to make 1 good laptop out of 2 bad ones.
It was a diferent vídeo but i love to see old tech coming back to life good job guys.👌
Toasty bros on emaar hills estate
those are the standard business laptops (we got the same models over the last years) ;) feel great to work on!
I done something like this before its a hit or miss but I usually sell them for like 50$ cause most I find are thrown out and I just buy new ssds and batterys for them.
Be great to see you doing some consoles like this.
One of the better vids I've seen from you guy's. Good work.
Should check with a monitor if the hardware still works if the screens dead, could still use it that way
Can you make a follow up video about how much profit was made
Gonna do a follow up?? Would like to see a deeper dive
100 laptops is crazy
Plz continue this series! I might start selling laptops sometime in the future
Wish these videos were longer 10 minutes is not enough
Guys I'm trying to play halo reach for the first time... can you stop distracting me please?
No.
I'm back So this time I am getting a deal for a i5 6500 and rx 570 4gb 256bit graphic card with 8gb ram and 1tb hardrive with a 128 gb ssd and a gaming keyboard and mouse with a 24 inch 60 hertz display all of this for 203.78 dollars
Hey, I got a budget of 2-2.5k and I mostly play Valorant and Dota 2. Which gaming laptop should I get? I prefer more durable one. Any suggestions?
I really like this as a series
Didn't you guys go ahead and do thermal paste when you had them open to check RAM and SSDs?
hope you updated the bios on them too.
Are you guys flexing with that title? How much did you spend? 😂
Definitely enjoy this. Would definitely like to see desktop. 👍
Define awhile in terms of how long from buying to working on them? I buy and flip govt auction desktop, servers, laptops and it takes awhile for some of the stuff I buy to get bought (6mo at a minimum). But love the channel and the stuff you guys do.
Linux or Tiny11 can do these laptops wonder and a second chance on life.
I'm dreading for the day that Windows 10 is killed off and the mountain of ewaste that'll follow. But I'm holding out on hope for OS alternatives becoming more mainstream.
I resurrected my Zenbook that was windows 7 from 2012 with Kubuntu and currently it is running ChromeOS. Would be sick if Google allowed android apps on that ChromeOS for 3rd party hardware.
imagine using linux.
@@GenBumbleBee Unless you're an Apple drone, you've used Linux before.
Android, Steam OS, even the OS on your smart TV and car radio are all Linux based.
I was thinking something similar!
Depending on the CPU architecture and max RAM support, distros like antiX, WattOS, MX Linux, ChromeOS Flex, or a flavor of Ubuntu would be especially good ideas.
@@eddiew.4650 imagine thinking I daily drive MacOS. I'm a windows master race user.
Good to see you were able to recycle many of these laptops.
Great episode! would like to see more
Thanks guys becase of your tutorial videos was able to install my first gpu
honestly with those hps that have broken screens or bloated batteries you can swap the parts between them to make a decent one and sell it for more than you would get for as parts and the truly broken ones test them and if it boots goes to bios you can sell them complete as functional mobo swaps for broken mobos
How much does it cost to buy this many laptops in bulk? Computers are pretty low margin items but if it averages $100/laptop and costs $50-$100 to repair but is resalable for $200-250/piece, it's a worthwhile side hustle which minimizes e-waste and provides economical computers to those who just need a computer.
are you guys going to at least re apply the thermal paste on the ones that are good???? a dusting at least???
It doesn’t really matter with laptops they are self cleaning for the most part. Thermal paste is the opposite, literally more important for high performance laptops
Yes more of this and let's get into the weeds repairing hardware 👍👍
dude your so underrated
It would be cool to make gaming laptops out of these with the egpus.
Great video as always guys!
I love y'all's content just wish the videos were longer
I would buy one with a broken screen if everything else, including the battery, worked and replace the screen myself. I have a really old laptop and it works great with an SSD and Linux Mint. My neighbor had a slightly newer laptop than mine; I installed an SSD and a new battery and it works great with Linux Mint.
Loved it... More would be great.
Send one please and how much is it?
Toasty Bros: Let's show you the process of restoring these laptops
Also Toasty Bros: **adds SSD to any working laptops and adds "sell for parts" note on any laptops with a broken screen**
When you have a ton it’s much more valuable time wise to do it that way, let someone else do the most time consuming work.
What was the final count on good vs. dude?
This i the closet of laptops
This is the closet of laptops i misspell
omg, it looks like theyre all under threat, im joking but thats a lot of laptops boi, you will have to buy some ram for these boys, the screen is broken ouch, please do more of these, these are very entertaining to watch
I love the vids subscribed
Where did you buy all these laptops?
it would really help me in my education if i’ve got one random pc…in my country it is considered luxury..
I did this for like 3 years to make side money.
Just filled out the form
Where do you find these bulk laptops from?
I love this kind of content
Are these up for a giveaway worldwide?
Oh, Dell Vostro like mine!!!
Is it a 3560 model????
You can stick there mSata ssd!!!!
Definitely a great plan to save still useful tech from going to landfil, more like this PSE.
I like videos like this because I fix Iaptopa too.
Where can i buy one of those working hp elitebooks from you??
info on the for parts laptops
Guys i am getting a i3 6th gen ddr4 4gb ram with 500 gb hard drive and 80 gb ssd with a 1gb 128 bit graphic card pc for 96 dollars should I buy it, it also has windows 11 pre installed and 10-15 pre installed games
Why don't you show how to fix them or how you can cannibalize the broken ones to make one good one, might be fun to see. Thanks
Ebay has tons of 6th gen i7 hp notebooks under 200 usd refurb
where did you guys buy them?
Where do you buy from ???
Will you buy a old gaming console and show dk oldies how to properly refurbish it
yo you have mushkin tempest is it good?
DKoldies could learn a thing or ten from this
yo toast those probooks are none for bad motherboard's and display drives i use em for school.
If half of them work in some function you should be able to make a few bucks off of them!
No hoodie video got a like from me.
Where is your store
Mostly laptops I get needs a battery a charger and a harddrive
How to buy those wholesale laptop?
Please do you know where i can get used/non tested laptops,computer parts and playstation in Uk (bulk purchase
giving dkoldies a run for their money xD
Day one for asking for a custom toast pc
How many meet Win11 spec?
Unrelated to the vid but if I switch motherboards but have the same components do I need to reinstall windows?
If it's the same platform, no. If you're changing from AMD to Intel or upgrading to a different socket, it is recommended.
I need to learn how to put windows on a chromebook because chromebooks go cheap in the black market
More of the repair videos, please, pretty please!!!!!!😊
Buys 8 laptops. Titles video with 100. Why not?
Hey, can anyone tell me how I could get started into learning something like this? Computer repair I mean, I'm really interested but I don't know where to start.
I've learned most of what I knew by fixing laptops and PCs of my friends, family etc.
I'm no master but if you really just want a task, try to change a laptop's ram, it's generally an easy process with low risk and high applicability
Mrbeast type content, I like it
I was under the impression that glass cleaner is bad for screens because it removes a layer of the screen and that water is best for cleaning screens. Can anybody chime in on this and state thir own evidence?