If you’re upgrading to a newer, faster laptop with more storage, have you thought about what you’ll do with your old laptop? There’s no reason to throw it away. In fact, there are plenty of reasons to not throw it away. Globally, we generate about 50 million tons of e-waste every year. That’s as much as throwing out 1,000 laptops every single second.
If you have an old laptop lying around, do your part to reduce e-waste. There are various ways to reuse an old laptop, from turning it into a digital photo frame or gaming server to something more advanced, like converting it into a NAS data storage system.
Here are just a few ideas for reusing an old laptop.
Editor’s note: These reuse projects assume that you have a certain level of comfort working with computer hardware and software.
Convert It Into a Network Attached Storage System
A network-attached storage (NAS) system is…