Foo - How to destroy a laptop?

We've seen a gun used.

Are there any other ways?

Woodchipper comes to mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOO1Z4u2Aq4

Let a teenager use it.

Bring it to a place that will recycle it properly.

Uninstall AdBlock and rely on either Norton or McAfee to handle security...

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s65/StupidlyBrave/Inspiron9300/100_3653.jpg

http://www.allbestwallpapers.com/wallpaper/computer/image/windows_vista.jpg

(NSFW - language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYewW2tt2RM

Just give it to my friend and tell him to use it normally.

http://www.allbestwallpapers.com/wallpaper/computer/image/windows_vista.jpg:notamused:

invite this guy over when your opening the laptop box.. http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6644439/brand-new-iphone-4s-prank

My brother in law has a large accounting firm, when they get rid of
a lap top or any computer for that matter they take them to the
rail road shop just up the street and they put them in a press used
to change the wheels on the axles of the train cars. They end up
about an 1/8" thick. Then they are shredded and recycled.

The shop doesn't charge for the service, they are clients of
the firm and the employees have a good time smashing the
computers..

One of the accounting firm employees stays and watches
the destruction to be sure they are useless at the end.

Fire cleanses all.

use the flash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0-qPkpeWWg

How seriously do you want to destroy it?

There protocols you have to use when working on government contracts that does a pretty good job. I worked on a communications project with a San Diego firm many years ago. None of the computers had USB ports or floppy drives and everyone was inspected for removable media on their way in and out.

At the end of the project, all the computers were disassembled and smashed with hammers. The disk-drives has to be disassembled and each platter smashed with a hammer. Then all the pieces were put into this machine that looked like a cross between a microwave and dishwasher. Pushed the button and it phoned home. In a couple hours, a guy showed up from the NSA and opened up the machine and all the computer parts had turned to powder. He swept this powder into a industrial-strength zip-lock bag and went away.

Our hard drives go out for shredding or erasure, depending on whether they're in a machine or not when we give them to the university property management guys. Before that, we had a hammer and we'd go out to the sidewalk to destroy the drives. VERY therapeutic. I've also been known to throw dead drives around a little just to make sure they're broken.

We have some faculty that are VERY efficient at destroying hardware. Some end up with new laptops every other year. The previous Vice Provost himself got a new iPhone every 6 months because he always managed to do SOMETHING to it.

well, you could give a laptop at total immersion bath, smash it with a sledgehammer, drill it through with a post-hole digger.... or, you could take it to the South of France and improperly plug it in to charge without the correct adapter. There's dull destruction, and then there's incidental-to-vacation destruction!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODEziRp6m-8

Try using it as a frisbee.






From a car.

Handcuff it in the shower and dismember it with a chainsaw like an effing cockaroach.
http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/vv310/skijor/CreosotePacino/pacino-scarface-mr-creosote.jpg
oops, try again (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/ScarfacePacino.jpg/220px-ScarfacePacino.jpg)

When in doubt...C4.

When in doubt...C4.

thermite is easier to make.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XchwE9zVdnw

No one has suggested a streamroller or such. For the office laptop on your last day of work what would be wrong with duct taping it to the rail just before the 5:45 leaves the station.? If it wasn't your last day of work the powers to be would likely make it so.

After being fired, one co-worker typed in del c:\*.* to his DOS computer and it quietly ate itself while he packed up his stuff.

why destroy it? Just remove the drive and keep or destroy it and give the laptop to someone who can use it. I picked up two old ones for my kids last week.

After being fired, one co-worker typed in del c:\*.* to his DOS computer and it quietly ate itself while he packed up his stuff.
We have people at work who try stuff like that...

Doesn't bother us. All we do when they leave is just re-image it. Don't bother worrying about what is on the computer. Their Windows profile gets deleted as well.

It isn't like IT departments snoop through other people's data or even care to.

We have people at work who try stuff like that...

Doesn't bother us. All we do when they leave is just re-image it. Don't bother worrying about what is on the computer. Their Windows profile gets deleted as well.

It isn't like IT departments snoop through other people's data or even care to.

Guy was fired at a place I worked with and deleted all his e-mail. That made management suspicious so they had me restore his mailbox from backup so they could see what he felt needed to be deleted.

why destroy it? Just remove the drive and keep or destroy it and give the laptop to someone who can use it. I picked up two old ones for my kids last week.

The question here is not why but how. :crash:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pizFsY0yjss

I'm just sayin, why waste it?

Unless its a MAC, then beat thew smug out of it.

I'm just sayin, why waste it?

This is Foo, foo. Loosen up. Strictly an exercise in fantasy.

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/f/fail.jpg

Anyone mention a drill press and a 3/4" bit?

On a relatednote...


Those hard drive magnets make excellent refrigerator magnets.

thermite is easier to make.

typical canuckistani....always trying to take the easy way out.

Dunk it in chum and then chunk it overboard.

Hand it over to me, I'm destructively incompatible with laptops.

Spill a Starbucks Venti something-or-other drink on the keyboard. That's what my daughter's friend did to her macbook. :notamused: And no, I didn't get my daughter a new computer after that.

Dunk it in chum and then chunk it overboard.

+1

Spill a Starbucks Venti something-or-other drink on the keyboard. That's what my daughter's friend did to her macbook. :notamused: And no, I didn't get my daughter a new computer after that.

My daughter spilled soda in hers. It continued to work for a while, although keys would stick. Eventually the keyboard and trackpad were completely non-functional. She still uses it with an external keyboard and mouse.

typical canuckistani....always trying to take the easy way out.

Up here in The Great White North, we use the heat from the thermite to heat the igloo. :)