What to do with older PCs/Mac/Laptop?

[Kinesis]

Hey folks,

Been a long time since I was stumping around the forums. Nice to be back.

What I have is 3 older products (PC, Mac, Laptop) and I am trying to figure out what I should do with them and wondered if anyone has any suggestions.

1. First is a fully built. working Xeon X3220 with 4GB of Ram/128 GB SSD - Currently running Windows 10
   
2. Mac Mini - i5 (Dual Core) - late 2012 release, with 8 GB of Ram/500 GB HDD - Currently running Mac OSX High Sierra
3. Laptop - Dell 15 inch, Core i5 with 8 GB of Ram/500 GB HDD.

Currently, I already have a Linux machine for development which is also running VMs for Plex Server, Pen Testing Virtual Lab and a Web Server, and I have no complaints. I also have a old, but still working great i7 2600K gaming machine.

I guess I could sell them, but thought I would see if anyone had any suggestions of other uses.before I go that route.

Any thoughts?

 

[ao_ika_red]

Clean its heatsink and change the thermal paste. And if you want to donate their compute power, you may visit Distributed Computing sub forum.

 

[whm1974]

Find people who need a computer but can't afford one.

 

[sdifox]

Pfsense on the xeon or the 2600K?
Donate them?

 

[Mac29]

NAS?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Give them to children.

 

[whm1974]

Give them to children.

And install Linux on them so the children will learn to be free.

 

[DaveSimmons]

And install Linux on them so the children will learn to be free.

Better that than XP or a pirated 10 . The Mint flavor of Ubuntu has a Windows-ish UI and isn't hostile to using evil proprietary libraries to make things "just work" as soon as you install it.