Wht do you mean by: old lamps for new? I'm not a perfect English speaker, but this means that if I send a new "lamp" you'll give me an old "lamp". Am I right? I think that the corect writing is: A "new lamp for the old one". If you want to spoof Alladin, then say it right :)
Bye...

$238.35 for a machine that can be built for £900 today, they must be joking?

I have a few old <1Ghz AMD systems laying around that still work, but aren't really useful for anything other than as a linux print server or firewall. Since I already have those covered, I popped in their specs in the AlienExchange to see what kind of trade in estimate I could get.

Nadda. Zip. Zilch. Nothing.

So trading in those old "paper wieghts", as Alienware's spin puts it, won't get you anything. Actually you'll end up having to pay for the recycling cost.

I put in my Linux laptop (an old Dell knock-off PIII-866Mhz system with a Wi-fi PCMCIA card) and the estimate they gave me was $21.32. If i took off the Wi-fi card and the OS (Ubuntu Linux for the time being) the estimate dropped to $13.94.

I'll pass on the exchange and just stick the old beige boxes in a closet for now. Never know when I'll need a firewall or print server... ;)

Cheers,
John