From someone who used to work in recycling computers I would not delete the OS.
The reason is that it costs a fair amount to buy the os to reinstall on the old hardware. Particularly if like the place i worked there is no Mac experience thus no OS disks. This results in the hardware going to the tip and a wasted computer :( Same with people destroying the hard drives adds greatly to the costs of refurbing the computer. The place i worked refurbed them for poor/disadvantaged people and prices started at £60 for windows machines. I never saw a mac come in when i was there but one did come in after i left. Delete your data and use a overwrite free space utility. I dont know of a mac one since i have only used Windows ones. Martin N At 02:40 03/01/2012, you wrote:
I'm not savvy about any of this, so if I sound like an idiot, that is why. The two machines I have I bought used with the operating systems already installed and no disks and I have never had to clear a computer, hard drive, whatever in order to sell it. I read somewhere that if I sell a used computer I am supposed to remove the OS before I do.
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