How should I part this laptop out...selling

[bradleyheathhays]

I've got a Lenovo E 535 ThinkPad laptop I hardly ever used and kept around as a backup. Recently I went to boot it up and after charging nothing happened. I took it to a professional computer repair guy and he said it's toast; said something about a known problem with the motherboard. He suggested I just part it out or sell it outright.

So I'm wondering...what's the best way to sell this carcass of a computer to get the most out of it? Should I take the memory, hard drive or anything else out and sell them separately, or should I just let the whole thing go as one item?

Also, could anyone translate this line found on a sticker on the back that denotes the computer's stats...

Lenovo E535 A10 - 4600m 2.3/6/750/DR/15.6/W7P-W8

Only thing I get out of that is a 15.6" monitor.

Also, I'm not sure how to describe this memory if I were to sell it. Can anyone translate this sticker and let me know how I should advertise this memory? Thanks.

 

[johnb35]

It has a 4600m 2.3 ghz dual core 4 thread cpu
6gb of ram
750gb hard drive
dvdrw drive
15.6 inch screen
Windows 7 pro or windows 8


That machine is almost 10 years old, you won't get much if anything for it anyway.

 

[Darren]

Don't waste your time, recycle it. You could MAYBE get like 20-30 bucks for the RAM.

That said if it doesn't even boot, I wouldn't in good faith sell any of the parts without knowing the problem. To me it sounds like the tech just didn't want to mess with it, and I don't really blame him.

 

[beers]

You could MAYBE get like 20-30 bucks for the RAM.

I think you can start rolling 16G kits around that cost.

You might also be able to flip the CPU for $30 or so, but there's honestly nothing else of value on that system.