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Salvaging old electronics Help?

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I have a broken HP G6 Laptop and two Xbox 360s that are just sitting around. I was wondering if anyone knows if theres anything worth salvaging in the consoles or laptop? Anything worth using? I often thought of the the temp. sensor in my slim version, i could use that right? or how about the RF module in either version that connects the controller to the xbox, could i detach it from the xbox and xbox controller somehow and use it?

I am a beginner at this electronics/building from scratch thing so please pardon me..

Thanks for the help.
 

Back in the "good old days", you could salvage stuff from electronics (I still have old vacuum tubes laying around that I expect to use 'any day now'). Nowadays I think you are probably better off just buying things new. Maybe you can find a usable power transformer or something like that, but everything else is just so application-specific that to reuse it will probably take more work than it's worth.

Just my opinion, though; I'm sure there are others who think I'm totally wrong.
 

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