Salvaging old electronics Help?

[cadena]

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.

 

[barry]

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.