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  • April 11, 2008

    Taking PCs apart–and sending them back to school

    TeamworkPosted by Ina Fried

    BOGOTA, Colombia–In one corner of a massive warehouse, workers pick through bins of computers, keyboards, and mice, painstakingly cleaning each part.

    There’s a special room where peripherals such as mice go for washing and another where they go for drying. Once the hardware is reassembled, often with a few new parts added to the mix, the first set of testing takes place, to make sure all of the hardware functions as it should. Read all of TakingPC’s Apart…