Computer Equipment and
Software Donations
What will we accept?

PCs of any brand (sorry Mac fans), CPUs of Pentium 4 or better quality, Keyboards and mice, monitors and printers. For more info on specific components, please return to www.widernet.org/donations.
What comprises a whole system?
 
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Item What we will accept
Monitor Monitors need to be 110/220 volt compatible. It will say this on the back of the monitor.
CPU Pentium 4 or better.
Keyboards and Mice We will accept all AT, PS/2 and USB keyboards and mice. We cannot accept other forms of mice or keyboards.

 
Pricing for systems: How much is your donation worth?
This is hard to determine. Your computer might be stacked with goodies or a Plain Jane kind of system. According to IRS rules, however, we cannot decide the actual value of your system. You supply us a value and we report that amount to the UI Foundation. To help you come up with a value, here's a chart of average prices for popular components. Much of these are estimates from Goodwill, Inc. If you want to be as accurate as possible, we suggest you research similar systems or components on eBay prior to making your donation.
  Range Average  
Whole Pentium 4 or better system
(depending on what extra "goodies" you've added"		 $100 - $400    
Laptop $100 - $200    
Monitor $5 - $75    
Flat Screen Monitor   $50  
Standard Monitor   $20  
Printer $5 - $75    
Inkjet Printer   $35  
Laser Printer   $60  
100 GB Hard Drive   $25  
CD-ROM   $50  
Keyboard   $10  
Mouse   $10  
Scanner $20 - $100    
Software (depending on what it is) $20 - $50    
Speakers $10 - $35    
Zip Drive $10 - $60    
 

 

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