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Personally I wouldn't bother, cutting off the power cord does help tell people it's waste though.
If I was paranoid about someone finding my AskJeeves search history, I'd open it and smash the HDD platter inside (or just go over it with a magnet).
They may be able to recover it and reinstall the OS by using the recovery mode.
Try and boot up the laptop and hold Command & R as you boot or reboot it and see what options it’ll give you.
Last time I did this I pulled the drive bashed a few nails through it and let sit in a bucket of heavily salted water. I am also partial to tin foil hats.
ooo, you use salty water, I just do plain water, I also do glue in the works
I erase as much as I can, then take out batteries, then smash it all, then add water or glue
you can probably download and burn the macOS disks if you have access to the media
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Destroy the motherboard 🤷♀️ whatever that looks like 🤷♀️
I don’t know which bit that is and I’m too scared to touch anything for fear of electrocution (even though it’s unplugged) 😂
Ok, the man said take a hammer to the hard drive 🤷♀️
Put the whole thing in the eWaste bin at the transfer station (tip).