The author makes a big point about NEW hardware being dumped, but fails to deliver. This looks like numerous companies bought HP hardware over the past 10 years, and have been tossing it here as they upgrade.
The HP drives look older to me - one is a 146GB 10K Fibre-channel drive that Amazon doesn't sell anymore. One of the labels shows "Tested Jul '05". The other is a 72GB 15k Wide Ultra320 SCSI.
The monitor is a 14.1" WXGA, which looks to max out at 1366x768. The label shows "Date of receipt: 10-May-10"
The crop of the 3rd barcode is very blurry, I couldn't figure out what was in it. Apparently they're supposed to be Samsung-branded, but the box isn't branded at all. (other than mentioning Korean assembly)
The next 2 images are really trying hard - one is the AMD-labelled PCB for an AMD/ATI Radeon, and the other is its ATI-branded heatsink. The author tries to grow his list of offending brands by including both of this company's brands. You can find one for sale on Ebay. (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-Radeon-Graphics-Card-Model-B403-...)
Apparently Panasonic Aviation is part of Panasonic. (http://www.mascorp.com/) Still, the pink label in the photo notes the manufacture date as "28 Feb 06".
The HP drives are certainly not manufactured by HP, only HP branded.
Partnumber on label on 3rd photo is clearly Samsung's (S3C...) and seems to be some semi-custom CPU for TVs so it's entirely possible to be discarded by Samsung's customer instead of Samsung. Also parts that are discarded because they don't pass QC testing are usually not packaged (as packaging invalid parts is large mostly avoidable cost) or at least visibly and irreparably destroyed (like drilled through) to make them unsellable and unusable for counterfeiters, not thrown away with complete original packaging.
The AMD board was certainly discarded during manufacturing, I would quess that by automated optical check after reflow (through hole components are not assembled, there seems to be missing component marked by the arrow label). Due to various process limitations, discarding such boards tends to be cheaper (and maybe even more green and eco-friendly) than trying to fix them.
The author makes a big point about NEW hardware being dumped, but fails to deliver. This looks like numerous companies bought HP hardware over the past 10 years, and have been tossing it here as they upgrade.
The HP drives look older to me - one is a 146GB 10K Fibre-channel drive that Amazon doesn't sell anymore. One of the labels shows "Tested Jul '05". The other is a 72GB 15k Wide Ultra320 SCSI.
The monitor is a 14.1" WXGA, which looks to max out at 1366x768. The label shows "Date of receipt: 10-May-10"
The crop of the 3rd barcode is very blurry, I couldn't figure out what was in it. Apparently they're supposed to be Samsung-branded, but the box isn't branded at all. (other than mentioning Korean assembly)
The next 2 images are really trying hard - one is the AMD-labelled PCB for an AMD/ATI Radeon, and the other is its ATI-branded heatsink. The author tries to grow his list of offending brands by including both of this company's brands. You can find one for sale on Ebay. (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-Radeon-Graphics-Card-Model-B403-...)
Apparently Panasonic Aviation is part of Panasonic. (http://www.mascorp.com/) Still, the pink label in the photo notes the manufacture date as "28 Feb 06".