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I don't think there's much I could do in providing food & shelter, but I do have a rather ok-ish MacBook collecting Dust (Model 2007). Would that help?

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I'm in desperate need of a laptop to do my development on. I do algorithms in C and C++ for the next International Olympiad in Informatics and my laptop (an el-cheapo ~220EUR I bought 4 years before) is completely broken down, The keys merely work, the screen is touchpad doesn't really work as well. Linux won't work on this thing so I have to use Windows XP and putty to do my job and this sucks.

I need to speed up the development process and get up an running with a machine that will always work. I'm not asking directly for your machine, it's just that I'd like to have it, and by that I mean that it would certainly help me but I'm pretty sure people out there need it more deeply.

What I do is here: https://github.com/karantias/training

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I've made a new post about this. Please see here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3008136

fellow poor rails programmer from poland here. i can take it if its a burden :]

If op has no use for it. I've been wanting to give this macbook away to someone who's in dire need (e.g. broken, stolen, etc.) and is unable to buy a new one due to not having any money.

If that's you, or anyone for that matter, I'll be happy to send it your way.

You can send it his way, I`m in no need of a new computer. I think whoever accepts my offer will have some equipment to work on.

to be true a computer would be very nice, my last macbook broke down completely 1 year ago, and ive got only this very old amd pc right now. I'm not an expert of ruby on rails in any way, im still learning to become a developer. If you need any more details please send me an email to xelnyq[at]gmail. thanks

Hi there! Can you please give it to me? I want to start developing iOS stuff but don't have money. ( btw, I'm 15.)

Just to check, are you aware that you need to pay $99/year to actually put stuff that you've made onto an iDevice?

It's a lot cheaper than a Macbook, so I'm not saying you're not worthy or anything. It would just be a shame if you get a mac and can't use it for what you intended.

Yes. I'm already a developer. I got it when I made an app for a local company on their machines.

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