Just picked up a few cheap laptops!

mrk · 10 Feb 2008 at 23:57

£60 each for various family members, local guy tests hw/sw for MS and had a backlog of various old laptops and bits

These are Dell C610 laptops with 20GB, 512MB and P3 1GHz, xp pro (oem license) and wifi - ideal for general work/net surfing around the house/workplace/on the move. Mine has 2 battereis so power should not be an issue on long hauls \m/

My first laptop...lmao!

scottyboy · 11 Feb 2008 at 00:46

I'll have one of ya if you have one going spare

mrk · 11 Feb 2008 at 02:13

Don't think one will be on resale anytime soon lol!

Edit*

So cool posting from bed (how sad!)

Hesky82 · 11 Feb 2008 at 07:09

I like the way you spend more on your audio than you do on your computers

Well saying that I bet that nad amp is half the price of your dell widescreen

Ogs · 11 Feb 2008 at 07:13

Aww damn, i could really do with a quick cheap lil bugger just to chill on bed with

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lmfy2k · 11 Feb 2008 at 08:37

Have used a C640 in the past, very nice laptops, sturdy and will last years, multibay batteries and dvdrom drives is also a nice feature.

MeatLoaf · 11 Feb 2008 at 09:38

These are nice laptops i used to have one.

They were very prone to having dodgy trackpads tho

mrk · 11 Feb 2008 at 09:57

Th guy I bought it off said if I ever have any issues then to just give him a shout as he has spare keyboards/trackpads/bit etc so it would seem I have my own parts store...LOL !

Hesky82, heh the AMP was £175 whilst the screen was £230

that's not including cables though, those were quite expensive ^_^

freelancesam · 11 Feb 2008 at 10:22

i use a c640.. the trackpad gets stuck sometimes and the screen flickers often which requires a bang on the side.. but all in all its a pretty sturdy laptop (i payed 200 for mine though

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mrk · 11 Feb 2008 at 10:32

By any chance does anyone know if these things can have faster processors installed or more than 512MB ram? atm there's 2 sticks of PC133 256MB and I'd like to grab 1GB and possibly a faster PIII if they existed!

DIABLO · 11 Feb 2008 at 11:17

You could almost certainly upgrade the ram to 1gb easily.

Hesky82 · 11 Feb 2008 at 16:47

You may find that old sdram sodimm pc100 or pc133 ram larger than 512mb will cost a small fortune!!

I think the PIII when to 1200Mhz max on laptops, really dont bother yourself.

mrk · 11 Feb 2008 at 23:56

Well I spoke to the guy today as I got a message from him saying he had gotten 2 more so I bought both! one appears to have a faulty hdd though, does not boot - confirmed by swapping the hd out for another ones and it boots fine so will replace HDD tomorrow!

He also gave me a few internal CD rom drives he found and a DVD rom as well as 3 high capacity batteries which I'm making ample use of:

He also gave me a 512MB stick of SODIMM PC133 and the laptops don't like it, it says "unsupported module" so looks like 512MB is the max the C310 will take I think!

Awesome!

DavidB · 12 Feb 2008 at 00:49

7 Hours battery

thats simply imense.

mrk · 12 Feb 2008 at 01:04

Reckon it would be worth getting a spare hdd too and installing UBUNTU on it at all ?

Monkeynut · 12 Feb 2008 at 01:05

Makes my D600 3 and a half hours look crap. :O

Hesky82 · 12 Feb 2008 at 01:22

DavidB said:
7 Hours battery thats simply imense.

If I let my Dell 6400 sit there doing nothing windows says I have 11 hours battery life, when you actually start using it the estimate soon drops

mrk · 12 Feb 2008 at 01:31

Hesky82 said:
If I let my Dell 6400 sit there doing nothing windows says I have 11 hours battery life, when you actually start using it the estimate soon drops

Well I've been defragging for the past 30 mins and installing various stuff and the reading shows:

(yes my disk is called wafflemaster ^_^)

Edit, I almost forgot! I've always wanted to do this but never had a lappy of my own to do it ^_^