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!

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!)

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 ^_^

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!

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!

mrk · 12 Feb 2008 at 01:04

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

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 ^_^