Tetrium wrote:I can't afford a laptop though,
I can't afford a laptop too 😁 The only PC I bought was my Northwood. Back in 2002, it comes with NVidia Riva 32MB, 128MB DDR RAM, 20GB Maxtor HDD and 15" Samsung monitor for $700.
My Atom mini-ITX mobo comes from a heavily broken Small Form Factor PC (the harddrive and DDR was broken, the only thing I could harvest from it was only its motherboard and casing).
My 80286 also comes from the junk in one of my relatives' house which was nearly departed to the junkyard because it simply won't work. Replaced the AT PSU and it worked flawlessly until one day I accidentally put a big speaker beside it (and stupidly forgotten to move it away), and the whole harddrive gone.
My MMX PC (Pentium 200MMX) was came from one of my relatives which he gave me after they bought their new computer. I also got Jetway 531CF motherboard (discussed in other thread here) which I got for free along with its Pentium MMX processor, and a AT PC which is in the really bad condition (also discussed in other thread here) which I can only take the processor, from one of my friends.
My notebook is also free, because it was partially broken (bad memory chip and failed HDD), replaced those bad parts for $50 and it successfully works until today, which I wrote this post on it 😁
So does my cellphone (Nokia 9500). It's quite old but it has good keyboard. The old owner gave me simply because they think that this phone is slow compared with their new BlackBerry 8310 (and now 8310 are too slow compared with Nexus S 😁). Despite its age, this phone serves me realtime pushmail and always-on chat flawlessly.
Uhm, this post may be too off topic 😁