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First post, by ahendricks18

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Hey all! As many of you know, I often go to the local transfer station (recycling plant) to take garbage and bottles, as well as rummaging through the electronics. Today I found some old 72 pin Ram in an old half taken apart Dell socket 5 PC. I used it in another one of my PC's, a packard bell Multimedia M400 Pentium MMX-166. Anyway, I found this old thick laptop, not too old, just old enough for me to take a peek, and its in pretty good shape! I brought it home with the ram and fired it up with a compatible power cord and it works fine and boots to windows XP. Since I dont have an XP CD I'll just keep the old OS on there and delete some files and what not. I was going to upload a CPU-Z report but it either says extension is not allowed or something that it was rejected. Anyway, specs are: Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 ghz, 1.25 gb ram, Intel "extreme" graphics, etc. The DVD drive was not letting me access a blank CD-R earlier but oh well. Also trying to upload a pic but still says extension not allowed.

Main: AMD FX 6300 six core 3.5ghz (OC 4ghz)
16gb DDR3, Nvidia Geforce GT740 4gb Gfx card, running Win7 Ultimate x64
Linux: AMD Athlon 64 4000+, 1.5GB DDR, Nvidia Quadro FX1700 running Debian Jessie 8.4.0

Reply 1 of 2, by nforce4max

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I like those old school DTR style laptops as they had to do a pretty decent job to make them last or they failed pretty early. Sadly those faded out of style in 2008 for ultra thins and tablets 🙁

The last good DTR DELL was the XPS M1730.

On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.

Reply 2 of 2, by zstandig

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I know right? The drive to make everything razor thin really does more harm than good. If we were willing to have slightly thicker lappys think of all the extra battery life we could have.