iamdigitalman
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a friend of mine needs a computer for school, and after going through my newer macs, I decided to see what $50 could buy me. I found a nice Dell Latitude CPi A series on ebay. You would not believe the amount of used laptops there with no power adapters, or have serious issues.
It is a decent machine for internet and office, and some music. It has a Pentium II, 128mb of RAM, a 6gb hard drive, and integrated 10mbps LAN. no wireless, but it has 2 PC card slots, and I have a Linksys 802.11b card that has been looking for a home for the last 2 years. It also has all the legacy ports, a serial, and parallel, along with a single USB 1.1 port, which can be used with the MP3 player she has.
It will be enough for windows XP and office XP, though I might install windows 2000 and office 2000.
So, for $46 shipped, I get a decent machine with only one broken key (the V, but my iBook has a broken delete key and I make out alright), and a thin red virtical line on the screen, which I think I can make go away. I also think the battery holds a charge, but that is not important.
Plus, once she is done with it, I can use it as an ideal carputer. I was going to get a fujitsu stylistic, but this just might do.
-digital
It is a decent machine for internet and office, and some music. It has a Pentium II, 128mb of RAM, a 6gb hard drive, and integrated 10mbps LAN. no wireless, but it has 2 PC card slots, and I have a Linksys 802.11b card that has been looking for a home for the last 2 years. It also has all the legacy ports, a serial, and parallel, along with a single USB 1.1 port, which can be used with the MP3 player she has.
It will be enough for windows XP and office XP, though I might install windows 2000 and office 2000.
So, for $46 shipped, I get a decent machine with only one broken key (the V, but my iBook has a broken delete key and I make out alright), and a thin red virtical line on the screen, which I think I can make go away. I also think the battery holds a charge, but that is not important.
Plus, once she is done with it, I can use it as an ideal carputer. I was going to get a fujitsu stylistic, but this just might do.
-digital