Garage sale HAUL!

[CompuNurd]

Pretty good haul. I say it's a haul because I had to haul all this around while I went to more sales! Many people just don't put out computers until you ask. Ask and you come back with a LOT of goodies! Just a few hours Friday and Saturday and I have enough to startup a small computer shop! I paid less than $300 for everything, and each computer is worth anywhere from $30 for the cheapest, $50 for a decent one, and two pretty good ones for $150-200!

Pardon the mess, it's obvious I get too much stuff than I know what to do with! Paid about $10 each when you divide it all up.



12 laptops

2 generic android tablets

2 towers (parts)

An xbox and a PS3 (16 total!)

And 3 eMacs with keyboards. Two work, one kernel panics. I will sell one good one and a kernel panic one soon as I want to keep one.

Wait, did I say 3 eMacs? $10 each, they look great!

 

[CC_333]

Nice haul!

If you decide to sell any of it (I suspect you'd need to to get yopur space back!), I'd be interested in one of those tablets if they run at least Android 2.1 and have Bluetooth capabilities (or an easy means of adding it, such as a USB port).

Anyway, what's the model breakdown? By the pic, it looks like you have a mixture of HP, Dell and Toshiba laptops, which look relatively modern (made in the 21st century, anyway).

c

 

[CompuNurd]

Haven't looked at every model yet. Mostly it's HP Pavilion, Dell Latitude, Toshiba Satellite stuff. Core 2, Pentium Dual Cores, one i3, and maybe some other stuff. Let me know what you're looking for and I will be more than happy to sell. Some are complete, others aren't. All will be sold with a wiped drive. I forgot to mention some of them came from a computer repair shop I go to a lot to buy stuff. I didn't have time to find all the adapters (he keeps them in a big lot for scrap or later repair and there are all kinds of things mixed with it) but I should have the right type to be able to test the computers.

As for a tablet, I don't have the chargers for them. I might buy one just to test the lot and wipe the drives. I'll get prices out on working ones. They're odd though, Ethernet and full size USB ports!

 

[CC_333]

Well, full USB ports means I can add Bluetooth rather easily if need be.

Let me know how it goes with those.

Can I have some close-ups of the tablets, if it's not too inconvenient?

c

 

[CompuNurd]

I can get pictures later tonight, as well as the models.

 

[SuperToaster]

yeah I have that same HP Pavillion in the back its a nice machine.

 

[Garrett]

eMacs aren't that rare. But nonetheless nice find!

 

[CompuNurd]

eMacs aren't that rare. But nonetheless nice find!

Plus I didn't have to pay shipping!

 

[Garrett]

Plus I didn't have to pay shipping!

(Thumbs Up!)

 

[Elfen]

Those eMacs are G4s. If you pull on the DVD/CD ROM Door to open it downward there should be a label to tell you what it supposed to have.

And if you got the 10.4 or 10.5 CD/DVD, you can run install and then Disk Utility, it should fix it. These eMacs were built mostly for schools but the public bought them too.

 

[CompuNurd]

Elfen: thanks! I didn't see anything on the back so I couldn't figure out what they were. The kernel panic one had a new OS installed by me, I will try to see what is wrong before I sell.

CC: I just placed an order for a charger. Once that gets here I will let you know if they work alright. I looked them up, they are called iRulu. Model AL101

 

[CC_333]

Huh, they look strikingly similar to iPads!

Just looking at the screen, though, I can tell it's probably not quite as good as an iPad's.

And, that farther back one even seems to have it's overwrap still.

c

 

[Elfen]

Huh, they look strikingly similar to iPads!

Just looking at the screen, though, I can tell it's probably not quite as good as an iPad's.

And, that farther back one even seems to have it's overwrap still.

c

I remember ABC News Nightline segment last year of a Chinese company cloning iPad case parts for their Android Tablets. It is more than one company doing this as one company makes the parts and the others buy them for their tablets. And in China, this is perfectly legal.

 

[CC_333]

Well, then, I guess this is an instance of that.

I don't mind that it's a "clone", but I've found that the real thing (an iPad, in this case) is almost invariably better (being that it's an Android tablet though, it's OK; people's expectations of such things aren't as high it seems.)

Nonetheless, I'm intrigued, and it would be a novel thing to play with (and, being that I've never used Android, it would be an interesting learning experience; Couldn't be much different than iOS, though).

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