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I have 2 x 2GB in an older Dell laptop that I want to try. If that doesn't work the memory kits on eBay are pretty cheap. I have ordered a power supply for it that  should be here tomorrow. Can't wait to get it so I can do a proper install of Mac OS 10.6. Will upgrade to 10.7 after that. There...

The blue tape is there to keep a screw that I found when I removed the battery until I figure out where it came from. The laptop on the bottom is a ThinkPad T500 for comparison.

I found a MacBook on Craig's list for $20. Picked it up this morning and it looks like a laptop that cost $20.  :smiley: It's a late 2006 Model with the original 1gb memory and 80GB hard drive with 10.6.8 installed. I'll need to get a power supply for it since it didn't come with one. The...

Considering I don't normally use iOS devices it's an easy mistake to make. :) I thought she had that phone for a long time - apparently not as long as I thought. The main reason I wanted to keep the phone was to become more familiar with a more recent version of iOS.  That way I can be at...

iOS 9 is occasionally sluggish on the phone and is quite different than 4.2.1 on my old iPod touch. 9.3.4 is as high as it Will go.

After my mother-in-law dealt with a flaky iPhone 4 for way too long we finally upgraded her to an iPhone 8 Plus and I got to keep her old phone. No cracks or scratches and is running iOS 9.3.5 Way too tiny for my big fingers. :) I attempted to use it for iTunes but apparently things have...

May have to try this - I had a DVD Combo drive in my iBook G4 1.33ghz 12" and managed to find a SuperDrive from an iBook G4 14".  After the swap it wouldn't mount any discs either. I have no interest at the moment to disassemble it yet again to swap it back right now...

That could probably be said for any computer manufacturer, not just Acer.  I can recall several Dell, HP and Gateway laptops in the past that I have worked on that had issues with the hinges and others that were prone to motherboard failures.  No laptop flambes on this end yet. Now as far as...

The Chromebook has been retired.  It has been too unstable to run reliably for any length of time. The hard drive went to a machine that needed one. I did find a distribution of Chromium OS called CloudReady that works very well on an old Gateway Pentium dual-core laptop with 2GB RAM.  No...

I may have to try AOSP. Even the beta version of Chrome OS is unstable on this little beastie. At this point I'm not too sure what else I can do to get it to work. Target practice is mighty tempting. :)

After having issues with the screen not waking from sleep with 3GB of memory, I removed the 1GB memory stick. It made things worse.  After many random reboots and crashes I have switched it to the beta channel.  So far go good (crossing my fingers)!

The older ones were more expandable than the newer ones.  From the reviews I have read on this one it appeared to be a converted Windows model of sorts.  While it makes it expandable (there is a large panel on the bottom with access to 2 dimm slots and the hard drive) there are some trade-offs...

I managed to bump it up to 3GB with a spare stick of memory. They still occur but not as frequently.

How many "Aw, Snap"s did you get?  They have been fairly frequent on this one.  Updating it again has helped to a degree but they still appear from time to time.

New Chromebooks around here are at least $150.  I wasn't willing to spend that much to try out Chrome OS, but for $25? Yes, please!  I figured if I couldn't get it to work it could be stripped for parts. I took a quick look for a vintage Mac emulator.  I found a java-based one but not much...

A few days ago I was doing a random search on Craigslist for computers that cost $30 or less.  One of the results was an Acer Chromebook that had a damaged Chrome OS install for $25. I picked it up today and once I was home downloaded the restore image on another computer, wrote the image to a...

I was going to suggest uninstalling all of the extra crapplications would help speed the Acer up to some degree but someone beat me to it. :) Can't help with the trackpad though...

Skinny guy with white hair and a beard near the appliance booth?  Yes, that's Charile. :)  He may still get repairs on occasion since he gave his phone number to long-time customers but I don't expect any until I see them. Since I started at my current employer in 2012 the extra work was nice...

The property the flea market was on and the car dealership beside it was bought to be torn down and a food bank will take its place. The dealer I helped out was there for 27 years.  His doctor has told him to stop working because of his knees so the flea market closing was rather convenient.

Today was the last day the Raleigh Flea Market Mall was open for business.  I've been helping one of the the vendors there for many years and picked up a few things from him to prevent him from having to take him home. Among the goodies: IBM x3500 Server with a single Xeon processor, 1GB of...