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Confederate · 01-13-2006, 08:51 PM

The company I work for routinely cleans out it's old computer hardware every few years, and 2005 was the year they did it.
There were three laptops that were deemed unfit for work for various reasons, and since the Network guys can just budget in new laptops in favor of fixing the old ones they gave them away.
One laptop had a broken monitor, 2 of them had bad hard drives, 1 had a bad battery, one wouldn't boot up, etc.
I asked nicely to have all three laptops, and took them all home and before the end of the evening I had cannibalized myself a working laptop, some parts came from the laptops, and some I had laying around.

Here are the specs off the top of my head.
Dell Latitude CPi-A
PII-400 MHz
256 Mb Ram
~10 gig 4200 RPM HD
~2.5 Mb Integrated Video Card
Win2k Pro
24x CDROM
and 2 Batteries.
Linksys Wireless-G PC Card
and a Linksys Wireless-G access point.

I plan on using this to help with my studies in college, browse the internet, listen to music, and upload my digital camera photos to when my card gets full and I am away from home, and sometimes as a mobile charger for my iPod.

Since the video card is so small videos are next to impossible to watch, except for small-low-quality ones.

So far it has been working great.
Few questions though. Would a laptop this old benefit from a higher RPM larger capactiy HD?
And is there any way to improve the movie playing abilities of the Laptop?

01-13-2006, 08:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Confederate Death Leprechaun Location: College Station, TX	Cannibalized myself a laptop The company I work for routinely cleans out it's old computer hardware every few years, and 2005 was the year they did it. There were three laptops that were deemed unfit for work for various reasons, and since the Network guys can just budget in new laptops in favor of fixing the old ones they gave them away. One laptop had a broken monitor, 2 of them had bad hard drives, 1 had a bad battery, one wouldn't boot up, etc. I asked nicely to have all three laptops, and took them all home and before the end of the evening I had cannibalized myself a working laptop, some parts came from the laptops, and some I had laying around. Here are the specs off the top of my head. Dell Latitude CPi-A PII-400 MHz 256 Mb Ram ~10 gig 4200 RPM HD ~2.5 Mb Integrated Video Card Win2k Pro 24x CDROM and 2 Batteries. Linksys Wireless-G PC Card and a Linksys Wireless-G access point. I plan on using this to help with my studies in college, browse the internet, listen to music, and upload my digital camera photos to when my card gets full and I am away from home, and sometimes as a mobile charger for my iPod. Since the video card is so small videos are next to impossible to watch, except for small-low-quality ones. So far it has been working great. Few questions though. Would a laptop this old benefit from a higher RPM larger capactiy HD? And is there any way to improve the movie playing abilities of the Laptop?