Ok, so I figured I'd announce this here, since it's the Linux Laptop place I visit the most. My mom, the computer collecting nutjob that she is lol, has about 8 laptops that she's bought over the years that she wants me to sell on eBay for her. *disclosure: I get 40% of the proceeds*. I've decided that if I am going to do it, I'm going to wipe Windoze off of the drives of each and every one, and preload linux on them (probably Ubuntu for it's hardware detection, or straight Debian for a lighter footprint on the older ones). So if anyone is interested in any of the below, shoot me an email at ollysk2 ((((((AT)))))) gmail ((((((((DOT))))))) com
I'm not sure of exact specs, and/or any issues (though she says all of them work, there may be problems here and there), but this is what it looks like I'll have for sale:
Toshiba MMX (not sure of model or proc speed, but has 128mb of ram), I will have two of these. My mom says that they have great, bright screens, and both work well.
Three Dell Latitude CP's: These all have 5gb HDD's (I think), 233mhz Proc and 64mb of ram. I've got a mix of accessories for them (battteries, swappable floppy/cd-rom drives/ etc), and all work well, though one has a dimming screen I think.
Two Dell Latitude LS's: badass little sub-notebooks, 256mb of ram, not sure of the HDD capcity.
Dell Latitude L400, also a cool little sub-notebook, weighs nothing, I think it's a 733mhz, though I'll have to verify that.. works perfectly, 256mb ram.
I'm also going to sell my personal laptop, a Dell Inspiron 2200, Celeron 1.3ghz, 756mb RAM, 30gb HDD, currently running Ubuntu Edgy, though it has run any number of linux distros since I owned it. The only issue it has is that the headphone jack doesn't work.
Anyway, if anyone is interested, shoot me an offer. I'll have these up on eBay in the next couple of weeks, but y'all can have first dibs... I'll even act as your personal email linux support tech on these
.... but for someone who wants a laptop to play with linux on, but doesn't want to go full on linux on your main machine, these work well. Also, the LS's and the L400 are great little travel laptops, as they are smaller then hell.
Long live *nix!!!
-olly
I'm not sure of exact specs, and/or any issues (though she says all of them work, there may be problems here and there), but this is what it looks like I'll have for sale:
Toshiba MMX (not sure of model or proc speed, but has 128mb of ram), I will have two of these. My mom says that they have great, bright screens, and both work well.
Three Dell Latitude CP's: These all have 5gb HDD's (I think), 233mhz Proc and 64mb of ram. I've got a mix of accessories for them (battteries, swappable floppy/cd-rom drives/ etc), and all work well, though one has a dimming screen I think.
Two Dell Latitude LS's: badass little sub-notebooks, 256mb of ram, not sure of the HDD capcity.
Dell Latitude L400, also a cool little sub-notebook, weighs nothing, I think it's a 733mhz, though I'll have to verify that.. works perfectly, 256mb ram.
I'm also going to sell my personal laptop, a Dell Inspiron 2200, Celeron 1.3ghz, 756mb RAM, 30gb HDD, currently running Ubuntu Edgy, though it has run any number of linux distros since I owned it. The only issue it has is that the headphone jack doesn't work.
Anyway, if anyone is interested, shoot me an offer. I'll have these up on eBay in the next couple of weeks, but y'all can have first dibs... I'll even act as your personal email linux support tech on these
.... but for someone who wants a laptop to play with linux on, but doesn't want to go full on linux on your main machine, these work well. Also, the LS's and the L400 are great little travel laptops, as they are smaller then hell.Long live *nix!!!
-olly
