So, there's a system that does not exist at work. Doesn't show up in inventory, doesn't show up w/ the tag it's assigned to.
No battery, no AC adapter, no accessories (TV tuner & remote).
My workplace owes me some backpay and a bonus, I made an offhand remark to my boss that he should just give me that system and I'd call it even.
Since they have already written it off due to the lack of accessories, it sounds like they might be doing it.
If so, it's a DV9000 series. Forget the actual model number, but I remember the specs.
Core 2 Duo T5450
2gb PC5300 RAM
200gb hdd (120 + 80)
17" WXGA+ brightview LCD
256mb 8600M GS
4965AGN WiFi
Fingerprint reader
DVDDL
HDMI out
Basically, all I have to pay is for a battery & AC adapter, which should run me sub-$100 on ebay (unless anyone would care to trade a new 65W for a 90W AC adapter).
But, I'm curious: what kind of battery life am I looking at with this? Anything noteworthy about the DV9000 systems? I'll probably stick with 32 bit Vista Home Premium. I'm going to keep my Thinkpad as my "workstation" system, and use this for multimedia & gaming.
How Linux/OSX86 friendly are these machines? If it has 2 internal drives, I may very well look at running seperate OS's on them and simply boot to the 80gb whenever I want to run Ubuntu.
No battery, no AC adapter, no accessories (TV tuner & remote).
My workplace owes me some backpay and a bonus, I made an offhand remark to my boss that he should just give me that system and I'd call it even.
Since they have already written it off due to the lack of accessories, it sounds like they might be doing it.
If so, it's a DV9000 series. Forget the actual model number, but I remember the specs.
Core 2 Duo T5450
2gb PC5300 RAM
200gb hdd (120 + 80)
17" WXGA+ brightview LCD
256mb 8600M GS
4965AGN WiFi
Fingerprint reader
DVDDL
HDMI out
Basically, all I have to pay is for a battery & AC adapter, which should run me sub-$100 on ebay (unless anyone would care to trade a new 65W for a 90W AC adapter).
But, I'm curious: what kind of battery life am I looking at with this? Anything noteworthy about the DV9000 systems? I'll probably stick with 32 bit Vista Home Premium. I'm going to keep my Thinkpad as my "workstation" system, and use this for multimedia & gaming.
How Linux/OSX86 friendly are these machines? If it has 2 internal drives, I may very well look at running seperate OS's on them and simply boot to the 80gb whenever I want to run Ubuntu.
