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    Posted: 24 July 2006 at 4:23pm
Give me a laptop, a craptop, the oldest, cheapest laptop you have. You know you want to...
I want to put Damn small linux on it and use it for writing. Barring that, reccomend a super-cheap laptop.

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I have 4....but no
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Ebay is your friend.  Thousands of off-lease laptops all the time.

It won't be free, but you can get pretty close.
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I have a couple gateway 2000s. That battery is shot in both of them, and I had planned to up them alittle.

I think they might be in my storage shed. They can barely run on windows 95.
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3 of mine are running os x, one is running os 9, barely
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Originally posted by Monk Monk wrote:

I have a couple gateway 2000s. That battery is shot in both of them, and I had planned to up them alittle.I think they might be in my storage shed. They can barely run on windows 95.
I wonder if one can still find batteries for those?
Anyway, I wasn't really exepcting anyone to donate one. More looking for advice for a cheap one that'll take a little abuse.
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craigslist. You'll learn to love it
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Meh, my town is too small for craigslist.
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Find the next largest and see what you can find and arrange a mail thing.
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I was going to offer you my brand new macbook, but I see you want a crappy laptop. Sorry I can't help.

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I have an old Dell Latitude P2 with a busted screen. I might use it for parts though.

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Originally posted by Cedric Cedric wrote:

I was going to offer you my brand new macbook, but I see you want a crappy laptop. Sorry I can't help.
Yeah, seriously, what were you thinking?
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I'd say save up and go for a macbook. You'll you it so much.

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Originally posted by BARREL BREAK BARREL BREAK wrote:

Originally posted by Monk Monk wrote:

I have a couple gateway 2000s. That battery is shot in both of them, and I had planned to up them alittle.I think they might be in my storage shed. They can barely run on windows 95.
I wonder if one can still find batteries for those?
Anyway, I wasn't really exepcting anyone to donate one. More looking for advice for a cheap one that'll take a little abuse.


Ya can, but they cost an arm and a leg. They are now really crappy Desktops lol.
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Originally posted by Cedric Cedric wrote:

I'd say save up and go for a macbook. You'll you it so much.
I'll you it? You mean use it?

Anyway, that is so not worth it for me. What would I want to do with a powerful laptop? Game. What can't you do on a mac (without bootcamp)? Game.

All I want to do is type.

Although they ARE uber-sexy machines. (the black ones)

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i have a 12 year old thinkpad. want that? it still has windows 3.1 on it(original install). not sure about ram, it has a 500mb hard drive. oh, and a floppy drive. the battery needs to be replaced.

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Originally posted by High Voltage High Voltage wrote:

i have a 12 year old thinkpad. want that? it still has windows 3.1 on it(original install). not sure about ram, it has a 500mb hard drive. oh, and a floppy drive. the battery needs to be replaced.pic
Do you know the type of battery it would take?
Even if the battery doesn't work, I'd love to take it off your hands.
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i can find the battery online possibly. let me look around, it may be about $100 for a replacement.
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Originally posted by High Voltage High Voltage wrote:

i can find the battery online possibly. let me look around, it may be about $100 for a replacement.
Even if you can't find the battery, I could probably use it just plugged in various places.
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Originally posted by BARREL BREAK BARREL BREAK wrote:

Originally posted by High Voltage High Voltage wrote:

i can find the battery online possibly. let me look around, it may be about $100 for a replacement.
Even if you can't find the battery, I could probably use it just plugged in various places.
Isn't linux great, you can make a crappy old machine useful again with modern convienences. Just throw damn small on there, apt-get abiword and bamb, homework machine

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
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