FS: Old laptop with Fedora Core 16 Linux on it.
Straight_Man
Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
I will burn and include a FREE Fedora Core 16 Linux DVD with it(It at least has a DVD/CD-RW in it.). It has only 2 GB RAM, but that is the max it will take. This for anyone that wants to play with Linux or learn it. I have it working reasonably well with a Core Duo Centrino mobile CPU (Intel). It has a modem, a 14.5" display, and a Network port, and working sound speakers and microphone and plugins for headphones and microphone that also work(for Linux non-newbies, Fedora uses Alsa primarily to do this). Battery works well. UBS 2.0 of course, no USB 3.0. It will power off right, suspend right, and hibernate right. Default Fedora desktop is installed, as Gnome has less demands on RAM than KDE 4+ does.
$50.00 plus shipping with battery charger/power supply and old case. Why am I doing this??? Parts cost about, and the RAM upgrade kit meant I spent $38.45 on RAM for 2 SO DIMMS (lifetime warranty from Micron) because it had two 512 MB SODIMMS in it. Might go to $40.00 for a worthy person who wants to dual boot it to XP Pro(supplying their own copy of XP Pro data, there is still a sticker on bottom of it with a valid XP Pro key), but it is somewhat long in the tooth(RAM limits, especially) for Vista even, as it is now about 7-8 years old if you want to run anything major in Vista (Smallish games would work on low settings).
$50.00 plus shipping with battery charger/power supply and old case. Why am I doing this??? Parts cost about, and the RAM upgrade kit meant I spent $38.45 on RAM for 2 SO DIMMS (lifetime warranty from Micron) because it had two 512 MB SODIMMS in it. Might go to $40.00 for a worthy person who wants to dual boot it to XP Pro(supplying their own copy of XP Pro data, there is still a sticker on bottom of it with a valid XP Pro key), but it is somewhat long in the tooth(RAM limits, especially) for Vista even, as it is now about 7-8 years old if you want to run anything major in Vista (Smallish games would work on low settings).
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I'm out of town 'til Saturday then I'll take a closer look at what I could do with it.
Thanks,
John.
Lessee, LibreOffice (on computer) has a Draw program, a Writer program(quite full featured), a Spreashseet maker, a Presentations program, and I think a math formula program. It is the current development of OpenOffice that is now popular in Europe and is being more rapidly developed than OpenOffice. The Linux included has a bunch of programs on the computer already, that is just one example of a large set.
John.
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@Kwitko : would you like $40.00 plus shipping??? @BobbyiDigi : same thing??? I am building a dedicated Folding@Home box (somewhat modest) starting with an already purchhased bundle from Newegg that cost me $299.99 (selling both laptops will cover that) less the $10.00 mail-in rebate they should send along with order.
I have lots of smaller stuff (new and used) to sell to pay for the rest of the needs of the box, but think I will sell it locally or try to to save giving large ship costs per item to folks. Will probably post a WTB: post in Trading Post to get some of the rest of the parts, including an older graphics card and maybe a small HD-- will NOT be GPU Folding.
John.
Thanks,
Enjoy it, Bobby.
John.
Thanks John!
John.