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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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 Posted - Nov 23 2009 : 7:36:12 PM
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My beloved Toshiba satellite 1905-S301 is offically dead. It barely loads up. It is horribly slow. The battery is completely dead, the charge port is almost ripped out, the touchpad is dead. It's big, heavy and not pleasant to look at. It has served me well since 2007 and also worked as my main computer while i was getting me desktop working. I think it is just time for something new. I may work on the power port someday but electronics aren't as interesting to me anymore. I was using it as a great media center. May you rest in peace my good friend, may you live again someday.
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
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Posted - Nov 23 2009 : 8:12:42 PM
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I have a 13 years old laptop that I still occasionally use. Beat that. LOL!  |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Nov 28 2009 : 11:41:14 AM
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That sucks.
My Tandy 1400 still works fine after all these years. Hanging around my computer shop I have some very old laptops. I don't remember exactly what model, but there is a large (think big pizza box) NEC laptop old enough to have a red plasma display. Additionally I have one of the original IBM "portable computers" sitting beside my desk as a printer stand.
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Nov 28 2009 : 11:55:58 PM
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That's cool, I really liked your P90 Compaq though, reminded me of my first laptop.
It's like the picture but mine had an external floppy drive, a little ball type thing on left of the keyboard for the mouse, no docking station, and it was black. Eventually the screen cracked, then a few weeks later, went white. If you held the screen ribbon just right you could use it but then it stopped booting up. I can't remember what version of DOS i used. I can't remember the processor in it.
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Nov 28 2009 : 11:57:31 PM
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Originally posted by Yerboogieman
That's cool, I really liked your P90 Compaq though, reminded me of my first laptop.
It's like the picture but mine had an external floppy drive, a little ball type thing on left of the keyboard for the mouse, no docking station, and it was black. Eventually the screen cracked, then a few weeks later, went white. If you held the screen ribbon just right you could use it but then it stopped booting up. I can't remember what version of DOS i used. I can't remember the processor in it.
Also, I can't upload the picture. |
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jnewman
Apprentice
United Kingdom
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Posted - Nov 29 2009 : 08:21:25 AM
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| My first laptop was a Toshiba satellite 110cs with a 100mhz pentium, and 8mb ram (upgraded to 24). Still have it now, and works fine (apart from the occasional problem with the screen which requires that i 'flex' it to fix it). Came with Windows 95, but I have used it with NT4, and it's currently running DOS for Qbasic programming |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Nov 29 2009 : 2:43:43 PM
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| That sounds like a pretty nice laptop. Back in the day, we used to say 24 was FAST! Now we have gigabytes and terabytes of memory. |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Dec 01 2009 : 09:23:25 AM
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| Unfortunately, my 660LX died of the same fate about 2 years ago. The screen just suddenly went white, and for a while, a few hard taps would make it work again. Then it became totally orange, from which there was no recovery. A few months later it worked again for a few more months, but now the screen is dead. The backlight comes on but nothing else. This really is the computer I use most often, so I was able to find another one in a pile at the office. Now I just need to swap the screens. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Dec 01 2009 : 6:23:02 PM
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| I just want a really old laptop with at least windows 95 on it. If you think about it, old laptops are pretty small, i can work with a 9-12inch screen pretty well. The only heavy thing is the battery. |
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jnewman
Apprentice
United Kingdom
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Dec 04 2009 : 6:53:16 PM
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| Forget computers. I am using my dad's old computer because my desktop just went out. It stopped booting up all together, i think bad hard drive. But there were no signs and it boots into safe mode fine. |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Dec 05 2009 : 10:44:37 AM
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I've actually sold a few Librettos and the new version, the Portege. Great little machines. Not cheap though.
Now of course, $299 netbooks will go 90% of the way. I just hate how they are getting BIGGER instead of smaller. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Dec 05 2009 : 5:03:11 PM
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| I have found myself fixing an unbelievable amount of Dell computers lately. I just got a customer who claimed "Well, there was nothing wrong with it when I brought it to you." I had a different story. That was the worst computer I have ever fixed. I have fixed a lot of computers. |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Dec 06 2009 : 10:23:58 AM
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Dell does not make quality computers, in general. Their consumer level machines are very problematic. Any of the plastic cased Dells (think Optiplex) are of very poor quality.
To avoid the "there was nothing wrong when I brought it to you" (then why did they drop it off?), always boot up the machine on the bench before the customer leaves. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Dec 07 2009 : 12:42:31 AM
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| I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Most of them are Dell Dimension (plastic). That computer, we had left it on and there was someone doing something on it, I opened a notepad and typed something and they were swearing in Mandarin Chinese. I was later told that the woman who said that "wasn't all there". |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Dec 13 2009 : 11:08:54 AM
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| Everyone thinks they are being hacked when their computer acts weird. I don't know why. |
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My laptop is officially dead.
