Comments | thekumquat: FOR SALE

thekumquat

FOR SALE - Toshiba laptop

Jun 14, 2009 12:07

Listed this on Ebay a few weeks back but unfortunately it was won by a non-paying numpty, and by the time that was resolved, the other bidders had already bought other machines. Before I re-list, is anyone interested ( Read more... )

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thekumquat June 14 2009, 14:33:38 UTC

No probs. Had mentioned it to him previously.

oilrig June 14 2009, 11:56:42 UTC

Not interested myself, but if any f-list people are interested, I've got some salvaged memory that will perk it up a bit, XP will be a painful experience with only 128M.

lovingboth June 14 2009, 14:45:19 UTC

Depending on the cost, I might want a 512M DDR however-many-pins-laptop-memory-has SIMM.

conflux June 15 2009, 13:16:06 UTC

I am fairly sure it has 1Gb of memory and I think it has an 80Gb disk drive. I used to run a lot of apps on it with no problems.

lovingboth June 14 2009, 14:43:48 UTC

Were I to be looking for a s/h laptop, I would be very interested in knowing how much charge the battery held - replacing them is usually £50/60 or more. So if it is any good, put how long it will run on battery power in the info. If not, keep quiet :)

(Oh, and do XP licences expire??)

thekumquat June 14 2009, 20:14:46 UTC

The battery doesn't hold for long (30 min), but new ones are about £25.
And yes, I didn't mention it in the listing. Oddly, no-one asked!

The licence was from Conflux's work, so it's an expired site licence.
The machine has been appropriately signed off as written off by them, it's not been misappropriated or anything!

louis_mallow June 15 2009, 21:16:30 UTC

Has this gone? Am interested as I need a Ubuntu box.

thekumquat June 16 2009, 16:24:29 UTC

I was going to give ciphergoth first dibs, but if you're interested I'll poke him into a response. Conflux seems to think it has more memory and disk space than the original spec so I'll check that.

I'd be happy to come visit you guys for a day out and deliver it.

louis_mallow June 16 2009, 19:33:34 UTC

If P wants it that's cool, but come and see us anyway. If P doesn't want it, then bring it along.

We're away the weekend after the weekend coming, for my sister's wedding. Apart from that we'll see you whenever you fancy a visit. (It's a fair drive though, with a quatlet.)

thekumquat June 16 2009, 21:58:20 UTC

Love to. Does it have to be a weekend (feasible, probably)? And is it at all public-transportable to you?