At Linux Clinic on Sunday, we put together Larry's T60 thinkpad laptop (from a $20 carcass at Green Century) and rebuilt some of my spare pile. I finished upgrading them; 7 machines upgraded to the latest BIOS, 3GB RAM, new 2GHz 64 bit T7200 processors, replacing some T2xxx series 32 bit processors. Those will be my lifetime spares, until full-size screen laptops with trackpoints and shaped keys are for sale again, or I get a graphics brain implant.
BTW, I purchased 8 processors on eBay for $8.59 each from xhenxia-2011 in Hong Kong. They are clean and seemingly brand new, and all are working fine so far. The processors came in little plastic clamshell containers with AMD tags on them, and were wrapped with what looked like toilet paper. The "toilet paper" is actually slightly conductive (about 100 Giga-ohms/square ) so it is antistatic - perhaps it is a brand of tissue that just happens to be good for antistatic wrap. The T60s in use will get terabyte drives - I'm thinking of using the new hybrids. a terabyte of rotating disk and 8 gigabytes of SSD. The laptops will run Scientific Linux 7, which promises security updates until 2027. With the spare fans, keyboards, and screens, they should last a while, and I can worry about more important things than the hardware upgrade treadmill. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
