Thanks for the update. Your showing the Zotac box cost me about $150. (I had to have one after seeing yours.)
Thanks JK At 06:29 PM 1/19/2015, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
