On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 06:29:07PM -0800, 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.
I used all the T7200 processors from Hong Kong, and will order 8 more. Some will be donated to Free Geek. Is anybody else interested in a few of these? I will not be doing more upgrades at the Clinic - too many other needs - but I would be glad to participate in a laptop rebuild afternoon if someone else hosts and organizes it. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
