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| James |
Free laptop!!Dad brought me this home from work today!Not bad to say it didn't cost me owt!! It's made by ACER, any good??? 
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| Sandman |
Depends how old it is and what spec Jimbo.
Hard to say. The price was right though. 
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| made-in-england |
Looks a wee bit ole and chunky but thats how youl ike alot things init jimbo
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| Mamodman123 |
Does it work lad?
Looks good for free 
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| tmuir |
Acer is a good brand. Depends on what you want to do with it as to if it is any good. | ||
| Mamodman123 |
Looks like an old PII to me 
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| tmuir |
I still use a PII 350 for a print server at work. 
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| Mamodman123 |
I use a PII laptop as a coaster 
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| tmuir |
I used to use a hard drive as a coaster but got rid of it as too many people freaked out when I put my beer on what they thought was a good hard drive. You would of thought the felt I had glued to the underside would of been a bit of a give away. 
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| Les |
It all depnds on what ever is loaded onto it, what it has on there operating wise. | ||
| johnreid |
If it can run a fairly recent browser, and take a wireless card it will do you fine. It doesnt take that much just to surf the web or read the forum.
I have a DOS machine to program a radio with. The radio has to be programmed with a slow, DOS machine, Windows will not work. The Radio dates from the mid 90s. |
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| Les |
Why didn't they want it? | ||
| James |
Aye it works perfect, and it's fast! All complete in a carry case thingy!
They didn't want it cos they have bought some brand new ones 
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| mc_mc |
Can't complain for free. Have you got the charger? What's the model number. It'd make a nice little Linux server. | ||
| James |
Aye it's got the charger, books and everything. And a box of floppy disks and a seperate floppy disk drive thingy.
It's a 514TXV whatever that means! |
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| Les |
Here are the specs. http://www.acersupport.com/notebook/html/tm514txv_specs.html |
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| James |
Bloody hell, that means nowt to me
How old is it? How much is it worth? That's the real specs!!
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| Mamodman123 |
a 500mhz celery
Still good for free, but it has no power at all
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| Mister Occlusion |
I would say Windows 98 would be appropriate, or maybe something like Vector Linux
We've been scrapping laptops of similar spec, mainly because Big Fat Fuzzy Panda antivirus makes them weep. Windows 98 also won't authenticate to a 2003R2 domain, meaning Microsoft has finally binned it as a network OS.. As to what it's worth... check ebay? A few years ago I would have said that any laptop that can run at least win98 (well) was worth $100. You certainly don't find them cheaper in used computer stores. But then there's a limit as to how old a machine they will bother trying to sell. |
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| Roly Williams |
It's a bit old and, by modern standards, low performance - but you could say the same about steam engines!
Just don't expect to run any new software on it. If what it's got works then use it. What has it got on it (if anything)? |
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| James |
Works, internet, everything
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| Roly Williams |
Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say. Give it a try and see how if performs. Works and IE cover most things you're likely to want to do. Works is a bit limited if you're used to something like Office, and the hardware will be a bit slow if you're used to a modern machine. If you don't expect too much from it then it'll be ok, though. Just don't try to download any high resolution bitmaps! |