G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 A friend of mine works IT for a local call center franchise and one of his coworkers gave him this for recycling. It's a Compaq v5000. He knows I have a hardware problem and gave it to me. Other than missing the g key and no hdd, it's in running condition. I had a ssd (16gb Samsung pulled from an old chromebook I bought off ebay) with fedora 13 on it,slapped it and booted up from power to login in 30 seconds. Not bad for a celeron m with 512 ram. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Steve T Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I just gave away one of these to a writer. Good machine for 8 years and still runs fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Hamza Abid Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I have the exact thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Peregrinus Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I remember those! That's awesome. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_J. C. Moody, Sr. Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Have one of those right behind me...cleaning it up for the grand daughter to start using it in addition to her tablet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Richard Sequeira Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Back when notebook's were easier to upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Peregrinus Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Richard Sequeira Most laptops now are not difficult to upgrade but it's fairly limited to begin with. You can install SSD in place of mechanical HD, install more memory, and possibly add BD drive in place of DVD-RW, etc. I'm guessing that you are speaking of how the laptop is held together making upgrades difficult? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 My Dell 11z has a ram access panel on the bottom and then the keyboard has to come out to change the hdd (switches to ssd). My c7 has one big panel that comes off and exposes everything and my old Asus eee pc had a panel for hdd and one for ram. My 2006 MacBook on the other hand..... 30 minutes to get to the hdd after removing pretty much the whole bottom half. This laptop, 2 panels. And they're "labled". Best part:no webcam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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