[H-GEN] Old laptops

Rod Hurford rod.hurford at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 20:43:16 EST 2015


Thanks to all who expressed interest in these laptops.
At this point in time they are taken, just needing to arrange collection.

Regards,
Rod
On 17 Dec 2015 12:12 pm, "Rod Hurford" <rod.hurford at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good Morning Humbug,
>
> I have 2 old laptops I no longer require/want.
> I thought that others may have a use for them (or could suggest a use for
> them?).
>
> They are:
> 1. HP Pavillion dv5, 4GB RAM, Intel Centrino 2(dual core P8600 @ 2.4GHz),
> 320GB hard drive (still has HP recovery partition, I think). Currently dual
> booting vista (!) and an old installation of gentoo I toyed with. Battery
> is completely stuffed. Keyboard is missing the "m" key (although the
> contact is still there and working).
>
> 2. Lenovo thinkpad T61 with a port replicator - purchased 2nd hand off
> ebay for express purpose of running linux so has no windows traces left on
> it. Also has Intel centrino (dual core T7300 @2GHz), 4GB RAM but only has
> 80Gb hard drive (I thought about an SSD but decided a replacement laptop
> would be just as affordable - now have a T410 also purchased 2nd hand off
> ebay). Replaced battery not long after purchase and this battery is still
> functioning albeit with much reduced operating time - haven't timed it but
> I suspect somewhere around an hour. I dropped this once so the corner of
> the case has a piece of plastic broken off.
>
> Both laptops are available for no cost (i.e. "free to a good home").
> If anyone is interested, please contact me on rod.hurford at gmail.com.
>
> If I can't give them away they'll go to the tip. I'm not in a real hurry
> to throw them out but they are taking up space.....
>
> Thanks
> Rod
>
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