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Revitalizing an Aging Notebook On the Cheap
jcatcw writes "Brian Nadel's ThinkPad R50 just hit its fifth birthday, and the years haven't been kind to it. When it was new, the notebook was reliable and fast. Now it's slow and prone to annoying shutdowns. Is it a good investment to revamp a notebook that's worth about $350? It sure is, because this old notebook will get a new lease on life for about $125 — a bargain, considering what it could cost to replace." On the other hand, upgrading RAM, keyboard and hard drive don't get you a smaller (netbook-style) computer, a new battery, or the transflective screen on the Toshiba linked above.
Oh yeah, and you, and if you act fast, you can get a whopping 32k color screen to boot...
Oh wait...
No I don't recall what the actual color limit was, I just remember reading that new line of Mac LCD screens had appeared to revert to pseudo-color emulation using some very small subset of typically available colors...
Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
Actually, looking at what I typed, I realized it was actually 1920x1200. And yes, the Inspiron 8600 was released around Oct '03, which seems to me to qualify as "an almost 5 year old laptop".
Check your facts before making inane and incorrect sarcastic posts, dipshit.
Thank you, thank you.... I'll be here all night... Too bad Apple can't claim the same....
And to the Mac-butt-boy wanna-be, go fuck yourself.
Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?