broken laptop This week I bought myself a broken acer laptop. Specs: p4M 1.6 256 DDR Geforce 2 go 20 gig hdd 14.1 inc screen dvd The laptop had problems booting and the keyboard missed two keys. But when it booted, after a lot of shaking, it kept working.... I paid 155 € for this, with in my mind that the cpu + memory would be easely worth this second handed.... In case I would resell it. Today I disassembeled the laptop. Seems that the IR port is giving bad contact, and preventing the laptop from booting. But the rest works ! http://www.meloen.be/P1010115.JPG http://www.meloen.be/P1010116.JPG Bulding everything back into the original casing is an option, but the missing keyboard, and used state of the laptop is holding me back. So I'm thinking of building a lottle casing for the screen, and installing the computer behind it. E-mac style ! To be continued .... |
cheap thrills:) |
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edit: time for birdiehouse part 2 ;) |
Look around eBay; I replaced keyboards on my old IBM and Toshiba laptops several years ago. Once the model is obsoleted you get good price. I remember paying less than $20. |
I think I'm going to use it for modding purposes :) |
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"thrills" as in "P-M speedy machine" |
Acer keyboards can be ordered for a reasonable price fyi. Nice find! |
where richyB ? At acer self ? |
self? nice translation;) |
Just ask a shop that sells Acer Laptops. Tones.be shouldn't be a problem. |
i've broken a key from my Acer notebook. the shop where I bought it usually does great service, but they say they can't order a single key, or the entire keyboard. congrats on the great deal btw. a friend of me bought a while back a compaq notebook with a ~1Ghz CPU, DVD player and 192MB RAM. the battery only lasted max. 10 mins and windows is totally unstable. in the end WinXP even didn't want to install anymore. I put linux on it, with a lightweight windowmanager. speedier, 100% stable and the battery lasts 30 minute now. he paid 25€ for it :o |
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