Dell D800 owners?

[Slamman]

Yes, well, get out in the world, young man.

You'll find there are homeless people older then me, but that has nothing to do with this.

I was merely asking if someone had experience with this Dell.

Thanks for the bashing, much appreciated I'm sure... If your friends find that behaviour desirable. I'm sorry I should live such a boring, normal life to be excepted, I don't agree with society conventions to a T.

 

The World is filled with difference.

[Digïtál £vîl]

Either way, I will buy new, when it is ACTUALLY affordable. Right now, it just isn't.

Sh*t...you're gonna be waiting a long time to buy new then because new will never be "affordable" to you. New things cost more moneyz, kay?

 

Why are you people trying to convince him anyway? It's like talkin' to a wall. He's 42. Everyone knows that you can't change the habits of a middle-aged man.

I'm not 42, you got your facts wrong. I am a deal seeker, so I will not be buying much new. I've heard this argument before and the point is not what this thread is about so you can veer off that tact now.

 

I maybe alone in a hobby sense of hotrodding old tech, but I have no shame in admitting I got satisfaction out of it.

 

I have more then one computer so it is not a matter of this or that.

Regardless, I am being flamed for personal preference which is just plain stupid. Grow up yourself, kiddies

Oh, sh*t. You're 41. We are sooooo sorry for that minor statistical error.

 

Wait, you're 41, and spend hours on an internet forum with people who are young enough to be your children, and spend your time trying to upgrade sh*t computers.

 

So let me get this straight.

• You have no steady job
• Instead of saving your money, you buy severely outdated computers
• You have little interest in finding a job
• And rather than find a job upgrading modern computers and selling them, you prefer to lose money by spending it on old computers

As you can see, I think the fact you're 41, are unemployed, and spend a great deal of time on an internet forum to be rather pathetic qualities of a human being.

 

I have a reason to waste my time on here. I'm 18, just graduated highschool, going to college next year, I'm on my summer holidays, and I don't work today. I worked yesterday though, and I'm working tomorrow and both days on the weekend. Which is more than I can say for you.

 

Oh, and hotrodding old tech is probably as much of a hobby as scraping sh*t off your skidmarked Fruit-of-the-Loom's.

Just wait, he is going to reply how it is his life choice, thus it can't be wrong. Even though everyone looks down on him for it.

[Otter]

You guys are being f*cking twats, you know? Call the guy out for spamming the f*ck out the forums, sure, but this obsession is wearing a little too thin. He's really rather benign.

[lesfleanut]

One day they will feel the wrath of slamman, he shall have slammed all of their men.

[Slamman]

My thought is after 20 years out in the work force, you've earned the right to call me lazy. I am taking my time to find the RIGHT job, not ANY job to follow up a semi-career in home building. I can't get into a profession that is at the mercy of a sh*t economy.

I want to make enough bread to buy that nice quad core gaming rig I heard so much about. Until then, this pet-project is intended to run my own copies of GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas.

If a $110 128MB nVidia card can allow me to do that, that will make me happy. Bitch to someone else.

I am lazy, I admit, it. Fine.

[GTA3Rockstar]

I am taking my time to find the RIGHT job

A little too much time.

[papanesta]

Wooow, that toaster is f*cking hightech.

[G MONEY $$$]

I want to make enough bread to buy that nice quad core gaming rig I heard so much about.

If you can't afford stuff, shouldn't you be spending your money on things that won't become obsolete with a couple years...maybe less.

[Slamman]

Two things RE this

I looked on eBay, though these start at $30, they don't sell that low, here's just one auction as an example;

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Latitude-D800-Cen...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

The other thing is I am planning to use these, and I use them a lot! I also plan to sell or give my old ones as gifts to my family... No cost for christmas and birthdays right there.

 

As I said, for a widescreen DVD player on the go, this is mighty fine for my small demands. As far as running San Andreas on it, I checked my PC copy, says 64 to 128 Megabytes should do fine and the minimum spec is 1Ghz Pentium 3. OS is Win 2K Pro, which I have as well as XP Pro/Home.

 

I got a COA with this laptop and that alone costs $30 on the market. I bought a COA for my EVO, so I know the cost on those. The price now may change, but I can't worry too much about short term, for me it'll fill the needs I have and it will have two batteries right off the bat. (added the module drive batt)...EDIT addendum

 

Another Dell auction, this one is Paypal which I don't have, but I'd bid on it so we'll see!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-inspiron-9300-lap...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

Looking for an update on those video cards, the nVidia ones are the same model I found record of but two sellers claim there is an M6 (7?) Radeon 9600 model also available that is the fastest compatible option. It APPEARS to have a ATI label on it. The nVidia ones have a silkscreen on the daughterboard under the heatsink shield.

All are 128MB but that outperforms earlier 64MB cards that the C series offered.

I noticed on the high price range end of the D's, they're $300 BINs, the upper spec's Inspirons with even 17 inch screens are about that price as well on eBay, so again if I were spending that on a laptop, I'd upgrade even further.

You can see from the pics, there is a SD card slot and DVI output. HDTV friendly. HDTV USB tuners are priced around $100 and analog TV is being closed down, so to speak, here in the Americas next year. It's an affordable HDTV solution that can travel anywhere.

Edited June 26, 2008 by Slamman

[Cursed]

I wouldn't like to use computers like that as a main PC, but I find something fascinating about older computers. The other day I built up a PC from spare parts, P3 866MHz, 512MB RAM etc. In total the PC cost £5, and thats what I payed for the Compaq CRT monitor. These older PC's I have are fine for the Internet and basic things, but I would rather save up and have one decent PC, rather than several spares. I'm lucky enough to have both.

 

Unfortunatly I have no laptops .

[Slamman]

Me too, I swore I'd never get a Pentium II Slot 1 board, but wound up owning a couple Socket 7s as well. Got the AMD and Intel CPUs for them, but I know, performance wise, in 2000, they were already lathargic/enemic.

 

Still, the used computers I got with Windows 95 I updated to Win98 and they had Office 97 running on them, and photo editing is most of my work, so every platform, even the Toshiba's with 90Mhz P1s work for digital editing and music! I find a use for them! haha

[Slamman]

*** BUMP! ****

 

 

I know you'll prefer this buried, but I updated all the drivers, installed Win XP finally and got two drives off eBay for it as well...

I had to buy a RayOVac Universal AC adapter to get it up and running ASAP.

 

It has no issues now but the driver I initially downloaded from support.dell.com

 

Seemed broken in two parts and wouldn't install.

My first area of problems was no AC, so the battery was used installing Windows off restore disc.

I brought this up in another thread. The solution for this turned out to be XP's Recovery Console, using the FixBoot command.

This allowed me to pickup from where I was left when the battery cut out!

 

All the worry about why this laptop was sold As Is, supposedly not working, turned out to be unfounded and oddly strange, as it fired right up with a power source. I had apprehension there was no AC and only battery power, having encountered that before as well, In one case, a poor solder joint.

There is slight damage to the casing suggesting something of pressure, though not severe like a fall to a hard surface, there is a broken lid latch and the operational fault is a white circle visable from the backlight LCD...this seems like a display error but it really only came about due to pressure on the back casing against the LCD elements (several sandwiched panels make up the main LCD casing).

The farthest panel of the LCD 'panel' in the rear is a white plastic panel used for the backlighting reflection I imagine, and sadly, the bulky logo Dell imparts to the back casing makes an impression if force was applied out of the normal.... which is the case here it seems.

 

I disassembled a few of these and the repairs needed have little to no resources, but CAN be done, I do want to impart, if you buy matching panels that are broken in various other ways...the cost can be worth your time. Broken panels are not hard to find, but matching two up that are identicle is!

 

You also can't get shops to take on this task, you're on your own. They charge to put a full panel in it's plastic case, which anyone can actually do.