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Thu, 10 Mar 2005

Dell Inspiron 7000

Back in 1998, I bought a Dell Inspiron 7000 PII 266mhz monstrocity of a laptop which weighs in at over 8 lbs. It's really heavy. It's seen its fair share of action since then: it was toted back and forth between MA and CT while I was doing consulting work; it was abused by an x-girlfriend; it was shipped in a flimsy letter-sized envelope thing via USPS; and then it's been through several moves since I move on average once every 8 months. It's been through a lot.

The case is cracked, the things that latch the lid shut are broken, and the power adapter has been fixed a few times (the last one by Brian who had the right tools to fix it and thus it's been fine since [Thanks, Brian!]). Even so, I powered it up last night, did an apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade and it's going fine. Slow, but fine.

So this post is in homage to a laptop I bought back in 1998 that's stuck with me through thin and thick and is still usable even after all these years.

Dell Inspiron 7000 PII 266 mhz circa 1998 laptop, I salute you.

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Posted by wari on Thu Mar 10 22:01:03 2005
Oh my.. I got a MITAC 266Mhz as well.. Tough as a brick. The passive LCD did suck but it was the only thing I can afford at the time. Still works and can boot up. Did try to hack it into a digital photo frame, but since it is passive LCD, it sucked nonetheless. I wished I got a lower spec'ed machine but with active matrix LCD.

Right now it's not in what you call a useable state. :)


Posted by Jack Diederich on Fri Mar 18 16:27:17 2005
My Toshiba died a while back and I just replaced it with a Dell Inspirion 6000.  The Toshiba was a 500MHz PII, and if it hadn't quit I'd still be using it.  Decent sized screen and RAM is all I need in a laptop running linux.  If the Dell lasts four years I'll be happy. A 15.4" screen and a Gig of RAM shouldn't be obsolete anytime soon ... right?


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