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Post by theelf on Mar 12, 2010 12:36:44 GMT -5
Hi! Recently i buy from ebay a Toshiba 320CT notebook, for $38. Is small, lightweight and great for BasiEgaXorz development. Hardware Pentium 1 266MMX ;D wow, fastest pentium 1? 64mb (up to 96 ) 4GB..  later, i put a 40GB HD and work like a charm.. ;D !! 1024x600 widescreen !!! WOW!! for a '97 notebook!! IRDA USB 2 Cardbus slots!! great - Now i have USB2 and WIFI!!  VGA out I use WinME, and run perfect. I think for the price is a great development machine for BasiEgaXorz. I think is very difficult to find a old ,cheap, notebook, small, that have 1024x600 widescreen resolution!! Im very happy to buy it  |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Mar 12, 2010 17:21:59 GMT -5
How about the battery? $38! Wow! Much better than the shit that some cellphone carriers attempt to ripoff you  (with Vista and some incredibly poor 3G data plan) WinMe? Ouch... Anyway, stick to Gens on that thing, don't bother with Fusion |
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Post by theelf on Mar 12, 2010 17:42:19 GMT -5
Hi, the battery is used, and lasts 40m-1h deppends whether or not use wifi In a forum, say that new last 2-2:30 hs I use Gens and Genesist, but i like a lot, the Parallel port+MegaCD to test my roms ;D For $6 i buy a ZoomCard, that decode MPEG2 in hardware, i connect a usb DVD, and i can watch movies in the 16/9 screen!! pentium 1 power..jejeje I really like to push a old PC to the limit.... About Windows, i really like WinME, i found a great forum www.msfn.org/board/forum/91-windows-9x-member-projects/is incredible the active community of 9x users, that made some hacks, that make you win9x rock solid (GDI Heap Extender , Kernelx..etc) |
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Post by oompa loompa on Mar 12, 2010 17:57:14 GMT -5
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Post by theelf on Mar 12, 2010 18:02:56 GMT -5
Yes i think the same. But i never see netbooks with 300mhz pentium 1.. sure they exist.. 300mhz.. quake 1 dream machine..jejeje mm.. i like.. jeje, perfect notebook for the price, $ 30 , is 20 euro.. really cheap... But.. dont live in USA, and this ebay user not send to Spain. A lot of ebay users send to spain, and some of them make the mail cost very cheap. USPS to Europe is cheap, but a lot of ebay users, only use UPS or Fedex and the cost is to high... i dont understand because USPS is best... |
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Post by GiGaBiTe on May 25, 2010 22:11:03 GMT -5
USPS to Europe is cheap, but a lot of ebay users, only use UPS or Fedex and the cost is to high... i dont understand because USPS is best... USPS is NOT the best, it's the worst parcel carrier. They're backwards, slow and often lose packages for weeks or months, and sometimes you never see the package again. When you walk into a USPS office, you have to deal with mounds of confusing paperwork, and you also have pack and box your item yourself, then get the shipping label, etc. There are often time long lines of idiots in there also asking dumb questions and tying up the few available employees in the office for hours. On the other hand, you walk into a UPS store, hand them your item and tell them where its going and they do all of the packing, boxing and taping and slap the shipping label on. All you gotta do after that is give them the money and off you go. You also get a tracking number that tells you where the package is at any given time. USPS has a piss poor tracking system that works maybe 10% of the time and usually only shows up on the tracking after the item was already delivered. Also if you don't have time to goto the UPS store, you can schedule a local pickup at your house at a designated time. That in a nutshell is why most EBayers use UPS/Fedex instead of USPS. |
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Post by oompa loompa on May 26, 2010 11:14:41 GMT -5
USPS to Europe is cheap, but a lot of ebay users, only use UPS or Fedex and the cost is to high... i dont understand because USPS is best... USPS is NOT the best, it's the worst parcel carrier. They're backwards, slow and often lose packages for weeks or months, and sometimes you never see the package again. When you walk into a USPS office, you have to deal with mounds of confusing paperwork, and you also have pack and box your item yourself, then get the shipping label, etc. There are often time long lines of idiots in there also asking dumb questions and tying up the few available employees in the office for hours. On the other hand, you walk into a UPS store, hand them your item and tell them where its going and they do all of the packing, boxing and taping and slap the shipping label on. All you gotta do after that is give them the money and off you go. You also get a tracking number that tells you where the package is at any given time. USPS has a piss poor tracking system that works maybe 10% of the time and usually only shows up on the tracking after the item was already delivered. Also if you don't have time to goto the UPS store, you can schedule a local pickup at your house at a designated time. That in a nutshell is why most EBayers use UPS/Fedex instead of USPS. This topic is 2 months old, and you started talking about the USPS . You should have started a new topic instead of reply |
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later, i put a 40GB HD and work like a charm.. ;D !!
(with Vista and some incredibly poor 3G data plan)
