carl0s Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 IBM Thinkpad R50e. £75 £50 + post, or collection welcome from Altrincham, WA14. Left-side hinge is broken. Some keys are missing off keyboard. A/C Adapter is missing. Screen is in great condition. Can't see any dead pixels or pressure marks or anything like that. Only 1 duff pixel. Spec: 15" TFT XGA (1024x768) screen. No serial port Parallel port USB2 ports 2x Cardbus ports DB-15 VGA Monitor port Pentium-M 1.5GHz (Centrino-type Processor, supposedly similar performance to a Pentium-4 @3.0GHz). 512mb RAM 40gb HDD, unused as new. CD-ReWriter/DVD Player Ethernet Modem XP Home Edition, genuine with COA. Battery information says the battery is holding 32.14Wh, design capacity 47.52Wh, so the battery is about 67%, or two-thirds the health of a new battery. So not too bad really. The insides of this machine came from a brand-new (new old stock) machine I bought off eBay. I took the hinge, keyboard & battery from the brand new one for a customer's machine that one of our kids knocked onto the floor & damaged the hinge of. I also sold the A/C adapter to a customer. So the HDD is nice and healthy, and the screen is excellent. Probably be a good base for a Carputer. The keyboard is extremely easy to replace on these machines if somebody was to buy to think about repairing. It's three screws underneath, labelled with a picture of a keyboard. No plastics to pull off or anything. Pics: http://www.css-networks.com/r50e/1.jpg http://www.css-networks.com/r50e/2.jpg http://www.css-networks.com/r50e/3.jpg £75 £50 + post. Post will be £20 with RM Special delivery though, unless buyer wants it sent uninsured standard parcels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 I just found a dead pixel. 1 dead pixel is still pretty good though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboBrett Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 theres always someone trying to get my pennies:( got a couple of questions:) 1 XP Home Edition, genuine with COA. - is that like the windows cd? 2 do you have a disk for it with all the drivers? i know the lenovo site has them all on but it can be a twat to get them off:( 3 where abouts on the screen is the dead pixel, id probably only use it for browsing and programming just as long as its not right in the middle:sly: i aught to not buy it but ive got 5 donor ibms here from privious hobbies:eyebrows: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 Hiya. The dead pixel is actually a stuck pixel, and you probably wouldn't notice it's there. It's as good as any other brand new LCD screen. It's stuck a light-blue or grey colour, not far off the colour of the background above. If I was any good at geography I could tell you where it is on the above pictures, but I'm crap! The COA means "certificate of authenticity", which is the sticker with the install key. It's the thing that makes it a legitimate, paid for, proper version of Windows XP. It doesn't have recovery disks because it has a recovery partition instead. You hit the blue Access IBM button to enter IBM Rescue & Recovery. To be fair though, finding drivers on the Lenovo site is very easy for Thinkpads because they all have a Type number, e.g. 2668-PEG, which describes the exact spec/model, a bit like Dell's service tags (except not unique like the Dells). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 I will quite happily supply a Windows XP Home Edition OEM cd-rom with the machine in case you ever need to re-install or do a repair install/in place upgrade. It will be a copied disk but entirely legal and above board because you have the cd-key/install code on the sticker under the machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 Stuck pixel is here (in the middle of the sea, so geography wouldn't have helped much!). If you look at the above pictures you will see that the black part of the wallpaper is right at the top, and you can see the yellow line on the wallpaper. This should allow you to understand where the stuck pixel is. I really shouldn't be so honest about things. When I took photos of the N95 I sold Jake, I made it look much worse than it was. This is a class 2 LCD screen, and you would not be able to return a laptop with a screen like this if you just paid £1500 for a brand new laptop, because this is "class 2", accepted as normal/standard. As of 2007, most manufacturers specify their products as Pixel Fault Class II. http://www.css-networks.com/r50e/dp.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboBrett Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 yeah i would be ok with that, i know the trick with the lcd screens, my cousin tryed to return a 42" lcd with 3 dead pixels in the centre bugged the life out of us.. they wouldnt allow a return he threatened with trading standards and got a spotless one with in the week:d i have a oem xp home disk was just unsure of what it meant cheers;) im going to wait and think over it i have just bought a new rifle and starting up shooting again my wallets already crying:d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 Okie Dokie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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carl0s Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 £50 ? Any takers? Reckon I could get delivery down to maybe about £12 by doing 2 - 3 day delivery service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboBrett Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 i was just thinking about this at work and thought id have a look not been on in a couple of days, ill take it at that mate if its still there, pm on its way;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 Cool. That's my Focal speakers paid for now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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