carl0s Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I have a cheap laptop which needs to go. It's a HP Omnibook XE3. Pentium-III 850Mhz (not the celeron or AMD duron version). Spec: 14.1" TFT Screen Pentium-III 850Mhz 128mb SDRAM. It won't take the 256mb sticks I have here . Just about to try a BIOS upgrade on that though. 20gb HDD 10/100 Ethernet 56k modem CD-Writer Floppy Drive New-ish battery (old one also provided) 9-pin Serial port The battery was replaced not long ago, and holds a good charge. All cables and a carry case are included. The CDROM drive plays up a bit - it seems it can take a couple of open/closes to get it to recognise a disc, but I'm working on that now. I had hoped to replace the unit with a Toshiba DVD/CDRW drive but the bezel doesn't fit. If you're really not fussy then I could still do that but it'd have a light-grey bezel which looks silly but works well Pictures to follow. One thing to note is that this is a very rubust machine - it has quite a hard-wearing design on the case. It's running Windows 98SE. I have a spare XP Home license on a completely-knackered machine, and could move that across but it'd really work better with XP if it had more RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 http://www.css-networks.com/omnibook/1.JPG http://www.css-networks.com/omnibook/2.JPG http://www.css-networks.com/omnibook/3.JPG Oh yeah, I only want £150 for it. plus delivery. or collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_have Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 How much Carlos? need a cheapo for mapping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_have Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 oops there we go. No, looking for around £80 ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 oops there we go. No' date=' looking for around £80 ish[/quote'] Sorry, i paid more than that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 blimey its like golddust getting a lappytoppy with serial cable these days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letmeshowyou Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 b'have - I work for an IT asset management company - what sort of spec are you looking at (ie what is required? serial port etc) Can get hold of pretty much anything I would have thought... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 b'have - I work for an IT asset management company - what sort of spec are you looking at (ie what is required? serial port etc) Can get hold of pretty much anything I would have thought... any chance of some kind of list being sent over to me? Or does one need to have an agreed account and purchase volumes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 £130 now for quick sale. Good laptop, very sturdy build quality, decent processor (P3), good screen. Serial port, good hard disk size. Ethernet, modem. can't say fairer than that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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