Second update on the laptops I saved
So, I finally got around to the laptops. It's been 3 months so I decided to go ahead and do it.
The MacBook boots, the only thing wrong with it is the hard drive was dead. Sadly I was doing some work on it and lost most of the outer case screws, I'll have to buy replacements on eBay.
The search still continues for a genuine Compaq Armada adapter. I did find out that it has 32MB RAM and a 2GB Hard Drive though.
The HP laptop I mentioned is a DV2000 - I still haven't gotten around to messing with it, but I know it works because I tested it real quickly before throwing it back into the box. It has a Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo), 2GB RAM, and I believe the hard drive was an 80GB).
I also recently got 3 more laptops, two HP 530s (one works, the other is missing a hard drive and has a dead backlight and/or inverter. It boots up with the HP screen with no backlight, then shows the no hard drive error, and then the screen slowly fades away) and a Lenovo B570. The B570 is a Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM and a 320GB HDD. It does work, but it's in pretty terrible shape and needs all of the screen assembly replaced (The screen works, just the plastic around it is beaten up and the hinges are only being covered up by electrical tape)
The other Toshiba laptop I mentioned is not the one I posted about a few days ago, I still haven't gotten around to booting it. I did look at the palmrest to see the stickers for the basic hardware it has, which is a Core i5 and some sort of Dedicated Graphics.
The MacBook boots, the only thing wrong with it is the hard drive was dead. Sadly I was doing some work on it and lost most of the outer case screws, I'll have to buy replacements on eBay.
The search still continues for a genuine Compaq Armada adapter. I did find out that it has 32MB RAM and a 2GB Hard Drive though.
The HP laptop I mentioned is a DV2000 - I still haven't gotten around to messing with it, but I know it works because I tested it real quickly before throwing it back into the box. It has a Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo), 2GB RAM, and I believe the hard drive was an 80GB).
I also recently got 3 more laptops, two HP 530s (one works, the other is missing a hard drive and has a dead backlight and/or inverter. It boots up with the HP screen with no backlight, then shows the no hard drive error, and then the screen slowly fades away) and a Lenovo B570. The B570 is a Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM and a 320GB HDD. It does work, but it's in pretty terrible shape and needs all of the screen assembly replaced (The screen works, just the plastic around it is beaten up and the hinges are only being covered up by electrical tape)
The other Toshiba laptop I mentioned is not the one I posted about a few days ago, I still haven't gotten around to booting it. I did look at the palmrest to see the stickers for the basic hardware it has, which is a Core i5 and some sort of Dedicated Graphics.
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That's definitely not a genuine adapter - the original one was beige like the computer (I've seen some pictures of a genuine adapter). I don't like non-genuine AC adapters because I've seen them fry laptops before and just don't want to take a chance.
I decided just to post another update as a reply to this thread. I got to messing with the HP Laptop. I must've really skimmed the specs while messing through it quickly, because it actually has an AMD Turion 64 TL-58 Screen and a 160GB HDD, along with some sort of nVidia graphics. The screen has a couple horizontal lines through it, and it needs a new screen, which is $45. Not sure if it's worth that.