Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
Christmas scores... none were true gifts, so I'm counting them here:
-Lenovo Thinkpad T440: $50. Visited my best friend who has been flipping laptops lately. This was one he was given for free (trade for setting up a new laptop). He replaced some broken plastics (still cosmetically rough), but otherwise didn't do much to it (hence the low price; not easily sold due to the crappy cosmetics). The good: everything seems to work and be linux friendly (including the touchscreen!), and it has an intel 7260 AC card in it already (and a spare M2 slot, for future expansion?). The bad: It has a somewhat anemic Haswell i5 4200u (1.6GHz x2) and the embedded windows 8 key is standard, not pro (but might have SLIC 2.1 since windows 7 was an option on these apparently). Has a 120GB PNY SSD in it. Might become my new "behind the truck seat" travel machine, replacing/joining my Asus transformer T200TA and my HP 8" windows 8 tablet. Won't replace my venerable Dell Latitude E6430 (main laptop), whose Ivy-Bridge i7 has double the cores and double the passmark score... :p
-Two old ATI All-In-Wonder AGP cards. My father-in-law was cleaning out the junk drawers of one of his toolboxes, and among other things (to include a SATA DVD Burner) he tossed my way was these two cards and the AV breakout cables to go with them. One of them is a Pinnacle branded card and breakout, the other is straight up ATI (and has a TV tuner, unlike the other card). These will be given/traded to Topcat, so perhaps you'll see them in a future build?
Christmas scores... none were true gifts, so I'm counting them here:
-Lenovo Thinkpad T440: $50. Visited my best friend who has been flipping laptops lately. This was one he was given for free (trade for setting up a new laptop). He replaced some broken plastics (still cosmetically rough), but otherwise didn't do much to it (hence the low price; not easily sold due to the crappy cosmetics). The good: everything seems to work and be linux friendly (including the touchscreen!), and it has an intel 7260 AC card in it already (and a spare M2 slot, for future expansion?). The bad: It has a somewhat anemic Haswell i5 4200u (1.6GHz x2) and the embedded windows 8 key is standard, not pro (but might have SLIC 2.1 since windows 7 was an option on these apparently). Has a 120GB PNY SSD in it. Might become my new "behind the truck seat" travel machine, replacing/joining my Asus transformer T200TA and my HP 8" windows 8 tablet. Won't replace my venerable Dell Latitude E6430 (main laptop), whose Ivy-Bridge i7 has double the cores and double the passmark score... :p
-Two old ATI All-In-Wonder AGP cards. My father-in-law was cleaning out the junk drawers of one of his toolboxes, and among other things (to include a SATA DVD Burner) he tossed my way was these two cards and the AV breakout cables to go with them. One of them is a Pinnacle branded card and breakout, the other is straight up ATI (and has a TV tuner, unlike the other card). These will be given/traded to Topcat, so perhaps you'll see them in a future build?
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