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thunder7	2008-02-03 , 02:15
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Originally Posted by phillane

I have an old Rock laptop (3.4ghz, 1gb ram, 60gb HD) which has died on me. I think the display is busted. However, I don't really want to bin it and was wondering if anyone has any interesting ideas for canabalising it and making something useful from it.

Idea's requiring the purchase of parts etc also welcome.

Phil

If its a Pentium 4 (Not a P4M) then junk it. When the P4M (Mobile) cost far more than a desktop P4 CPU many of the laptop manufacturers decided to use the desktop CPU in laptops. The piece of crap was such a power hog and heat pig that a battery charge usually never lasted mroe than an hour and the power supply was a brick. Eventually they would cook themselves because there was no adequate way to dissapate all the heat from that CPU.

So, like I said- If its P4- Junk it.

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