I Love Hunting

I don't hunt animals. I hunt silicon.

I went to a nearby sale, intending to get like three items, but when all of the ones I had specifically come for were snapped up, I went to Plan B--engulf and devour. As I watched the laptop I had intended to buy get carried away by someone who obviously overheard me talking about it, I knew it was time to just do what came naturally. I grabbed as many laptops as I could carry. Eight. Most were of the broken variety, but one was most surely not, judging by price.

I left behind two Omnibook 800 systems in favor of an Apple system when I realized the Omnibooks only had 16MB RAM and used custom modules.

What I ended up with:

Dell Latitude C840
Dell Latitude C640
Dell Latitude C600
HP Omnibook 6000
HP Omnibook 6100
IBM ThinkPad 560X
Apple iBook G3 Dual USB

The C840 was a killer deal. It was one of two computers that came with a hard disk. The other was the Apple. It also had a docking station with it. It was revamped at home with parts I had from a previous C840. I upgraded the CD-RW drive to a DVD/CD-RW drive, added another 256MB RAM module from the C640 to it, upgraded the CPU from the 1.6GHz P4-M that was in it to the P4 1.8GHz from the C640.

The C640 is on the sidelines for right now because it's a pretty base system, really.

The Omnibooks look pretty solid. I'm sure I'll be repairing them.