Pingback: Dapper to Hardy fails me « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Acidrip to the rescue « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: The curious looks « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: SCIM, Kazehakase and WebKit « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Nothing lasts forever « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: The downside of convenience « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Hardy beta on a diet « Motho ke motho ka botho Try 500Mhz w/32MB ram (4MB used for video) Pingback: Hardy continues to perform, even at 450Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: SliTaz 1.0 on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Still a favorite « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Wireless headaches « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Part of the allure « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: I like Brasero « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: An interesting setup « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Short jump to Hardy « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Adventures with cross-distro NFS « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Maybe it just takes three minutes « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Clock skew errors file modification in the future « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: The lion in winter « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Unraveling SCIM and UIM « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: So long, you crazy kid « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Whee! Crux at 1Ghz « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: Added Software page « Motho ke motho ka botho Pingback: And what exactly will sudo rm -rf do? « Motho ke motho ka botho It’s a rare bird that is this customizable and not horrifically expensive. If you can see your way to spending about US$150 on all the upgrades, gadgets and gizmos, you’ll be terrifically pleased. The 8200s in particular seem to hold their value, and while parts are not expensive, they’re definitely sitting in the low end of that price curve that I’ve talked about. I wouldn’t have invested in a machine like this if I didn’t have some sort of serious attachment to it. Tackle all that, and congratulations: You’ve built your own Precision M60. While you’re at it, get yourself a modular bay for a second hard drive, a modular DVD+-RW, a 250Mb zip drive, and multicolor palmrest inserts! □.But to be honest, the Phillips-branded Atheros cards that were standard in Thinkpads of this era are even better. Most of the 8200s I’ve seen come stock with Broadcom 4318 cards, and I used to suggest the 2200/BG as a replacement. The mini-PCI bay will hold an a/b/g wireless card and the frame is wired for an antenna.Even just typing a document in Google Docs can thow you into a fit of paging. Dell never documented the 2Gb memory limit for this machine, and given the weight of the web these days, you’ll probably want it.I am almost embarrassed to admit it, but after nearly a decade of pitching the NV18 as the go-to card for this model, I’ve converted to the dark side and installed the ATI Mobility 9000 … and am much, much happier for it.The 8200 is the only one that can run the 2.6Ghz P4, and only after the last BIOS update is applied.The 8000s were some of the most flexible, customizable machines Dell ever made (in my unprofessional opinion) and a top-of-the-line refit will run you less than the cost of a department store ultralight - and you might even get similar performance from it.Ī few caveats, if you wander down this road: It would be a while before I could reclaim an 8000-series machine, and afford to outfit it properly. We all make mistakes in life, and one of my smaller ones was sending this machine on to a new owner. Adaptec AUA-1422 DuoConnect USB2.0/1394 CardBus adapter □.80Gb Fujitsu MHV2080AH IDE hard drive in modular IDE adapter caddy.Sony 64Gb SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 R40 memory card in IDE-to-SDHC adapter.Qualcomm Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) MiniPCI network adapter.Advanced Micro Devices (ATI) RV250/M9 GL (Mobility FireGL 9000/Radeon 9000).2.60GHz Mobile Intel Pentium 4M CPU SL6WZ.I know, it’s boring, but it helps me distinguish between similar models. □Ī word about names: I just give each computer the serial number off the bottom of the case. The roster changes from day to day, but I’ll try to keep this page updated to reflect what’s in the stable at any given moment. I have owned more computers than I can remember, and I’m always on the lookout for talented team members.
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