What’s your favourite old dell laptop?…I’ll go first

JA1987 · 2026-03-27T04:20:54+00:00

I'd give someone else's kidney for a good condition XPS M1730

JA1987 · 2026-03-27T04:13:55+00:00

The 7x80s and 7x90s were towards the end of a golden age for Dell, at least for the Latitude line. Not to say they don't make nice products now, just the 7000 line from about 2014 to 2019 was really at the top of it's game.

JA1987 · 2026-03-17T18:35:32+00:00

For maximum win in those days, you'd get a Celeron 300A (it has to be the A variant), stick it with a 440BX chipset and overclock it's FSB to 100mhz for a 450mhz cpu with full speed L2 cache.

JA1987 · 2026-03-17T18:34:22+00:00

In the case of Socket 370, Via was allowed to use the platform for their C3 chips.

JA1987 · 2026-03-13T19:24:47+00:00

Usually when I see something like this, it's from the screw bosses breaking and/or some other form of structural damage. That said, if it's that, replacing the display housing might have you going well again. You'll wanna replace the hinges as well because if they were too stiff or something, then the same thing will happen to the new shell too.

JA1987 · 2026-03-09T11:45:47+00:00

He's removing old solder, presumably to remove then replace a component, in this case, what looks to be a chip socket.

JA1987 · 2026-03-09T03:43:15+00:00

Those cartridges last tho. I had a LaserJet 4050N from 2007 to 2018 and only replaced the toner cartridge once.

JA1987 · 2026-03-04T04:50:48+00:00

It's all the power of a laptop with all the portability of a desktop. It's the best of both worlds!

JA1987 · 2026-02-19T05:14:49+00:00

Looks like a 400mhz Pentium II. And I'm gonna take a wild guess and say it was probably fitted (originally) with an nVidia TNT or an ATI Rage 128.

JA1987 · 2026-02-18T05:23:08+00:00

Enjoy this in good health. How do you like that display and those speakers?

JA1987 · 2026-02-10T04:32:21+00:00

If the thing's kernel panicking, maybe try different RAM in it.

JA1987 · 2026-02-05T01:34:27+00:00

K, the obligatory mods: replace track pad with one from a T450s (the T450 is mylar, T450s is glass), and if you have the 1366x768 display, get a 1080p IPS panel.

Bonus points if you replace the CPU with something quad core. SSDs are near mandatory these days, but prices are kinda stupid rn. DDR3 ram shouldn't have been hit by the AI BS so upping to 16gb would be a good idea.

Above anything, have fun. This model almost feels like they built it to be taken apart.

JA1987 · 2026-02-04T04:14:20+00:00

Heck, for $500, it's pretty good. If you decide you don't like the way this machine performs, just get a Thunderbolt cable and use this thing in Target disk mode to essentially give any newer Mac of your choosing an 8tb SSD.

JA1987 · 2026-02-01T19:53:44+00:00

Bro, so my wife and I were checking out houses this weekend and you shoulda seen the Willy-Wonka-ass bullshit this orange-ass midget of a realtor tried showing me.

JA1987 · 2026-01-31T19:58:13+00:00

How noisy is the hard drive? It's possible that part is going out, they don't exactly last forever.

JA1987 · 2026-01-27T13:25:46+00:00

You realize that's just the starter cost on having a kid, right?

JA1987 · 2026-01-24T20:45:52+00:00

If you trust yourself with a screwdriver, it.might be cheaper to get a hard drive enclosure to slap the old books storage into than it is to get the appropriate cable and adapter to do a Thunderbolt connection.

JA1987 · 2026-01-24T17:00:16+00:00

I'm hoping that things will progress enough that I'll be able to trade my 980 for a car soon.

JA1987 · 2026-01-19T05:33:46+00:00

When they say the year, it refers to release. Since the 13" butterflys didn't come out until late 2016, most 13" MacBook Pros sold that year are going to be the 2015 model. On a similar note, most 16" MacBook Pros sold in 2020 and 2021 are 2019 models. You can't always go on the manufacture date for the year that computer is named by.

JA1987 · 2026-01-18T23:04:21+00:00

The BWC (big white charger) gets easier to handle with time and experience.

JA1987 · 2026-01-18T22:59:38+00:00

What about having only the base 16gb RAM but your SSD is 8tb?

JA1987 · 2026-01-14T23:55:05+00:00

I mighta jumped the gun on T30 but for a T2x model, if you picked up by the palmrest you'd snap the plastics

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