Recently, I bought one of these laptops to fulfill my childhood dream of owning a Tablet PC.Now, if you're trying to find a tablet PC under $100, this is the laptop to buy. (I got mine for $60 on ebay and +$30 for the special stylus (NO, a DS stylus will NOT work - lesson learned) and an IDE hard drive.) Just for my own use, I bought 2 1GB RAM sticks for $15 each, but that's not at all required.
It's sad to me that a laptop once worth $2,450 USD is now worth barely an iPod.
Until I get the IDE hard drive in the mail, I've been running an Xubuntu live USB
(With no additional work to get the tablet to work!)
And you would think the battery would be crap by now, but I still get around 2 hours worth of use - that's actually more than one of the newer laptops in my household!
I'll be updating my journey with this laptop on the following permanent page (http://jcoinster.blogspot.com/p/my-tablet-pc-old-charm.html) as well as on future blog posts!
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