Crossing Over to the Dark Side

[Gamer9430]

So in a stroke of luck, it was delivered to the tech coord's house today, and he will be bringing me it on Monday in school. While I wait for the hard drive, I'll use Elementary OS off of a FlashDrive and be happy. Once I get the disk I'll put Windows, eOS, and I'll try to hackintosh it. This is shaping up to be awesome!

 

[A.Goldberg]

So in a stroke of luck, it was delivered to the tech coord's house today, and he will be bringing me it on Monday in school. While I wait for the hard drive, I'll use Elementary OS off of a FlashDrive and be happy. Once I get the disk I'll put Windows, eOS, and I'll try to hackintosh it. This is shaping up to be awesome!

Cool man, I'd be interested to see how it turns out. Let me know what you think of the latitude. My dad's company recently traded in his ThinkPad T-series for a Latitude. He's extremely disappointed in the quality reduction.

 

[Gamer9430]

Crossing Over to the Dark Side

I got it today! So here is some info about it, and as soon as get home, there will be pics galore. It needs some cleaning, so I'll do that. I also be upgrading the RAM to 5GB using the 1GB stick it came with and a 4GB stick that I have. Also, to my surprise, it turned out to be the model with the backlit keyboard, webcam, fingerprint scanner, and what I still guess is NFC. So that was a huge bonus. I believe the processor was clocked at 2.4GHz, and it's a dual-core 1st Gen i5. I may (if I find some money and a good deal) upgrade the processor to a Quad-Core i7, but I'm not too sure if I'm going to do that.

Anyway, I'll be home in a few minutes (time flies while writing posts 🙂 ) and take some pictures! Can't wait to tri-boot Windows 7 Pro/OS X Yosemite/ElementaryOS Freya on this, XD

 

[MagicBoy]

i5-520M then... 😉

Issue with an i7 quad upgrade is that the TDP is higher. *IF* Dell fitted that CPU then you'll have to check the heatsink is the correct part number.

 

[hellothere231]

These are worth considering too, I picked mine up for £40.
The HP Compaq NC2400 - magnesium alloy frame 12" notebook with DVD writer, bluetooth, wireless, 1.2ghz Core Duo, 1280X800 LCD and Firewire.
Same size as a 12" Powerbook but twice as powerful.
Mine dual boots Elementary OS (real slick Mac OS style Linux distro) and XP - shown here running Octamed Sound Studio under WinUAE.

I have a NC2400 that I use for school. I installed Lubuntu 14.10, and it's a really great machine; keyboard's amazing, too. Probably one of the best laptop keyboards I've ever used, other than my Powerbook G4. Mine came with 2 gigs of ram, but the battery's dying. Got it for about 80 bucks (CAD), about as much as you paid for yours.

 

[Gamer9430]

I have a NC2400 that I use for school. I installed Lubuntu 14.10, and it's a really great machine; keyboard's amazing, too. Probably one of the best laptop keyboards I've ever used, other than my Powerbook G4. Mine came with 2 gigs of ram, but the battery's dying. Got it for about 80 bucks (CAD), about as much as you paid for yours.

Very nice! I'll take a look at that to see how nice it is.

Anyway, here is an update. My hard drive has been shipped, and I'll soon have an ETA. The RAM has been upgraded to 5GB. I got a hard drive caddy ($2). Finally, I'm going to get a 9 cell 8800MaH battery for $26, which should really help the shortened battery life on the moderate condition normal 5---MaH battery. The down side to that battery is that it weighs an extra 1lb, but I don't mind. I have determined that I'll install ZorinOS 9 (windows-like Linux with a lot of animations and cool stuff), Windows 7 Pro, and I'm still considering OS X, but the no sleep mode will kill me. Sorry for not getting up pictures, but I'll try today. I've been stupidly busy over the past few days and that hasn't been too much of a priority to clean it and prep it for some pictures. Luckily, today is a light(er) day in terms of stuff I have to do so I'll try to get those pics.