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konicm8ker
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So today I had a client come in and give me a free "broken" laptop that wouldnt turn on and was covered in grease and what appeared to be dog hair everywhere. So i go through my every day troubleshooting, found the problem and fixed it. Next i disassemble the entire laptop and just start air dusting and cleaning connections like crazy. Now I'm a proud owner of a really old school laptop that I can probably keep alive for another 10 years :) This will be a perfect machine to test arch linux on 😃

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  • 6
    7y
    Is it a Satellite?
  • 7
    7y
    @Stuxnet yessir. Normally I'm not a toshiba fan but I mean, its FREE xD
  • 3
    7y
    @konicm8ker I've got one from like 2010 that I've got Mint on. Maybe I'll try some else soon.
  • 2
    7y
    @Stuxnet haha that's awesome. I also got one from 2010 too! Still kicking it was running linux mint for years until I installed elementary os last year on it.
  • 5
    7y
    @konicm8ker I'm probably going to try Elementary or Fedora next week.
  • 5
    7y
    @Stuxnet elementary is visually appealing, but you may not like the simplicity of you're a power user. I've had to hack my way through to the features I want. Still a great os though, I've never tried fedora.
  • 6
    7y
    @Stuxnet Elementary is so basic but its so pretty and fast and functional that I love using it
  • 5
    7y
    You description of its initial state make it sounds like this is a stolen laptop and your neighbour planted the crime evidence onto you.
  • 2
    7y
    @credibleWanker dammit, time to whip out the DBAN xD
  • 2
    7y
    @konicm8ker I just use is as a secondary laptop to mainly stream movies and TV shows on. Should be fine lol
  • 1
    7y
    Oh wow nice!!!
    Install Linux and create a file server off of it or whatever u want... enjoy!! 😎😎
  • 3
    7y
    ah toshiba, classic broken laptop lol

    it wouldnt turn on? what was the problem?
  • 1
    7y
    @webdev loose connection on power button xD easy fix.
  • 1
    7y
    @konicm8ker hahah I remember one guy with that problem..

    people used to bring me broken laptops to fix but if I said it cant be fixed, they didn't want it back.

    Sometimes by accident they just started work or once I removed the battery and had it directly on cord and it worked that way lol.

    I still have a bunch of 2.5" turned-external hdds at my parents house lol
  • 1
    7y
    I used this device before switching to my Lenovo Device

    Pretty good machine
  • 1
    7y
    We have a lot of these in my school
  • 1
    7y
    Toshiba sattelite, so many terrible memories. We had at least one a week when I worked in a computer shop.
  • 1
    7y
    @sylar182 that's odd. Aside from it getting a fuck ton of viruses while running win 7, mines been fine.
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