Great video! Excellent seeing old laptops up and running. I have a 2013 14-inch Alienware running Linux Mint. I upgraded the ram to 32gb and put in a 1TB ssd drive. Works awesome. Thanks for sharing
@@BigBadBench They are! I must be getting old though I think I need to scale the fontage up just a smidge! 😂 And I would love some stickers. I can send a sase if you want some of mine! I can hit you up on discord.
Sweet! I've gotten a couple older Dell Optiplex systems recently I have plans for 😉 Also use an older MacBook Pro on our dinner table for watching stuff while we eat!
Enjoyed this one. TLA watched it with me! I am curious how you fixed the nub, though. Im also interested in replace the battery in my Lenovo now. Seemed easy enough.
@@JamiesHackShack I agree. I did a club presentation and my hotspot was dead. I need to resurrect it. I'll try to fix it in the next week. Have you been on much? I have repeaters that cover my house, but BM messed up the TG so I don't know what it is now
@@rufusrizzo78 I'll be honest I've not messed with it much at all since a few weeks after posting that video. I'm anxious to see if anyone out at defcon is playing with this stuff in the ham village this weekend.
@@chucksgarage-us that is a good question. I'm still running the nvme it came with I should look at pricing and also make sure there aren't any size limits (besides physical! 😄) thx for watching!
Currently I'm watching this on a 14" Dell Latitude E6420 from 2011, that I got from the ShopGoodwill online store for less than $100. It's pretty beat up, and has an optical drive so it's not quite thin and light, but with Debian 12 (GNOME desktop / Wayland) on an SSD with an i7-2720QM, it absolutely flies - I am gobsmacked at the performance. RUclips videos are no problem on the 1440x900 screen. I just hope its 8 gigs of RAM stay usable for the foreseeable future, allegedly it can handle more even though the specs say 8 GB is the max.
Great video! Excellent seeing old laptops up and running. I have a 2013 14-inch Alienware running Linux Mint. I upgraded the ram to 32gb and put in a 1TB ssd drive. Works awesome. Thanks for sharing
Hey Rudy thanks for watching! I remember the Alienware stuff always being the bees knees. 32G of ram! Wow nice!
They are such nice machines. The 1440 display is a nice bonus! Also, I need to send you some BigBadBench stickers!
@@BigBadBench They are! I must be getting old though I think I need to scale the fontage up just a smidge! 😂 And I would love some stickers. I can send a sase if you want some of mine! I can hit you up on discord.
Sweet! I've gotten a couple older Dell Optiplex systems recently I have plans for 😉 Also use an older MacBook Pro on our dinner table for watching stuff while we eat!
Nice! RetroMacPro dinner theater!
Hey Jamie. I've noticed you've missed something during the refurb...
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No RetroCombs stickers!
@@mkrleza Hey Mislav! You're right! There are a few others I need to get on here.
@@JamiesHackShackI can hook you up if you want one.
My Executive Producer looking out for me. 😂
@@retroCombs More likely, one Exec discreetly correcting another... LMAO
@@retroCombs 💯
Enjoyed this one. TLA watched it with me! I am curious how you fixed the nub, though. Im also interested in replace the battery in my Lenovo now. Seemed easy enough.
@@retroCombs the nub comes off pretty easy. I did take that from the donor keyboard. Thanks for watching!
I'd rather have a used Lenovo over a new $200 laptop every day of the week. They are just good laptops.
Hey we still need to try that DMR qso one of these days! 😂
@@JamiesHackShack I agree. I did a club presentation and my hotspot was dead. I need to resurrect it. I'll try to fix it in the next week. Have you been on much? I have repeaters that cover my house, but BM messed up the TG so I don't know what it is now
@@rufusrizzo78 I'll be honest I've not messed with it much at all since a few weeks after posting that video. I'm anxious to see if anyone out at defcon is playing with this stuff in the ham village this weekend.
Great bargain! How much to max out the nvme?
@@chucksgarage-us that is a good question. I'm still running the nvme it came with I should look at pricing and also make sure there aren't any size limits (besides physical! 😄) thx for watching!
Currently I'm watching this on a 14" Dell Latitude E6420 from 2011, that I got from the ShopGoodwill online store for less than $100. It's pretty beat up, and has an optical drive so it's not quite thin and light, but with Debian 12 (GNOME desktop / Wayland) on an SSD with an i7-2720QM, it absolutely flies - I am gobsmacked at the performance. RUclips videos are no problem on the 1440x900 screen. I just hope its 8 gigs of RAM stay usable for the foreseeable future, allegedly it can handle more even though the specs say 8 GB is the max.
Right on! Sounds like a good one ready to keep on trucking! Thanks for watching!
i have a thinkpad t450, i7 5600u
@@adithyan-exe That's a good one! I've had a few over the years. My most recent other ones were a t420 and t460.
you turned a beautiful machine into a gaudy mess