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IBM X21

  • 18-06-2008 6:17pm
    #1
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭


    Ancient Laptop....

    There's a good chance my job will be dumping these soon enough, so I'll be able to pick one up pretty cheap..as in 10-50 euro. But, the problem is, being X21'a, they've feck all without the media slice.

    If I want anything useable, I'll have to buy an express card.

    Anyway, I was thinking:

    Buy...
    USB card
    SSD disk drive
    Install Xubuntu
    ?????
    Profit!

    Wondering whether it would be wort bothering, or should order a new eePC. X21 looks like it prety much matches the eePC on everything but RAM... and it's an IBM....

    At the very least, I'll end up with something cheap and strong and that will last a while. I just want something I can mess around with without fear of ruining a 1500 quid laptop...And something that I can just throw in my backpack, drop, and generally misuse and still have it humming along.

    Carrying my XPS around all day, I'm terrified it'll break somehow and that 1500 euro will just swirld down the drain.


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Well if it's only between 10 and 50 quid, sure you may aswell try it out. But for a road ready machine the eee is great. Ssd, i get very good battery life, wifi, usb ports and sd card reader, and XP if you want it. I use my eee 701 every day and wonder how i lived without it, really brilliant machine. But with the dell eee killer supposedly coming out soon, (there's pictures on the web) and eee pcs fitted with the intel atom processor it might be worth your while waiting to how things look come September.


  • #3
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,957 ✭✭✭trout


    They were excellent laptops in their day ... their day was 6 or 7 years ago though.

    Any laptops of this vintage are likely to have degraded batteries ... I don't know if you can still get replacements at this stage, especially since the IBM / Lenovo split.

    You might have to look at aftermarket spares, or eBay for replacement parts ... which can be a mixed bag.

    Having said that ... if you have the chance, it's gotta be worth trying, if only for the bragging rights.

    Are you sure a laptop of that vintage will control an SSD Drive ?

    If you go ahead with it - good luck, and let us know what happens :)


  • #4
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭Dartz


    I have no idea... but it has a 20Gig HDD...

    It may seem out of date, but I was using a Toshiba Satellite of similar vintage up until recently, and Gentoo should make a good go of running on it.


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