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Let me tell you a story about laptop a I bought in 2006. It was my first year at university and I was in dire need of such a device. Notebook prices came down drastically at the time and I bought my HP compaq nx6325 for about 470 Euros. Here are some specs:
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I upgraded the RAM to 2GB, installed Windows XP on it and then used it for three years as my main machine. Come 2009 I bought a new "gaming notebook" and tried to get rid of this old piece of junk. I opened an ebay auction and it sold for 240 Euros. I was really astonished someone would give me that much money for such an old device. Turns out the supposed buyers was an ameritard whose account got hacked so the auction got canceled.
After all this bullshit I printed some flyers advertising my HP for 100 Euros and posted them to bill-boards at university and in my appartment-building. A few days later a couple came and examined my old laptop rather sceptical. Nevertheless they said they would buy it but they would first have to go back to their appartment to get the money. Five minutes later they call and tell my they don't want it after all. Ok, so it now it seems I won't get rid of this fucker.
Over the years I used the HP as a backup machine running various linux distros. It was abused hard, fell to the floor, got beaten up but it survived it all. In 2019 the hard disk gave up so I decived to finally throw this thing away. It already lay on the trash pile when in the last moment I decided to buy a new HDD and only throw away the completly dead battery. Rescued again!
Now, in 2021 I still use this thing daily. It's too slow to run a browser but not too slow for text editing, watching videos and streams and to explore the gopher space. Still going strong after all these years while my fancy "gaming laptop" has long since bit the dust. So let me tell you one thing: I will love and use this thing till the end of times or at least until the silicon is completly burned out. Whichever comes first.
