[kwlug-disc] Laptop Revival Sessions?

[Ron Singh]

Oops! Sorry, I sent the previous from my computer-y email address.

Hmm, shame to hear about the HDDs running off to hide in some dark corner.


I have a 160G and a 750G SATA HDD, bot a re 5400RPM, 8M Cache slowboats,
but still useful with a thin Linux install.

I likely have a 320G 7200RPM unit too, but I would have to look at my
Guelph loc to verify.

These 2/3 drives are free to the cause.
I also have an X61 and an X61T(ablet), both have at least 2G RAM and at
least a 120G HDD, both would run Ubuntu/Debian/Whatever with a slim DE like
Xfce quite decently.  Those are also free to the cause.

--
​ Continuing on, I would ​be interested in help in any way I can, grunt
work's my thing but am open to whatever is needed.

Thanks,

Ron Singh


On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 10:23 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

>
> Here is the way they used to work: we would come in an refurbish
> laptops that were donated to Computer Recycling. Then Charles would
> make these laptops available for sale. It was not a "put in volunteer
> hours and get a free laptop" thing.
>
> The last time we were doing this the best laptops were about Core 2
> Duos. Maybe that is completely outdated now.
>
> To answer Bob's question: I still have access to the CR space for now.
> The main barriers have been (a) my availability and energy when I was
> working, (b) a paucity of SATA drives (many of them mysteriously
> disappeared, and nobody knows where), (c) Charles and his crew have
> taken up some laptop refurbishment on their own and (d) there were
> some laptop thefts, which caused some consternation in the shop.
>
> I am not opposed to running events again, but it would probably be
> during those warmer months. I will have to check in with Charles to
> see what he thinks, though, and to see whether there are enough spare
> SATA drives to actually run the event.
>
> - Paul
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 11:42:50PM +0000, Chamunks wrote:
> > How do these revival sessions work for those of us who aren't enlightened
> > I'm in the "market" for a laptop that I can use that isn't completely
> > outdated but also not overpowered I just want something simple and
> wouldn't
> > totally mind committing a few hours to the cause.
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 6:54 PM Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
> >
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> > > Speaking of cheap laptops in another thread, will we be having any
> > > more Laptop Revival Sessions, now that the logistics of access to
> > > Computer Recycling are somewhat more complicated?
> > >
> > > It's the kind of thing I prefer to do in cold weather months, which
> > > will soon be behind us.
> > >
> > > - --Bob.
>
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