Found my first laptop....
In (almost) all of its glory.
A Compaq Presario 12XL300.
I'd have to say, it's ahead of its time.
Maintenance on everything (save the motherboard itself) is a BREEZE!
It supports 66/100/133MHz procys on the ORIGINAL BIOS!
Yep. That's a 1GHz procy.
It's showing its age....
What my plans are, are to bring this back to life and install Android on it.
Android is the easy part; getting it refurbished, however, is gonna be a pretty penny.
The sad part is? This 10-year-old laptop has better performance than that Sylvania "netbook".
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Mod it! Mod it! Mod it! :banana::banana::banana:
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Already have (somewhat):
One of the few things that it didn't have was built-in WiFi :(
Thankfully, I had an HP mPCI WiFi card :)
What I am hoping to do is install another (non-Compaq) BIOS onto it, hopefully unlocking features.
7.5*140, anyone?????
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I also forgot to mention, the 1GHz wasn't the original procy.
I still have the 600MHz 66Mhz FSB Celery.
The 9.0 multiplier on such a processor amazes me, though.
I LOOOVE that it is a matte display; I hate that it's only 800*600.
Still amazed that they put in a DESKTOP socket in a LAPTOP! When was the last time you saw a LEVER in a laptop's procy socket???