[ale] My iBook -- [for sale]

Fri Feb 11 18:55:23 EST 2005

As soon as my tax refund gets here, I'm going get either an iBook or the
powerbook, 

Which means I need to get rid of this thing.

HP zd7020US.  Purchased last March.
17" TFT Active Matrix
P4 2.8GHz
512M Ram
80G HDD
Stereo Harmon Kardon Speakers (built in)
NVIDIA Geforce FX5600 Go
CD/DVD player with CD/DVD+R
4USB, 1 Firewire, 1 SD/MS/Pro/MMC/SM Media card slot
1 PCMICIA Slot
Built-In Broadcomm 54G Wireless.  (Plus, I'll transfer the license over to
you for LinuxAnt's Driverloader if you wish)
Full size keyboard with numeric keypad.
Currently sportng XP Pro + Fedora Core 3
Crappy Targus bag that I've beat to hell and back
Included:  All software that came with it (XP Home, Quicken, Money, some HP
graphics utils)

I paid $2100 new for the laptop, and have taken pretty good care of it.

Here's the link to the laptop that I originally used to evaluate it:

http://hardware.gamespot.com/HP-Pavilion-Zd7020us-4757-O-1-3

The law of diminishing return and declining value has taken over, though,
and it looks like I can only ask around 1400. (eBay)

So...  I'm offering this piece for around $1350 obo.

It's for a good cause, so I can buy an Apple.  Help me out if you can.
Also, you contractor types...if you have a customer looking for a laptop,
this might be the bargain they're looking for.

Thanks!

Jerald M. Sheets jr.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
McKesson, Inc.
(404) 293-8762
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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Matthew
Brown
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 6:26 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] My iBook

I'd be interested to see how you work with The Gimp.  I have never "figured
it out".

Best Regards,

Matthew Brown
CorData, Inc. -- Linux solutions for business
o: 770-795-0089

On Feb 11, 2005, at 6:20 PM, Mark Wright wrote:

> I have a two year old Ti powerbook that I did not buy the extended 
> warranty for.  I think that all of them regardless of manufacturer are 
> too expensive.  I did use apples warranty though.
>
> My display developed a strange distortion about 6 month after 
> purchase.  I called to complain but the support told me it was 
> software.  It was very intermittent so I was not bothered.  Well after 
> a while the problem became more persistent.  Meanwhile one of the 
> hinges to the screen broke, still within a year of purchase.  I sent 
> it in for warranty replacement of the hinge and asked them to look at 
> the screen.  The hinge came back repaired and the screen distortion 
> problem came back too.  They couldn't handle too problems on one 
> ticket I guess.
>
> Well now the years warranty is over and I am still not sure that the 
> screen issue is not software.  I can usually fix it with a restart.
> All the while trying to draw a conclusion about software installed 
> that could be causing it.  As the problem grows worse, (more frequent) 
> I am all but sure it has nothing to do with software and is the video 
> ram.  Finally I got apples video ram diag to fail.  ( had been running 
> it without error when ever the problem would occur, hence apples 
> belief that the hardware was fine.) Basically I had to wait for the 
> problem to grow completely solid (make the PC unusable) to trouble 
> shoot it.  Now a year and a half later I call to lay out my case for a 
> warranty service.  All I had to do was tell them that I had reported 
> the problem within the warranty period and they accepted it as a 
> warranty repair. (once they looked it up)
>
> So I have had the hinge fixed and the MoBo replaced (that's where the 
> video ram lives.)  Under warranty.  The Combo drive has been acting up 
> and I will have to replace it one day on my own dime but for now it is 
> still burning iso's without complaint.
>
> Oh, and I do love the BSD under OS X's pretty face.  The main apps I 
> use on this machine are Open Office, Gimp, Mail and Safari.
>
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2005, at 10:27 AM, James Sumners wrote:
>
>> I am not looking to switch from Windows since I did that a long time 
>> ago but I am thinking about getting a Powerbook. My only concern 
>> right now is if I should purchase the AppleCare extended warranty. It 
>> is over twice the price of Dell's CompleteCare plan and doesn't do 
>> even half of what the Dell plan does. With the Dell plan you can get 
>> your laptop fixed free of charge no matter if you drop it or
"accidentally"
>> hit it with a hammer. All the AppleCare plan does is extend the 
>> 90-day support and 1-year limited warranty an extra two or three years.
>>
>> Does anyone else on the list have experience with Apple computers?
>> Should I even consider the AppleCare plan?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:10:32 -0500, Matthew Brown 
>> <matthew.brown at cordata.com> wrote:
>>> I have had my iBook G4 for almost a week.  It is my first Apple ever.
>>> I bought the bottom of the line G4 (12" screen) for ~$880 -- with 
>>> the AirPort card.  I bought it basically so I could have a solid an 
>>> supported *NIX laptop.  In short, it rocks!  It literally does 
>>> everything I could do before, but now I also have OpenBSD 
>>> underneath, allowing me tons of useful tools, many of which I've already
used.
>>>
>>> If you're looking for a switch off Windows and you still need things 
>>> like a good WYSIWYG web editor -- like Dreamweaver -- or Flash or 
>>> the Adobe tools, Apple is THE THING.
>>
>> --
>> James Sumners
>> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>>
>> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts 
>> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it 
>> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become 
>> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>>
>> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto) CH:D 59 
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