Looked like it had took a shunt on one corner, hence the broken lid. 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, has a webcam but no HDMI. This works, but needs a new lid – sadly these are quite rare so a donor may be sourced for this. A similar model Acer Aspire One that looked like it’d been run over was bought for £3 but gave up only a keyboard and 1GB of RAM. Plastics will cost me £12, and if I can get a screen that should be around £10. Also will need to source a charger, as these take the smaller Acer-style plug. No hard drive (usually these take a 250GB, of which I have a couple in!), 1GB RAM, Atom N570. Working but with a damaged screen and slightly damaged casing. No RAM, no hard drive, no sign of life, no battery and a cracked screen. One with an intact chassis but still a cracked LCD is available for around £15. A donor will be the best route to go down for this. Can’t test very well at the moment because due to the unique way in which Sony makes their laptops, you cannot change to the external display until after POST, and by default it will POST to the laptop LCD. Would potentially be worth sourcing a new motherboard for. Currently sat in my “one day…” pile.ĭestroyed casing and smashed screen, but boots. Powers on if pressure applied to the northbridge, otherwise nope. Had a hard drive in it but only a 60GB – removed it. I’m tempted to get the remote for £12.99, but seeing as I’m leaving this in the kitchen at home, a remote isn’t really necessary.Ĭomplete except for RAM and keyboard. The Hub this PSU belonged to was a freebie and ditched long ago. Got it with no power supply, tested it with one from a switch I had lying around and it works fine! Was going to stump up the £12.99 Pure wanted for a new power supply, and then I found a suitable one while going through a drawer!įor reference – a power supply from a version 1 BT Home Hub will fit these and work fine! The Pure takes a 9v 1.5a PSU like a lot of DAB radios I believe – The Home Hub PSU for the version 1 at least is 9v 2a and the right connector and polarity for the Pure. This is a smart little thing – black brushed aluminium, with DAB and FM radio, an aux port, a USB port for charging devices, and a CD player too. Two Dell chargers were also acquired for £2.

Also purchased was a large bag of chargers and cloverleaf cables for £10 – most of these are your standard 19v 3.42a that fit most laptops other than Acers, but I got a 20v 3.25a for the Pi 2515 prior to selling it and a 20v 2a netbook charger too. I’ve started going to auctions – look out for a post on that soon!Īnd onto purchases! These aren’t really in any order. So what does that leave me with? I still have the HP dm3, Inspiron 1525, Dell D430, HP 6510b (added bonus – the battery I bought that didn’t fit the 6930p fits this), HP G62, Acer 5535 and Dell D510.

Now this needs a battery, HDD and caddy, lid and bezel. A donor was purchased for the Inspiron 1525 at £9 – this donated a caddy, palmrest, keyboard, screen supports, hinges, DVD drive, hinge cover, screws and other electrical components.The Optiplex GX270 has packed up and been taken to the tip, sans HDD and DVD drive.The Inspiron 6400, Toshiba A60, EiSystem 3086, the two ThinkPads and the Emachines M5118 went for £12 (100GB hard drive of the Dell was kept).Toshiba C50D sold for £80, a profit of £35 (lid had to be replaced due to screw mount failure).The BT phones from the southern boot were sold for £3, break even (but I did get a year’s use out of them!).Some of the RAM and drives from previous lots that was either faulty or untested sold for a total of £22 – both lots cost £50.Fujitsu Pi2515 sold for £35, owed £20 + £2 for a charger, so £13 profit.I’ve been behind for a few weeks due to other things going off at home too, so sorry! I will get some more videos uploaded soon. Warning – this is going to be a long one, and I haven’t really had time to take pictures – I’ve just started a new job and this is my excuse.

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