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		   THE STORY OF MY HP NX6325 NOTEBOOK
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  Let me tell you  a story about a laptop 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:

  | CPU | AMD Sempron Processor 3500+ @1.8GHz |
  | GPU | AMD/ATI Radeon Xpress 200M          |
  | MEM | 512 MB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM           |
  | HDD | 60GB @ 5400 rpm                     |

  (Look in the files directory for a current photo[1])

  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 sceptically. 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 lay already  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 I  guess I'll use this thing till the  end of times or
  at least until the silicon  is completly burned out. Whichever comes
  first.



Footnotes
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[1] gopher://tilde.club/1/~sulaco/files -> hp_nx6325.jpg