freecomputer20090218
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freecomputer20090218
The bulk of this machine comes courtesy of Trinity via the FreecycleTO community. The machine was in pretty good shape, but still a bit dusty -- I have to blow out the innards this weekend. The CD-ROM drive was dead, so again I pulled from the spares that Narender supplied. The machine comes with an integrated Ethernet port, but had a spare network card installed, which I promptly pilfered for another machine I will be working on.
The machine is probably the fastest one I have recovered, so I decided to go with Kubuntu, since the KDE GUI is a little bit more demanding of system resources. It still performs fast though. My youngest commented that the machine runs much faster than her W2K machine that has more hardware horsepower. (I think I have some other work to do now.) The machine is suitable for office applications, as well as general internet surfing, email and even browsing videos on YouTube. It works well for everyday use.
Configuration of freecomputer20090218:
Updated: Feb. 28, 2009
The machine was dropped of last night to Harold, who will be using it at his church or donating it to one of the patrons of the his church.
freecomputer20090218
The bulk of this machine comes courtesy of Trinity via the FreecycleTO community. The machine was in pretty good shape, but still a bit dusty -- I have to blow out the innards this weekend. The CD-ROM drive was dead, so again I pulled from the spares that Narender supplied. The machine comes with an integrated Ethernet port, but had a spare network card installed, which I promptly pilfered for another machine I will be working on.
The machine is probably the fastest one I have recovered, so I decided to go with Kubuntu, since the KDE GUI is a little bit more demanding of system resources. It still performs fast though. My youngest commented that the machine runs much faster than her W2K machine that has more hardware horsepower. (I think I have some other work to do now.) The machine is suitable for office applications, as well as general internet surfing, email and even browsing videos on YouTube. It works well for everyday use.
Configuration of freecomputer20090218:
- emachines T1440, S/N: QLT25 B00 00617
- Intel Celeron 1.4GHz Processor, 384MB RAM (2 slots, both occupied)
- Video: Integrated Intel 82810E
- Disk: Seagate ST340810A 40GB
- 1.44 Floppy Drive
- Modem: Conexant SoftK56
- Network: Integrated Intel PRO/100S Ethernet
- Audio: Integrated SoundMAX
- Optical Drive: NEC DVD-ROM 11E1955T211
- USB: Intel 82801AA Controller, with 4 ports -- 2 are front accessible
- Monitor: TBD
- User: freecomputers
- Password: Dabydeen
Updated: Feb. 28, 2009
The machine was dropped of last night to Harold, who will be using it at his church or donating it to one of the patrons of the his church.
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