Yea you just need a yahoo email account, log into the freecycle yahoo! group page and look for your nearest town in the search bar, then when you find one close by, apply to join the group, and enter some reasons why you want to join (To stop things going to the landfill will get you in) and then in a day or 2, depending how lazy the mods are being, you will be accepted into the group

Then you just post WANTED: xxxxxxx (Hometown) and wait for replys

or look down the OFFER: xxxxxx (Their hometown) and reply to them


If your quick, and have a decent reason for wanting the item, you can get some really good stuff. Ive seen cars and 40" LCDs go on there

Personally I go for computers, and there is quite a few being offered, also managed to carpet my entire previous flat with brand new carpet from a house renevation

Mine was a Compaq cq60

My first laptop was a Toshiba Satellite T1960CS with track ball
486 dx2 50
4 mb kingston memory
Pantalla color 12" DSTN
HD 200 Mb.
MS Windows 95

Kevin Mitnick has the same laptop. I still has and it even works, but the battery died.

no way i got the same exept with a ati radion with 1 gig of mem to it self 3 gigs of ddr3 ram the hard drive i very its only 250 gigs the processer is amd athlon 2 p320 dual core at 2.10 ghz

My first laptop was a either a Macintosh Portable (luggable?) or an iBook G3 333MHz...It was orange...

Dell Inspiron 1300. Had one of those legendary "Vista Capable" logos on it.
With Intel 915 graphics meaning no WDDM driver!
That was the most annoying thing in the whole world!

I remember those labels, HP must really want to loose money by putting those labels on their computers, (DC7600?) when they only have a 40 gb. hard drive and 512 Mb. of Ram. I don't know anyone who would put those Vista on a computer with such low specs...

One of the reasons vista was hated, coz hardware that was vista capable was actually rubbish.

The 1st laptop i got is the one i got now.

Its an MSI CR420 (Asian Version)

My first laptop was .. I don't really remember the manufacturer.
It had a 540 MB built-in hard drive, 32 MB of ram (or was it 16? I think 16) a floppy drive and even a real track ball. It was "Designed for Windows 95" and ran Windows 95 B. (EDIT: nope, it even ran Windows 95 A since I had it on 30 floppies (if somebody is interested buying them?) and 95 B was on CD only because of IE and such) Then we found some old 380 MB hard drives for it. There was a fully configured Windows 3.11 installation on it with games and Office and stuff but I never "rescued" it because of no network. On ebay I then once bought a Xircom PCMCIA card for like 50€ and had 100 MBit/s ethernet but it was working on 9.x windows only. Also NT did not recognize them. Now it runs Windows 98 SE. You could even replace display panels. It was fusioned of three laptops of the same type. It even had a passive(!) controlled LCD. We replaced it with an active one from another one, placed a German - instead of Switzerland - keyboard in it and a new floppy drive. And I found a 180 MB PCMCIA hard drive.

The second one has 1,3 GB of Hard drive, 48 MB ram and a CD drive. Also "Designed for Windows 95" it now runs Me quite fine. I tried Windows NT 4 and 2000 but they did not recognize the Xircom network card unfortunately. I tried Windows XP but just of fun, you could even count the numbers of colors before the log in screen. Installing an operating system was quite a mess. All Windowses after 98 had no graphics driver for that "Chips and Tech Accelerator" thingie. Installing 2000 left you with an unbootable system (because of some BIOS fuzz). I first installed 98 and upgraded 2000 onto it, and even the graphics then worked! The same went with Windows Me.

And after almost 8 years with this laptop, now I am going to buy actually a "usable" one for christmas

My first laptop was the donated NEC (unknown model) laptop, but it is broken, with Windows 98 and 128MB ram.

I had an Compaq Evo N600c from august 2007 to like a June 2009.
Now I have the Acer Extensa 5630EZ, and the 486 laptop , AST Ascentia N800.

None yet, i was thinking about buying HP Compaq Presario CQ61-330EM. See specs here.

Not bad, how much is the laptop anyway? By the way, gotta like the OS that will come with it, FreeDOS!

It was for 499€ in an exclusive offer in some super expensive computer store in Slovenia (Big Bang is what they call it). But generally the price varies from 400-600 €. If I would buy it i would put my pirate Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on it. But that's not gonna happend. Maybe someday, but not in the near future.

My first laptop was a Rein 300 SL or something like that.
It had a 286 and a red mono EGA screen.
Got it very cheap,I could not say no.
The next was a Compaq Contura Aero subnotebook using a 486.

[quote="ThePro"]My first and current laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1525

I bought it exactly 2 days before windows 7 came out.. and it was shipped with Vista home basic D:[/quote]

^ That's why it fails so hard, my friend.

My first and current laptop is a Dell <insert unintelligible model number that I forgot here>.

I bought it exactly 5 days before Windows Vista came out... and it was shipped with Nothing version Nothing D:

(I did type the quote tags correctly, but they don't wanna work now. Stupid time.)

Same.

Does Macintosh Portable count as a laptop?
Otherwise it was a PowerBook 145B.

Had an old black and white screened-Windows 3.1 laptop as my first, but probably the most notable one was my Toshiba Satellite 2540CDS. Came with Windows Me and 96mb of RAM, and had a 333Mhz processor, 4GB hard drive, CD drive (now malfunctioning ) and some obscure S3 graphics card. Upgraded the OS to Windows XP Professional SP1 and I still use it to this day. Runs Microsoft Word 2003 like a beast.

Probably a S3 Trio card which was used by many OEMs in their computers.

Still have it.

Sempron 2.0 GHz ;
1024 MB DDR400 ;
ATi x200 ;
40GB HD;

My first decent laptop was a Dell Insperon 1300.
Specs:

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise converted to Workstation
Pentium M 1.8Ghz overclocked to 2.4Ghz stable with wire mod
Artic silver on stock cooler.
2GB of DDR2 RAM upgraded from 512 MB
80GB PATA HD
DVD burner
Good 6 cell battery (upgraded from original owner from 4 cell)
15" screen

I miss it, got it at thrift store for 60 euros, upgraded the ram installed fresh windows, and it was able to play HL2, all the 190's games, GTA3 and Vice City, RTCW, N-64 ROMS.

The only snag was that it had a soundcard which crackled, the maker went out of business and so there were no new drivers with fixes. Guys who had this laptop model were [censored]. I sold it off while it was still worth cash, wish I hadn't because I would have added a USB Sound Blaster XI card. Damn! Now I am having trouble getting a decent laptop like it without spending alot of dough.

I used a dell Inspiron 1300 for a while, sound was fine for me. Sigmatel or something.

My first and still well working laptop is Acer Aspire 3613LC. Unfortunately, unlike WLC, without wi-fi