I'll head up there tomorrow and probably bag the Sharp and one of the 2 Toshibas (both are exactly the same model, spec). One of them looks like it's already been pulled apart a little so I may give that one a miss.
Still working fine, battery seems to be pretty strong and hardly used, but it's shutting down at 70%. The BIOS has a battery calibration tool so it may be a simple process of using that.
Funnily enough it has an ethernet jack that was covered over. The cover slid out when I serviced it last, but connecting an ethernet cable to it does seemingly nothing. So I guess it's not ethernet enabled which is a little strange considering it's fairly recent.
Only other grapple is that the system should be able to do 1024x768 and the graphics card is well capable of it, but the LCD panel doesn't seem to. I can set it to 1024x768 but the actual display will be outside of the LCD's viewable region, although it can be used by moving the mouse to the edges of the viewable area so the display "scrolls". I think there has to be a way to fix it, somehow, but I can't work it out.
It looks fantastic otherwise. No scratches or scuffs, a missing key that still works anyway... it's actually a very nice system. Still wondering if I should install Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PC's now that the BIOS update is in place, just so it has a more recent operating system with a little more capability.
Still working fine, battery seems to be pretty strong and hardly used, but it's shutting down at 70%. The BIOS has a battery calibration tool so it may be a simple process of using that.
Funnily enough it has an ethernet jack that was covered over. The cover slid out when I serviced it last, but connecting an ethernet cable to it does seemingly nothing. So I guess it's not ethernet enabled which is a little strange considering it's fairly recent.
Only other grapple is that the system should be able to do 1024x768 and the graphics card is well capable of it, but the LCD panel doesn't seem to. I can set it to 1024x768 but the actual display will be outside of the LCD's viewable region, although it can be used by moving the mouse to the edges of the viewable area so the display "scrolls". I think there has to be a way to fix it, somehow, but I can't work it out.
It looks fantastic otherwise. No scratches or scuffs, a missing key that still works anyway... it's actually a very nice system. Still wondering if I should install Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PC's now that the BIOS update is in place, just so it has a more recent operating system with a little more capability.