last thanksgiving I was given a couple toshiba laptops by my uncle, he said neither one powered up... so i took them home, and pretty much let them sit there until a week or so ago (busy w/ other things at the time) started taking bits off one of them in the mean time (ram here, a hd there, etc..)
finally got around to actually testing it, no power, examine power jack, resolder connections, still no power, test w/ meter, a trace was broken on the circuit board... make a jumper wire, plug in, IT LIVES!!! so I got a Satellite A75 (3.06 P4 w/HT, 512mb ram (soon to be 1.5G) and a 20GB ( the original 60 got transplanted to another machine) for pretty much free
the new one is another satellite, bought from a classmate for $30 since "i can't get it to load windows 7"...all i had to do was put in my usb drive w/ linux and it loaded right up turns out it can also be upgraded 
(originally a celeron 530M, now a 1.6Ghz Core 2 Duo) (even the battery is good!) had 2.5gb of ram (soon to be 4gb) and a 160GB Hard drive...
finally got around to actually testing it, no power, examine power jack, resolder connections, still no power, test w/ meter, a trace was broken on the circuit board... make a jumper wire, plug in, IT LIVES!!! so I got a Satellite A75 (3.06 P4 w/HT, 512mb ram (soon to be 1.5G) and a 20GB ( the original 60 got transplanted to another machine) for pretty much free
the new one is another satellite, bought from a classmate for $30 since "i can't get it to load windows 7"...all i had to do was put in my usb drive w/ linux and it loaded right up
turns out it can also be upgraded (originally a celeron 530M, now a 1.6Ghz Core 2 Duo) (even the battery is good!) had 2.5gb of ram (soon to be 4gb) and a 160GB Hard drive...