Dumb luck strikes again, found a Dell Inspiron 1100 in the trash

[Slacker]

I took a short vacation to central N.Y. ~ finger lakes region to visit relatives, on sunday my son wanted to find a book store and while driving around we saw a used textbook shop, as we were walking up to the door I saw a pile of boxes and trash, weird stuff like a 4 foot tall wine bottle and manikin parts :shocked:

One box caught my eye, I saw the edge of a laptop with an empty bay(later found out it was a battery bay)

I thought "cool, a busted laptop" at the very least it would be something to screw around with, and maybe some good parts.

I opened it up expecting to see a broken screen, it was filthy but not broken so I took it back to where we were staying and looked it over, it had no battery and no power brick so I couldnt start it, I pulled all the carts and found a 30gig hd, 2x128mb ddr266mhz, celeron 2.ghz and a dvd/rw all in good shape.

I took the cooling fan out and pulled massive chunks of lint out of the cooler and hoped that maybe some idiot threw it away cause it wouldnt run, but I couldnt try it yet.

Yesterday my brother in law borrowed a brick from his work and when I got back to their place last night the thing was sitting on the table, running fine

It had a terrifying picture of ludichris for wallpaper and 15gigs of various pop rap, and limewire was installed, found two infected files with a w32 worm (nugache) and 5gigs of p-ron...

I cleared out a bunch of crap, all the mp3 and docs , temp internet/history crap, didnt have time to delete the pron, that may take a while...

There are about 8 keys on the keyboard that dont work but the on screen keyboard works well enough for now.


all I need is a battery and/or a power brick, maybe a keyboard, and a gig of cheap memory and I got a nice little knockaround laptop.


Cliffs.....

1: found laptop in trash
2: cleaned it, got it working.
3: ???
4: Profit!

 

[EKKC]

prove me wrong but i think taking from residential/commercial trash is illegal, unless it was labeled "free stuff"

 

[DivideBYZero]

Nice!

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: EKKC
prove me wrong but i think taking from residential/commercial trash is illegal, unless it was labeled "free stuff"

Kill joy.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Originally posted by: Slacker
I took a short vacation to central N.Y. ~ finger lakes region to visit relatives, on sunday my son wanted to find a book store and while driving around we saw a used textbook shop, as we were walking up to the door I saw a pile of boxes and trash, weird stuff like a 4 foot tall wine bottle and manikin parts :shocked:

One box caught my eye, I saw the edge of a laptop with an empty bay(later found out it was a battery bay)

I thought "cool, a busted laptop" at the very least it would be something to screw around with, and maybe some good parts.

I opened it up expecting to see a broken screen, it was filthy but not broken so I took it back to where we were staying and looked it over, it had no battery and no power brick so I couldnt start it, I pulled all the carts and found a 30gig hd, 2x128mb ddr266mhz, celeron 2.ghz and a dvd/rw all in good shape.

I took the cooling fan out and pulled massive chunks of lint out of the cooler and hoped that maybe some idiot threw it away cause it wouldnt run, but I couldnt try it yet.

Yesterday my brother in law borrowed a brick from his work and when I got back to their place last night the thing was sitting on the table, running fine

It had a terrifying picture of ludichris for wallpaper and 15gigs of various pop rap, and limewire was installed, found two infected files with a w32 worm (nugache) and 5gigs of p-ron...

I cleared out a bunch of crap, all the mp3 and docs , temp internet/history crap, didnt have time to delete the pron, that may take a while...

There are about 8 keys on the keyboard that done work but the on screen keyboard work well enough for now.


all I need is a battery and/or a power brick, maybe a keyboard, and a gig of cheap memory and I got a nice little knockaround laptop.


Cliffs.....

1: found laptop in trash
2: cleaned it, got it working.
3: ???
4: Profit!

Suuuuuuuure! You know you won't delete it.

 

[jpeyton]

Looks like a good dedicated server laptop. Attach it to some external storage and serve some media.

 

[bowdenball]

the law in my state is that trash at curbside is considered abadoned property and is free for the taking

 

[noagname]

good job

 

[NiteWulf]

Originally posted by: EKKC
prove me wrong but i think taking from residential/commercial trash is illegal, unless it was labeled "free stuff"

Varies by municipality

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: EKKC
prove me wrong but i think taking from residential/commercial trash is illegal, unless it was labeled "free stuff"

Kill joy.

i'm just saying.
i have nothing against it.

my friend found an xbox 360 with the drive tray ripped out, he later got a red light on his own console, i did the drive transplant for him, and the garbage 360 works like a charm now (but banned now, i modded the firmware for him as well)

 

[S Freud]

Nice find.:thumbsup:

I never find things like that

 

[Rumpltzer]

I found a video tape inside a rental cabin once while I was visiting my relatives up in Central N.Y. A bunch of my friends and I watched it... and then people started dying.

Good luck!

 

[Slacker]

Originally posted by: EKKC
prove me wrong but i think taking from residential/commercial trash is illegal, unless it was labeled "free stuff"

I didnt consider the legality, never have, if someone abandons stuff at the curb I assume they put it there so someone would come and take it away.

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: Slacker

Originally posted by: EKKC
prove me wrong but i think taking from residential/commercial trash is illegal, unless it was labeled "free stuff"

I didnt consider the legality, never have, if someone abandons stuff at the curb I assume they put it there so someone would come and take it away.

say a bike is on the curbside, not locked to any poles, is it free for the taking?

don't get me wrong, i completely agree with you, i am just saying it may be illegal, and exercise caution when you do it. (as in dont do it in front of cops)

 

[WHAMPOM]

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: Slacker

Originally posted by: EKKC
prove me wrong but i think taking from residential/commercial trash is illegal, unless it was labeled "free stuff"

I didnt consider the legality, never have, if someone abandons stuff at the curb I assume they put it there so someone would come and take it away.

say a bike is on the curbside, not locked to any poles, is it free for the taking?

don't get me wrong, i completely agree with you, i am just saying it may be illegal, and exercise caution when you do it. (as in dont do it in front of cops)

Strawman much? Garbage on the curb is fair game. Put a bike on the pile and it is free too.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Originally posted by: EKKC
prove me wrong but i think taking from residential/commercial trash is illegal, unless it was labeled "free stuff"

You're thinking "GARAGE SALE" there buddy. The free stuff box> the junk that did not sell.

 

[LS20]

whats funny is that for the price of oem brick, battery, keyboard, and some memory.. you might be able to get a new laptop for cheaper

 

[Smartazz]

I guess "one man's trash is another man's treasure".

 

[slackerinabox]

Originally posted by: EKKC
prove me wrong but i think taking from residential/commercial trash is illegal, unless it was labeled "free stuff"

wow.. The dorks that hang out here are terrifying at times...

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: bowdenball
the law in my state is that trash at curbside is considered abandoned property and is free for the taking

I'd expect it to be that way anywhere, but then government need not make sense. I figure that once something is put out for the trash, the owner has decided that said material is of no further value. Why place ownership on something valueless?

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
I found a video tape inside a rental cabin once while I was visiting my relatives up in Central N.Y. A bunch of my friends and I watched it... and then people started dying.

Good luck!

rofl

 

[Slacker]

Originally posted by: LS20
whats funny is that for the price of oem brick, battery, keyboard, and some memory.. you might be able to get a new laptop for cheaper

$25.00 shipped for a keyboard
$25.00 shipped for a brick
$49.00 shipped for a battery
$50.00 shipped for a gig o ram

I think I am going to go ahead and get all of these.

 

[ultimatebob]

Interesting story, but it was missing some important details!

What kind of pr0n was on it, anyway?

 

[Slacker]

Got a 6500mah battery for $30.00 shipped, manually sniped that one in the last ten seconds

Got the brick for $29.00 new oem dell piece

Got the keyboard for $25.00 shipped

Still looking for the best deal on ram, looks like a gig of ddr 333 is around $70.00 shipped, ddr2 is cheaper but wont work in the 1100, anyone know if the 1100 can take 2 1gb sodimms?