After my X40 bit the dust, I bought an X61. While the X61 is faster, linux compatibility is dreadful, and the battery life - at under two hours - is a joke.
As a result, I'd like to fix my X40 and sell off my X61, and maybe put the extra money into a desktop PC. (The total on mine came out to over $1,800 after tax - anyone know what I can get for it?).
After trawling eBay for weeks, I managed to find a motherboard for $165 after shipping...but it turned out to be the Low Voltage Pentium-M CPU, not the Ultra Low Voltage as stated on the auction, which results in roughly half the battery life. As a result, I'm shipping it back.
Someone else is listing a brand-new X40 board, for a wallet-slamming $270. On the other hand, various services (advertising, curiously enough, through eBay) say they'll do it for $150.
So, what should I do?
As a result, I'd like to fix my X40 and sell off my X61, and maybe put the extra money into a desktop PC. (The total on mine came out to over $1,800 after tax - anyone know what I can get for it?).
After trawling eBay for weeks, I managed to find a motherboard for $165 after shipping...but it turned out to be the Low Voltage Pentium-M CPU, not the Ultra Low Voltage as stated on the auction, which results in roughly half the battery life. As a result, I'm shipping it back.
Someone else is listing a brand-new X40 board, for a wallet-slamming $270. On the other hand, various services (advertising, curiously enough, through eBay) say they'll do it for $150.
So, what should I do?
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