u/NormalSoftware4237

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This is a Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7 from circa 2007, yes it is an ultraportable laptop, but unlike modern light laptops, the build quality has balls, considering even the battery is still running with exceptional health (runtime is around 6-7 hours at 92% original capacity), it‘s safe to say this laptop is legendary.

Meanwhile, I know someone and they have an acer aspire with an i5 8th gen and the battery is completely flat despite not even being 10 years old, and this is nearly 20 years old with a working battery. She runs Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC (and further debloated) like a charm, only using 500-700MB and 1-2% of the Intel Core 2 Duo L7800 processor on idle.

It needs a big top down restoration (the B key is broken it doesn’t sit flush, the entire top half has heavy damage as seen in the bezel and the lid and there is a pressure spot on the screen, but it is nearly unnoticeable because the background is dark), don’t worry, i’m trying to speak to a seller for an entire top half and a new B key, i will repaste it, rebuild the CMOS battery, clean the fans and clean the chassis. So it runs like it went straight out of the Japan factory.

This is one of my favorites in my collection, the design is just so sleek and cool for 2007, it is very durable, the keyboard is awesome. It’s like a ThinkPad X61 on steroids.

I also need a more stable Linux distro because Q4OS is shit

also, for anyone who's asking, the Aspire 5670 came out January 7, 2006, so it is 20.5 years old by now. It‘s not against the rules.

last November, i got this iBook G4 14 inch (a Late 2004 model) for €100 off of Marketplace, it was kernel panicking and had 3 keys that wouldn’t want to go in and the “N“ key is disintegrated from use. It included the power adapter (which has some damage on the tip but i will do less aggressive insulation and then do white shrink wrap on top of it and it’ll look like and work like its undamaged) and the original installation DVDs

it’s in remarkably good, near-new condition besides the keycaps though, some are also slightly yellowed so it looks irregular (and the three missing rubber feet also put it down but i’ll fix that just like the keycaps), the kernel panic was the wifi card being shorted and putting down the entire system. I removed it and it runs fine without wifi.

It had 768 MB of DDR1 (256 soldered + 512 expansion), but i had a dead, destroyed clevo with a 1 GB DDR1 stick so i put it in and despite the higher frequency, it works stably. Now it has 1.25 GB of DDR1 (maxed out)

I will order a new aftermarket battery if i find one for under 50 euros shipped (because it’s dead), a donor iBook G4 (to steal the keycaps and wifi card from) and if the donor doesn’t have 3 or 4 rubber feet i will order some sugru to form new ones.

I would order an IDE to mSATA adapter to add an SSD and repaste the thing, but it requires a grueling teardown, and on a near-new laptop it’s just not worth the hassle and potential of breaking something, then i’ll replace it when the HDD fails (which it is S.M.A.R.T Verified) and repaste on the way.

Heard its a uniwill from late 2002 but uncertain, battery still holds a charge and from what i know it has a desktop Pentium 4, only 35 euros

I honestly think its very good, the new aero aesthetic Microsoft made is top notch, it is a bit resource intensive though

This laptop is a model Acer Aspire 5670, I really like it. The webcam rotates 225 degrees and unlike the majority of devices i have in my collection, this has a dedicated graphics card (and this is a good one for 2006 too).

I’m running Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit) Service Pack 2, fully activated and aero is at its full. All drivers are included too. It is a very nice retro computing laptop, will use it to play old games from the 2000’s once i get it a new battery (as this one is currently flat).

Ironically, it is running so good yet it is a “Vista Capable” laptop from Early 2006, those were infamous to be barely capable, full of lag, several minute boot times, and 1 gig (or sometimes half a gig) of RAM. Mine is maxed out with upgrades besides the CPU (i didn’t manage to upgrade it to a Core 2 Duo so i will likely buy a higher spec Core Duo from AliExpress to avoid some architectural shit) and the battery as said, is flat.

Full specs:

Core Duo T2250

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

4 GB DDR2-667 (underclocked to 533 MHz due to the CPU having a shitty FSB)

250 GB Crucial MX500 SSD

Upgraded WiFi Card (Intel 4965AGN from a wrecked toshiba satellite A200)

I repasted everything too and changed the CMOS battery (well, i didn‘t change it but rather, the legend of a previous owner changed the CMOS battery socket location to the bottom door and replaced it before i traded some junk for this 5670), so the thermals and BIOS settings are both sorted too.

Actually in this case, Windows 7 was the unstable one, as the GPU drivers did not want to install at all, so it was shitty and stretched.