[LUNA] recycle old laptop

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sat Jan 3 11:51:20 CST 2015


On 01/03/15 11:20, Allen Krell wrote:
> Tag says Presario v5000.   cat /proc/cpuinfo shows cpu family 15, model 44,
> Mobile AMD Sempron 3300+, 128kb cache.   I think it is a single core 2Ghz
> processor.
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:19 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On 01/03/15 10:53, Allen Krell wrote:
>>
>>> I have a 2005/2006 era HP compaq presario laptop I would be willing to
>>> give
>>> to a good Linux home.   It has a AMD Sempron 3300+ with 640 MB memory. I
>>> have had several lightweight distros on it.  It is currently running
>>> crunchbang linux but I need to wipe it before I give it away.
>>>
>>> Everything works, but of course the battery is on its last legs.
>>>
>>> I could you meet you somewhere in Huntsville, or you could stop by my home
>>> in NE huntsville (near 5 points).
>>>
>>>
>>> Allen
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>> What model, CQ40, CQ45, etc. ? BTW, I know exactly nothing about laptops,
>> but I would like to dip a toe in, will run either Linux or *BSD :-) ....
>> Happy new year ....
>>
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What is the make/model of the battery (that's what I was trying to 
figure out), I googled up some references to batteries for Compaq 
Presario laptops, but they are model CQ40, CQ45, etc., nothing called 
v5000 ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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