Meet the HP 2510p.
It's an old piece of junk with a C2D running at a whopping 1.2Ghz. One of the lamps in the screen is broken, so the backlight is extremely uneven. The reason I'm keeping it is because it has one of the best keyboards I have ever used, better even than almost all the desktop keyboards I've used. The key travel is perfect, it is rigid like a victorian nun and the material is heavenly. And the build quality is excellent and it has that magnesium stuff instead of aluminium (which is totally overrated) so it feels nice to handle overall. This is an old laptop which have been heavily used. Note how despite this pristine the keyboard looks. So i use it as a typewriter. It is small and the fan stays passive during low loads, so it's quiet too.
Now meet the piece of crap that ruined the whole thing:
ATA drive. The last time I ran HDTune on it the minimum transfer rate was 1.8MB/s. It had a whole bunch of faulty sectors. It sounds exactly like a meat grinder. (however, I did run HDTune on MiniXP now and it mysteriously says it has no faulty sectors and the transfer rate is 12.3-22.4MB/s, but it's still slow as Slowpoke in live use). It is miserable in any case.
So, I got a replacement, and the point of this pointless post.
A zif-msata-adapter and a SK Hynix SC210 256GB SSD. About €30 for both of them, and the machine is flying now, and entirely noiseless. Since it's PATA sumethin it's pretty slow, but HDTune says it does 75MB/s and that's way more for my needs, and in any case it has that sweet 0.1ms access time. Now I just need a decent battery. And possibly a LED screen, which does exist, but they tend to be on the expensive side and anyway there are now some rather steep fees to import to Sweden and they're much harder on getting their taxes so a $30 screen would end up costing me about $50.
The OS is Lubuntu 16.04 btw.
Now if I just had something to write. Which I do but hey is that a duck I need a drink and I can write tomorrow anyway , kthanx byeee
Would anyone know of any where I might be able to grab a replacement LCD poster at all?? The guy who sold the board to me is giving me a part refund since this one doesn't work (most of the display is just lines, which somewhat hinder the screen to see what it says....
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