Decent Laptop good for Tuning and Desktop Graphics Card

[Fastbird]

Laptop is a Dell 600M that I bought in 2005 SPECIFICALLY because of the RS232 Serial Port that is great for tuning. Not buggy like some of the USB Interfaces can be.

The bad: NEEDS a motherboard (power port is jacked, quick reading HDD) and a hard drive (I'm keeping the one to use as a portable). Small crack on the case by the card slot (the thin piece on the top section), affects no functionality and isn't noticeable until you tear it down.

The Good: 2 Gigs of RAM, Pentium Mobile 2.0 processor, decent on board graphics, 14" monitor (non-widescreen) with a pretty high resolution, runs quick with a 7200 RPM hard drive. Battery is in great shape, will run the computer for 2.5-4 hours depending on usage. Has two USB ports and the obligatory VGA, Parallel, Ethernet, ect. On-board wireless A/B/G wireless card. I can supply a working updateable copy of Windows XP Pro and all drivers with the computer as well as documentation that I have stored away. Also has working power adapter.

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Motherboard will cost approx $50-90 based on Ebay pricing, hard drive (it's an IDE interface) will be however much room you want to have.

Would like to see $75 shipped. Invest around $200 total and have yourself a very nice laptop.

also.......

MSI Radeon 4550 1GB GDDR3 64 Bit video card. This didn't like the resolution I run on my monitor as I found out the hard way. Good for a kids computer or something with a monitor under 24" running at 1920x1080.

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Would like $15 shipped.

[faust]

sean how would your vid card compare to a nvida 6100 as you can tell i'm not all that computer savy

[Fastbird]

It depends. If your 6100 that you have is a 128 bit or 256 bit..... it's going to be a crap shoot based off of the overall memory. The nice thing about this little card is that it's fanless, and has an HDMI port and actually puts audio through the HDMI. But, you can't run a huge resolution on a big monitor, it won't support it. It couldn't keep up with my 24" at 1920x1080, I'd get stuttering in the video. It's why I removed it for something a bit better.

[MeanTA]

Do you still have the computer? I'm needing something to do data logging ect. When I get my motor in my car.

[Fastbird]

I do still have it.