Saying Hi, Buying a Toughbook Soon.
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:29 pm
Howdy!
First im almost sure this in the wrong thread. But I cant find one to put this in. So heres a blurb about me.
Alright guys, My names Allen, and Im new to the Toughbook world.I drive a 66 mustang, and have always loved tinkering with computers. Ive always admired the Toughbook's but never has the $$$ to buy one. Well, My job, a business asset recovery company (Legally cant say the name, we do alot with the government... hush hush stuff) we get all kinds of stuff in. And we just got a shipment of about 100 or so toughbooks that had been taken out of service. Most are 28's and earlier, most being p3's. So... while I was checking them in... I noticed a diamond in the rough. A CF-30, well 4 actually. So I quickly sat those to the side and continued my work. Well to cut it short. I found one I liked. Its a M1, in decent shape, all the little rubber parts and everything in order. Theres no HDD Caddy or ODD, so I couldn't dive into to much info. But, It only has 2040 hours or about 85 continuous days use. I was amazed. Ive started the purchasing process for employees from my job.
So, naturally Im going to have ALOT of questions, but of course, Ill search first, then ask.
My current Plans:
Install 4gb of ddr2. (Curiosity, can anyone confirm 4gb is the actual board limit and not just the limit that was stated because of the 32bit os?)
Find A Hard Drive Caddy
160gb Hard Drive.
Find A DVD drive of some sort.
Install w7 ult x64 if possible.
And more likely a fingerprint reader, just for the OMG effect.
First im almost sure this in the wrong thread. But I cant find one to put this in. So heres a blurb about me.
Alright guys, My names Allen, and Im new to the Toughbook world.I drive a 66 mustang, and have always loved tinkering with computers. Ive always admired the Toughbook's but never has the $$$ to buy one. Well, My job, a business asset recovery company (Legally cant say the name, we do alot with the government... hush hush stuff) we get all kinds of stuff in. And we just got a shipment of about 100 or so toughbooks that had been taken out of service. Most are 28's and earlier, most being p3's. So... while I was checking them in... I noticed a diamond in the rough. A CF-30, well 4 actually. So I quickly sat those to the side and continued my work. Well to cut it short. I found one I liked. Its a M1, in decent shape, all the little rubber parts and everything in order. Theres no HDD Caddy or ODD, so I couldn't dive into to much info. But, It only has 2040 hours or about 85 continuous days use. I was amazed. Ive started the purchasing process for employees from my job.
So, naturally Im going to have ALOT of questions, but of course, Ill search first, then ask.
My current Plans:
Install 4gb of ddr2. (Curiosity, can anyone confirm 4gb is the actual board limit and not just the limit that was stated because of the 32bit os?)
Find A Hard Drive Caddy
160gb Hard Drive.
Find A DVD drive of some sort.
Install w7 ult x64 if possible.
And more likely a fingerprint reader, just for the OMG effect.