Laptop Request

[Aaron Vegh]

Hi Peter,
I have a P3-500 laptop, a Compaq Armada M300 subnotebook, that is
gathering dust on a shelf here.

I haven't looked at it in a while, but I think it's got 256 MB RAM, a
12GB hard drive, and a 12-inch display (1024x768).

I've used it to both run various flavours of Linux and Windows.

I think it needs a new internal battery (for the mobo) as it doesn't
retain the time at startup. I think the main battery is in okay
condition.

This would be on the low end of what your felllow is looking for, but
I would be willing to donate it for such a worthy cause.

Cheers,
Aaron.


On 2/14/07, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm forwarding this from one of my Ryerson colleagues in Journalism. I can
> vouch for the authenticity of the request.
>
> If anyone has a pentium 3 or 4 class laptop that they'd like to give to a
> good cause, let me know and I'll set up the connection.
>
> Failing that, pointers to inexpensive laptops would be appreciated.
>
> Eventually, I suppose that the OLPC project may be an answer to this kind
> of situation, but for now....
>
> Thanks -
> Peter
> =======================================================================
>
> I do field work in Uganda from time to time, and over  the years I have
> come to know a young man named William Bukenya.  Until September his job
> was selling newspapers in front of the Sheraton Kampala.
>
> I'm not sure how he did it, but somehow he got admitted to business school
> at Makerere University. this is no mean feat, esp for a guy from an
> extremely poor family who has zero connections to anyone important. My
> husband and I have been helping with school fees, but the university is
> asking business students to acquire laptop computers.
>
> Does anyone have a laptop that is reasonably current (Pentium 3 or 4)
> and in not-bad shape, that they would consider donating?
>
> jagg carr-locke
>
> journalism
>
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