A Surplus Notebook

Just yesterday, I was able to get hold of an "old" laptop/notebook. The brand is unknown to many, even me, and I doubt that if I go to any computer shops, they would know this brand. It's called PURPOSE, hehehe heck, I even tried to GOOGLE it and found not match. I said it's old because it runs on PENTIUM II 400 MHz, has 128 MB RAM, 3 GB of HDD and a 16-bit LCD screen. It was running Windows 98 and by the forces of the dark side, it was terriby slow.

My brother-in-law, gave this notebook to my wife, well, if you'll just look at it, well, it's small, as compared to the VAIO that I am currently using. But when I started tinkering with it, I saw the flaws, and tell you there were a lot. The whole body case creeks, and bends everytime I exert pressure on the thing, the battery is just running perhaps on the small juice it's got left (it won't survive if you try to unplug it from the mains), the whole keyboard marking's a mess (good thing I memorized most of the keyboard markings), and the space where one could rest his left hand while typing heats up like a furnace.

I tried updating the software, so I could use it to surf the internet, I installed the USB Moden driver for our DSL line and updated IE and installed MAXTHON browser (why not FIREFOX you might ask? Well, the disc space is a very big factor). MS OFFICE installed is OFFICE 2000 and I won't dare to upgrade it anymore. I tried installing the DRIVER for my USB Flash Drive to no avail.

I thought of using it for my daily lectures instead of bringing the very big VAIO everyday, but decided not to, this thing might die on me and I might get into prison for it hehehe. I'd be playing with this baby for sometime and well, to the shelf it'll go.