2 scrap laptops for $55
I am very pleased - both laptops are now functional. $25.50 in parts and a 80 gb drive out of a drawer got a Dell e6400 going great on Mint Linux 19.1. The old list price of the e6400 shows in its quality. Love the speakers! Laptop 2 is a Dell e6510 that lacks a screen and has a touch pad issue, but with $16 worth of ram, a usb mouse, and connected to a 32inch TV it also came to life (the 80 gb drive with mint previously loaded adjusted itself to the hardware). I have abandoned Win 10 as awkward bloatware that is a marketing tool instead of a viable OS. I am using a dual boot of soon unsupported Win 7 (for Outlook) and Linux now. Older computers work very well for this, and do not get on my last nerve.