This is my old laptop, still works great
it's been upgraded with a Belkin PCMCIA type 2 WIFI card
and had a memory upgrade now running 196Mb RAM
the computer is running windows 2000 with firefox browser
everything on the computer works as it should
battery life surfing on the internet is over an hour



CPU Intel Mobile Celeron 550Mhz
BIOS Phoenix BIOS. Press F2 to enter
Memory 196MB PC100 SODIMM (1 memory slot. Max 320MB)
Hard Drive 6GB Hitachi DK23AA-60
CD Drive Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2402
Screen 12.1" TFT (800x600)
Video Card SMI 710 LynxEM4
Sound Card SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
Modem HSP56 MicroModem
PC Card Will take either 2x Type I/II or 1x Type III
Ports 1x Serial
1x Parallel
1x VGA
1x PS/2
1x USB
1x Headphone
1x Audio Input
1x Microphone
1x Modem
1x Kensington Lock
1x IR
Battery L7000 (10.8v 4500mAh)
Made By Asus L7300/L7200 series

comes with power supply, £50 cash on collection, either from liverpool (west derby) or during working hours birkenhead by the college

Should run okayish with 2000 tbh, but may not like SP4 if you have updated it due to increased RAM usage - if you havent already, it would be worth changing any non-essential Windows services to "manual" or even "diasbled". A good browser for a low spec system like this would be K-Meleon - check it out, only uses about 15 - 20MB out of the box, and then a further ~2MB per tab. It uses the Mozilla source (ala Firefox and Opera) and is highly customizable, as well as fully compliant with everything Firefox, and supports most plugins.

Another light browser, Google Chrome wont work in 2000, but there is an alternative built on the same source code that works in it called Iron, by SRWare.

I use 2000 Pro as my backup OS on my old desktop and its still as solid as a rock, and fast as fook (running it on a Pentium III Tualatin 1.4Ghz with 512MB RAM) - its a business OS, so it has to be efficient, secure and stable.

thanks for the info, kept the system basic when I restored it, chose 2000 so it will run most modern website's and handle all wifi key's windows 98 struggles with both of these issues

how well does iron handle flash player ?

I shall check for you now - I actually use K-Meleon and Opera in it (personal preference).

And yes, 98 vs 2000, there is no comparison, 98 is the outdated MS-DOS dependent W4.1 and 2000 is NT5.0 (Windows XP is 5.1), the latter being built for business, around a core of security, stability and reliability.

2000, as with XP, can run most modern programmes and handle most modern everyday tasks, 98 is a no-no for doing much on at all, and that is aside from the major security and reliability flaws it sufferes from (no protection forthe first meg of memory).

Just tried YouTube on Iron, had to install flash player, didnt even have to restart the browser and it was working without issue.

for the money didn't think this item would be here this long... oh well looks like I'll take the hit and take it to cash converter's or similar saturday