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For sale: one laptop

I wanted to give you folks a crack at it before I put it on eBay; you’ve got until noon Friday to express interest and/or make an offer.

I’m selling one (1) Toshiba A55-S1063 laptop. The specs on this laptop are:

• CPU: Intel Celeron M, 1.5GHz
• RAM: 256 MB DDR 333 RAM, upgradeable to (I think) 1 GB (2×512)
• Hard drive: 40 GB, upgradeable to whatever laptop hard drive you want to shove into it
• Optical drive: CD-RW/DVD-ROM; this laptop has NO floppy drive, if that matters to you.
• Ports: 3 USB, 1 external monitor, 1 (I believe) printer, 1 headphone port, 1 AC adapter port, 1 Type II PC Card slot
• Screen size: 15″ viewable glossy XVGA
• Communications: One WinModem, one Intel PRO 10/100 Ethernet connector, one Atheros 802.11 b/g Wifi card

Additionally, I’ve seen elsewhere that this laptop supports PCMCIA. Not sure about that for sure.

This laptop comes with

1. The laptop
2. The laptop’s AC adapter
3. The laptop’s restore disc
4. 1 battery, still very good (I get approx. 3-5 hours usage out of it)
5. Your choice of any OS I have a legal license for: that basically comes down to Windows XP Home or some variant of Linux. Ubuntu Linux runs well on this and recognizes nearly everything - hotkeys, peripherals, wireless, everything except the modem. I can verify it will run Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, Windows XP Professional, and a bunch of other OSes no one would want to use.

This laptop’s still in great condition; however, it no longer suits my needs, so I’m offering it to you, my readers, before hawking it on eBay. Ideally I’d like to get around $400-$500 for it, but make me an offer.