Compaq evo N1005v

[Doggy]

Doggy's ancient laptop died earlier this week.

So, with customary extravagance, I snapped up the above on fleabay for a whopping £27 & was able to collect it in person this evening, courtesy of a 25-mile detour on the way home.

My question - is it likely to be any good? Seems the battery's knackered, but otherwise seems to work.

Looks like Galletto, PP2000 & Ecusafe have all installed and seem to work, though I have yet to try connecting to a car.

Was I robbed?

[highlander]

£27 for any working computer is a good deal

This one is also suitably ancient - you can tell because it still has a built-in floppy disk drive...

Here's HP Compaq's QuickSpecs page on the machine:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quic ... 8_div.html

If the sole reason you've bought it is as a diagnostics machine for working on cars, then that's all very well and good. I wouldn't try and play Crysis on it though.

Not surprised the battery is f*cked, it's at least 10 years old and has either spent its entire life plugged into the mains, or in the laptop bag of some road warrior (read: photocopier salesman). A brand new one can be purchased from here:
http://www.hplaptopbattery.co.uk/compaq ... -29995.htm

... although it costs more than the laptop did.

[Doggy]

Thanks, Graeme. It is purely for car diagnostics, a task the previous Dell Inspiron 1000 with XP Home Ed, seemed perfectly capable of.

(I read the specs, but TBH couldn't make much sense of them).