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Episode: 2595
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Title: HPR2595: New laptop bargain?
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2595/hpr2595.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 06:20:18
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This in HP are episode 2500 and 95 entitled New App Top Bargain, and in part of the series, Hardware Upgrades.
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It is hosted by Tony H.A. Tony H.1212 and in about 4 minutes long and carrying a clean flag.
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The summary is, this in a short show about another trip to the computer auction and one of my purchases.
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Greetings HPR listeners. This is Tony Hughes again coming from
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Blackpool in the UK.
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As you heard on my last episode, I recently visited the computer auction and I frequent here in the UK.
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If you want to draw over their catalogue, their website is www.realnorth.co.uk and I'll
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pop a copy of that in the show notes. So at the sale in June, they had some really good three to four year old laptops for sale.
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And I decided to take a trip to see if I could liberate a few bargains.
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And one of the items I came away with was 3 to Shuba Z30A Ultrabooks of the i5 4th generation
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aspect. The basic specs are i5 4300U CPU 128GB M-SATA Solid State Drive 8GB of DDR RAM.
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It's got 3 USB 3 ports, VGA and HDMI video out combined audio in and out jack SD card reader
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and a full ethernet jack. It's also got mobile Intel HD graphics which uses up to 192 megabytes of
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the shared memory with the rest of the machine. I'll put a link in the show notes to the full
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specifications. I had also picked up some 240 gig SSDs at the auction and the plan to upgrade the
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storage but this isn't possible as there's no 2.5 inch drive bay. It does support up to 128 gig
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high capacity SD cards so this could be an option if you don't want to go down the expensive
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upgrading the M-SATA drive. However, as luck would have it, one of the other machines I purchased
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had a 256 gig M-SATA drive in a 2.5 inch caddy so I was able to swap that out and both laptops
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got an upgrade but I'll tell you more about that in another show. So after doing the hardware
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upgrade I proceeded to install Ubuntu 1804 Mate onto the PC. The install worked flawlessly
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and after completion and configuration the machine to my liking everything seems to be working fine.
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Battery condition for a four year old laptop is excellent at over 90% however a replacement
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can be had only bay for around 30 pound of needed and I always factor this into any second 10 laptops
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I buy. Since I got it running I've installed Windows 7 in a virtual machine in this case virtual
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box as I've already got a pre configured virtual box and a hard drive image that makes it less
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of a hassle to install as I don't have to spend days waiting for the upgrades to come through
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when this is up and running in the background who doesn't over tax the host machine
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and for Linux users it does mean you have access to the occasional bits of lightweight MS
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software that you might need without the need to look around to PCs. So did I bag a bargain?
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Well four years ago the release of these laptops they went for about 1100 quid plus in the UK
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and even today they fetch 160 pounds in good order on the likes of eBay for a model with
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the specification as a high-riginally purchased it. I would never have been on the market to spend
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a thousand pounds plus on the laptop now or then so the only way I can enjoy these types of machines
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is after they've been pre-loved by someone else. Let's just say 160 pounds is quite a bit more
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than I paid but with the upgrade to a 256 gig M SATA drive I have a better machine for a little less
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than that. I personally think I've bagged the bargain which will probably do me good service
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for the coming months and years. So anyway that's enough about this particular purchase
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I'll see you down the line sometimes. Bye for now.
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