What to do with old CF-28

I have a CF-28 that I bought years ago as my first toughbook. It worked great and then I upgraded to a 29. The 28 has been sitting in a box since I bought the 29 and I just don't need it anymore. It works, turns on, the battery doesn't last too long anymore and obviously it feels ancient and slow.

Just wondering what are my options with it? I don't have any disks to wipe out my information and start over new. Do I sell it whole without the hard drive? I cant imagine I would get any money for it like that. Or do I do my best to take it apart and sell parts off of it, or basically do I have a nice doorstop and I should just throw it in the dumpster?

 

Hi Streetrider

I was tired of tripping over the CF-28 as well. I gave one to to a member here and the other to waiter at a TGI Fridays. This waiter was living in a extened stay hotel because of a house fire.

A CF-28 is not a lot but least you can surf the web. There are a lot of members here that use models older that this.

 

As the screen in my CF-29 gave up, my old cf-28 has taken over in the work truck. Properly managed, you'd be surprised how competent they still are. As long as you use lightweight programs, tweaked OS and its maxed out (mine is a 800mhz P3, 768mb ram and 60gb 7200rpm hdd.) it still a good enough rig for basic use.

The most work mine is seeing is car diagnostic scanning, word and excel 2003 and some spotify. Still browsing the web with chrome (and some extensions) works without the user wanting to throw it out a window.

 

I bought 3 CF-28 mk2 (800Mhz) machines 4 weeks ago. They all have 512 MB ram, 30 gig hd , DVD-rom , 800x600 transflective touchscreen and BlueTooth ! (Seems that not many CF-28s have the standard bluetooth expansion). Also a modem port and a GPRS modem that can use my Vodafone Sim-card. Sadly they do not have WIFI or standard network ports.

All 3 came with Windows 2000 clean install. Now they are running Windows XP Sp2 and 1 with SP3

I installed many games to test the graphic chip just for my gametesting and making a list of games that work on a CF-28. (Made also a huge gamelist for the CF-M34 mk2 (Celeron 400Mhz) machine in another topic on this forum).

Nice machines that have rather good wireless options : Wifi a/b/g (thanks to my 3-com PCMCIA cards), bluetooth and the GPRS (i love to SMS with my friends and girlfriend)

I used internet only to install some updates for some programs.

Anyhow, the CF-28s might be a bit slow nowadays, but still can do the trick. If you have enough patience , this machine can be your durable partner, wherever you are.

 

Give it for charity to someone in "laptop need".

 

Hi Streetriders
You could pull the hard drive out of the HD carrier, which is easy. If there is anything on it you want, or want to use it as a portable drive, get a 25 buck portable drive holder, and install it there. If there is nothing on it you care to have, and don't want it, erase the drive with a hammer and you're done. Alternately you could delete personal files and sell it as is, but data is usually recoverable and not 100 percent secure if the next owner cares to really try (r-studio or the like) unless you use something like r-studio to erase it.

 

I'd sell it to jeff Daniels for a price he can't refuse...

 

The 12 step meeting begins in 15 minutes...Bring your own couch full of Toughbooks:hi2:

 

Thanks for the reply guys. I think maybe my first post wasnt the best. I personally am not looking for a reason to keep it or to fix it up in any way. I am just really wondering what is the best way to get rid of it, whole or parts, or if anyone would want it in either form. Pulling the hard drive is easy enough for me, I dont think there is anything on there I want but I would have to double check again.

 

Yes people would want it. Put it in the buy sell trade section of this forum. Someone will buy it or trade you something for your CF29.

 

Jeff is hiding............

 

Maybe 28 day rehab?????