Showing posts with label windows vista. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows vista. Show all posts
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Not THAT Henry! That one's © King Features Syndicate. Click to enlarge image.[/caption]
It may be a hardship to be homeless, but to be homeless, and computer-less? Oh, the horror. Well, Henry was both for a while. Now he has a quite-nice, 17-inch Toshiba Satellite P300 laptop. He appeared with it in McDonalds one morning, and happily showed me the shiny "Vista-ready" slab he'd found the previous evening, with none of the usual, tedious dumpster diving, it had been beside a dumpster, with bags and bags of other stuff.
Henry did have one problem. He couldn't get past the login screen --
Not THAT Henry! That one's © King Features Syndicate. Click to enlarge image.[/caption]It may be a hardship to be homeless, but to be homeless, and computer-less? Oh, the horror. Well, Henry was both for a while. Now he has a quite-nice, 17-inch Toshiba Satellite P300 laptop. He appeared with it in McDonalds one morning, and happily showed me the shiny "Vista-ready" slab he'd found the previous evening, with none of the usual, tedious dumpster diving, it had been beside a dumpster, with bags and bags of other stuff.
Henry did have one problem. He couldn't get past the login screen --
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"Windows Vista-ready." Vista's the good one, after Windows 8, right?[/caption]
I've posted about dumpster laptops before -- and I will again, but they are an uncommon find, at least, for me. This Samsung, sans memory, was sitting by the side of an alley by a dumpster, just feet from where I moved it for a better photograph. The memory slot door was unattached underneath it. No AC adapter, naturally. Click images to enlarge.
"Windows Vista-ready." Vista's the good one, after Windows 8, right?[/caption]
I've posted about dumpster laptops before -- and I will again, but they are an uncommon find, at least, for me. This Samsung, sans memory, was sitting by the side of an alley by a dumpster, just feet from where I moved it for a better photograph. The memory slot door was unattached underneath it. No AC adapter, naturally. Click images to enlarge.
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