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Old Windows XP PC with 6 viruses on it is being auctioned as art for over 1.2 million USD

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1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Hol up, lemme go source a mobile IDE drive and 12 viruses....

 

Best Buy employee: *slaps laptop lid* "This bad boy can sell for more than 2 million USD"

 

THIS BAD BOI CAN FIT SOOOO MANY VIRUSES IN IT

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Just now, Sauron said:

THIS BAD BOI CAN FIT SOOOO MANY VIRUSES IN IT

I actually have an XP-era Dell laptop and an XP install disk. All I'm missing now is the HDD and viruses...

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1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I actually have an XP-era Dell laptop and an XP install disk. All I'm missing now is the HDD and viruses...

I have a thiccpad t43 gathering dust, I guess I know what to do with it now

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Just now, Sauron said:

I have a thiccpad t43 gathering dust, I guess I know what to do with it now

I'd love a higher end older laptop to screw around with, honestly.

 

That'd be kind of fun.

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1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I'd love a higher end older laptop to screw around with, honestly.

 

That'd be kind of fun.

Well to its credit it works fine - the keyboard is still stellar and the hardware is enough for basic tasks. Its biggest problems are the deteriorating IDE drive and the inability to play hd content. I could get an IDE ssd (yes, they exist), maybe I will just for the lols. And of course the battery is long gone.

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1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Well to its credit it works fine - the keyboard is still stellar and the hardware is enough for basic tasks. Its biggest problems are the deteriorating IDE drive and the inability to play hd content. I could get an IDE ssd (yes, they exist), maybe I will just for the lols. And of course the battery is long gone.

That's pretty dope.

 

I wonder how much those go for...

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

That's pretty dope.

 

I wonder how much those go for...

You mean IDE SSDs? 60€ on Amazon for a 64gb model, at least for me.

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Just now, Sauron said:

You mean IDE SSDs? 60€ on Amazon for a 64gb model, at least for me.

Newegg shows similar-ish prices:

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=2.5"+PATA+SSD

 

I could probably get lower prices on Ebay, though.

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3 hours ago, Mr. horse said:

A compact flash drive and adapter would be cheaper. CF card's are an ata device and all

Yes, but much worse at running an OS. The controllers are pretty dumb in comparison to even a bad SSD. 

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3 hours ago, Mr. horse said:

Not really. Well some are, most all the older ones are. But the later CF card standards work quite well as an OS drive and you still see them in use on Industrial systems.

I put a lot of CF cards in old think pads for people and haven't had a single reported problem form the users.

Most IDE SSD are rather junky and nothing more then a cheap intagrated CF card and adapter anyway.

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Frig If I knew I could sell old laptops with viruses and make money, I would have just gave everyone who came to the repair shop with a virus infected computer a new machine.

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Is this a form of art? 

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I would not know what to think of someone who actually buys this because of art. I mean, art could be turning something accessible into something with more substance, but auctioning it off for a million dollars? ?

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This again, art huh. Yo hey let mevmake your PC great, I'll turn it into art trust me. 

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8 hours ago, williamcll said:

Is this a form of art? 

Only art of money laundry.

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