Well, it's a year late, but the new machine named "Data" is here! Data was built by Directron in April, 2005.
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Blue Aspire
X-Plorer ATX Mid Tower Computer Case ASUS A8V-E
Deluxe Socket 939 ATX Motherboard, Athlon 64 3000+ Corsair TWINX512-3200C2
DDR 400MHz 512MB (PC 3200) Memory for Dual Channel Motherboard ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon X600 Pro Video Card, 256MB, PCI-E, VGA/TV-Out/DVI-I & S/PDIF Enermax Whisper II ATX12V Ver 2.0 Power Supply, SLI Ready, 20+4 pin, 535W, Support PCI-E & SATA, Model: EG565P-VE FMA 2.0. |
Super Fast V.92 56k PCI
Bus Internal Modem, Lucent Chipset, OEM
Creative Labs Sound
Blaster Live! 24-bit Sound Card, SB0410, up to 7.1 Surround Sound, OEM
Blue Aspire
PS2 Multimedia Keyboard & Optical Mouse 2 in 1 Combo, Model: KI-COMBO-Blue
Western Digital Caviar SE HD-WD1600JD
Serial ATA 160GB Hard Drive, 8MB Cache, 7200 rpm, with vibration damping
grommet
Black NEC ND-3520A
16x DVR-ND-3520A-BK DVD Double Layer Burner DVD+/-RW, w/Dual-CD Audio Cable
Black Mitsumi 7-in-1
USB 2.0 FA404M Internal Memory Card Reader/Writer + Floppy Disk Drive Combo
Black Asus CRW-5232AS
QuietTrack 52x32x52x CD-RW, with vibration damping grommet
Total $1135.60
Speakers: Altec
Lansing ACS54 5-piece surround with subwoofer
Monitor: KDS
XF-7 17" Xtreme Flat
The new laptop (March, 2007) is a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4467.

This is the old laptop, named "Hal"
Here is the old machine. Many thanks to netTrekker for making the funding possible. Also, thanks for Pricewatch.com for getting the price way down and to Leo from TechTV for recommending Pricewatch!

Case: Mid-Tower ATX Case with 300 watt power supply (Athlon approved)
CPU: AMD Athlon
K7-750 MHz with 3D Now! with heat sink & dual fan
Motherboard: Asus
K7V slot A 133 MHz bus with 4x AGP, UDMA/66
RAM: 256 MB PC 133 SDRAM
Hard drive:
Seagate 20.4 Gig, 7200 rpm UDMA/66 7.6ms Barracuda (ST320420A)
Backup Hard Drive: same
Floppy Drive: 3 1/2 inch Imation LS120
DVD: Samsung 12x DVD/40x CD-ROM
Video: ATi
All-in-Wonder 128 Pro 32 MB 4x AGP Video/TV tuner/DVD decoder
Sound: Sound Blaster Live! Value
Modem: Lucent v.90 56K voice/fax/data modem
Cable Modem: 3Com External Cable Modem (USB)
Keyboard: Microsoft Internet Keyboard, Logitech Cordless Keyboard
Mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse, Logitech Cordless Mouse
Fans: 1 in front, 1 in back, 1 on the power supply, 2 on the Athlon
Speakers: Altec Lansing ACS54 5-piece surround with subwoofer
Monitor: KDS XF-7 17" Xtreme Flat
Printer: Lexmark X83 All-in-One
CD-RW: Hewlett Packard CD-Writer Plus 4x2x24 8100 series
OS: Windows XP Professional
X10 Wireless Camera
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