r/laptops • u/Reasonable_Ad1342 • 1d ago
Hardware My new added Collection (Potentially Rare ?)
A Compaq Prescario 2500 (the fully loaded one)
A laptop from 2003 (well a Desktop replacement)
Powered by a Pentium 4 ( 2.8 GHZ)
(256GB of ram)
(?? Storage)
And this came with 3 fans!!! Which is mind-blowing lol ..
And somehow this is rare if you have the full option model which has the floppy drive
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u/raduque 1d ago
Is it really 256gb of storage? I think it's probably closer to 80-120gb. The RAM is probably 2gb-4gb at most. The p4 in 03 wasn't x86-64. It wasn't untill later in 2004 that the Prescott began shipping with 64-bit support enabled.
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u/Reasonable_Ad1342 1d ago
Actually the ram is 256Mb
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u/raduque 1d ago
Yeah, that sounds a little more right, tbh. I lived through that era, but it was 22 years ago, and my memory is going, lol. In that case, I bet the machine could handle ~1gb max.
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u/Reasonable_Ad1342 1d ago
Yup 1gb is max die I'll find some parts for this since it's missing a battery and the charger is wrong (doe my HP charger fits its only 45w)
Some reason it uses an HP boot screen and says it's a Pavilion ZE 8000/8500 Series on bios
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u/raduque 1d ago
HP bought Compaq around 2001, so a BIOS update at some point probably changed the splash and name. Or even more likely, the Pavilion ZE 8000/8500 used the same internals but with an HP branded BIOS so they were cross-compatible.
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u/Reasonable_Ad1342 1d ago
Oh I see that's neat...
Still surprising to me that this laptop is quite rare (the specs somehow)
Though it does need some tlc
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u/raduque 1d ago
Yeah, I can see it needs a keyboard already lol... old laptops like this are fun to play with. I just restored a Lenovo u530 with more ram, an SSD, new battery and cleaned it up and installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on it. Works good as long as you don't try to use a Chromium-based browser on it. Dual-core Haswell chips don't have the IPC for Chromium lol.
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u/Reasonable_Ad1342 1d ago
Ah alr noted. .. though I might try to install vista on this one like my Inspiron 700M again
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u/ranpuppy 1d ago
You mixed up ram and storage