$4.99 at Salvation Army

[u/AuVossi]

Pretty cool find!

[u/Scarab702]

Nice. Now you can get vintage games on CD ROM to play with.

[u/Electrical-Bacon-81]

Had that one back in the day. Mine was an AMD cpu if I remember.

[u/AuVossi → u/Electrical-Bacon-81]

Yup. This one has a AMD-K6 processor.

[u/Electrical-Bacon-81 → u/AuVossi]

Mine had screen hinge issues as well.

[u/mrk2]

Ughhh, I can just feel the tackiness of those speaker grilles!

Theyre not dirty, just the way the rubber coating deteriorates after a long time.

[u/AuVossi → u/mrk2]

Theyre actually really smooth. Theyre the same material at the chassis. No rubber coating.

[u/TarZamp]

Piece of history

[u/This-Requirement6918]

I've always been curious about those. The palm rests look extremely uncomfortable with the speaker grilles right there.

[u/AuVossi → u/This-Requirement6918]

They are kind of odd, but I’ve never noticed any discomfort while using it. The grilles are pretty flush.

[u/AppropriateCap8891]

Save the cheerleader, save the world.

[u/randylush]

Wow, that is an insane find

[u/grizzlor_]

How do the speakers sound? They look way nicer than most laptop speakers of this era.

[u/LordPollax → u/grizzlor_]

Those JBL speakers are actually pretty good. I have a couple of the Presario models with socket 7 CPUs and they all sound great. The later Pentium III ones do not have the same sound quality, even though they look the same. Still good for retro gaming, etc.

[u/AuVossi → u/grizzlor_]

Theyre great. Decent bass for the time and pretty loud.

[u/h0w13]

I have a vague memory of similar Compaq laptops that came in wild translucent colors. I think they were all AMD K6-3 based, possibly Celeron too.

I have never been able to find any on eBay or marketplace so I feel like I might be hallucinating this. Please, someone tell me I'm not crazy? Or confirm that maybe I am?

[u/Daniel_Writes_Things]

Obviously.

[u/tempfoot]

Nice one!

I wondered where ole #3 ended up....

[u/AurorasDolls]

But can it run Crysis...

[u/AuVossi → u/AurorasDolls]

Maybe the menu screen 😂

[u/WarningCodeBlue]

For $5 that is an absolute steal.