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THE STORY OF MY HP NX6325 NOTEBOOK
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Let me tell you a story about a laptop I bought in 2006. It was my
first year at university and I was in dire need of such a device.
Notebook prices came down drastically at the time and I bought my HP
compaq nx6325 for about 470 Euros. Here are some specs:
| CPU | AMD Sempron Processor 3500+ @1.8GHz |
| GPU | AMD/ATI Radeon Xpress 200M |
| MEM | 512 MB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM |
| HDD | 60GB @ 5400 rpm |
(Look in the files directory for a current photo[1])
I upgraded the RAM to 2GB, installed Windows XP on it and then used
it for three years as my main machine. Come 2009 I bought a new
"gaming notebook" and tried to get rid of this old piece of junk. I
opened an ebay auction and it sold for 240 Euros. I was really
astonished someone would give me that much money for such an old
device. Turns out the supposed buyers was an ameritard whose account
got hacked so the auction got canceled.
After all this bullshit I printed some flyers advertising my HP for
100 Euros and posted them to bill-boards at university and in my
appartment-building. A few days later a couple came and examined my
old laptop rather sceptically. Nevertheless they said they would buy
it but they would first have to go back to their appartment to get
the money. Five minutes later they call and tell my they don't want
it after all. Ok, so it now it seems I won't get rid of this fucker.
Over the years I used the HP as a backup machine running various
linux distros. It was abused hard, fell to the floor, got beaten up
but it survived it all. In 2019 the hard disk gave up so I decived
to finally throw this thing away. It lay already on the trash pile
when in the last moment I decided to buy a new HDD and only throw
away the completly dead battery. Rescued again!
Now, in 2021 I still use this thing daily. It's too slow to run a
browser but not too slow for text editing, watching videos and
streams and to explore the gopher space. Still going strong after
all these years while my fancy "gaming laptop" has long since bit
the dust. So I guess I'll use this thing till the end of times or
at least until the silicon is completly burned out. Whichever comes
first.
UPDATE 2025-05-27: The situation where I put this laptop on a junk
pile, then recover it to use it for some stupid nerd shit repeated
multiple times over the last 4 years since I wrote this article. But
today was the day! I drove to the recycling depot and got rid of it
for good (together with countless other eletronic devices which
accumulated over the years). So this concludes the story of the
nx6325. It served me for almost 20 years, and it served me
well. RIP.
Footnotes
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[1]
gopher://tilde.club/1/~sulaco/files -> hp_nx6325.jpg
