FS: Dell Latitude LS 12" Ultraportable Laptop. *SOLD*

[Kaervak]

Thank you to all those that were interested.

With my recent purchase of a Thinkpad T23, my LS has been sitting there collecting dust. So, might as well hook someone up with a great little system.


Full Disclosure:
I purchased this laptop in September of 2005 from eBay. When I bought it the LCD ribbon cable was torn. It also had a sticker on it stating it was a refurb from Dell. I've replaced the ribbon cable with one that was pulled from another LS. I've also removed the refurb sticker, the Windows 98 COA and unfortunately the Service Tag sticker. The service tag is still available in the BIOS however (5RLX401). I've also completely taken apart the laptop and replaced the thermal pad with Arctic Silver 5. Makes quite a difference in temperatures. I've also oiled the CPU fan with a teflon based oil and given all the plastics a good cleaning.

I've ran Spinrite on the hard drive and it has found a bad sector that it was able to repair. After the repair I ran all of Spinrite's tests again and the drive came back fine. However, YMMV, the drive could last ten years or die ten minutes after you get it. No guarantees there.

Cosmetically I'd rate the system a 6.5/10. There are scratches/scuffs here and there, not horribly noticeable but you can see them. The USB/Headphone/Mic input cover corner is cracked off, very small piece of plastic though.

The screen has one dead pixel about 1/4 of the way down and dead center. No other marks that I've noticed. Backlight is still quite bright for this system being almost six years old.

And now, hardware specs:

Magnesium alloy casing.
Roughly 8.5"x10"x1"
3 lbs 11 1/4 oz with battery according to my kitchen scale.
12.1" 800x600 @ 24bit LCD (1024x768 @ 24Bit on external monitor)
Pentium III 400 MHz CPU
256MB PC100 SoDIMM (maximum)
6GB 4200RPM Toshiba HDD
Onboard 56k, Ethernet, USB 1.1, headphone, MIC in, VGA out, parallel, docking bay connector, 1 Type II PCMCIA slot, PS/2, External drive connector & built in MIC.
10NRN external drive cable, but no optical drive. ($15 on eBay for a Latitude/Inspiron C-Series drive)
AC Adapter
Battery. Original rating of 3100mAh, currently a little over 2100mAh = usually around two hours of runtime.
No OS. I can include the Windows 2000 Professional COA pulled from my Thinkpad if you want. I'll also throw in the current Knoppix release and Kubuntu 6.06.

Pics:

Cracked corner:
http://users.adelphia.net/~kaervak/IMG_1629.JPG
http://users.adelphia.net/~kaervak/IMG_1631.JPG
http://users.adelphia.net/~kaervak/IMG_1630.JPG
http://users.adelphia.net/~kaervak/IMG_1633.JPG
http://users.adelphia.net/~kaervak/IMG_1632.JPG


All the drivers are built in to 2000/XP and any Linux distro you choose. I've had 2k & Suse 10 on the laptop without having to hunt for any drivers.

New addition to the package, Netgear WGT511T PCMCIA 108Mbps 802.11b/g card. Based on the Atheros Super G chipset, supports WEP, WPA-TKIP & WPA-AES aka WPA2. The Windows drivers are available from Netgear's website, Linux drivers are available from madwifi.org. To get the 108Mbps you'll need an Atheros based router as well.


The laptop will be shipped out via USPS Priority Mail with DC & Insurance. Heatware is here; http://heatware.com/eval.php?id=517 and e-mail is in my profile. Preferred payment method is non CC Paypal however, Money Order or Personal Check is ok with me. Not looking for any trades at this point in time. Thanks all.

[mybellyisempty]

can you post any pics from the sides as well?



also, will it boot off a USB CD-ROM, or does it need something proprietary?

[Kaervak]

The laptop is currently pending to another seller, so I'm going to hold off on the pics until I have a definite purchase. To answer the CD-ROM question, as far as I know it can't boot from USB. You'll need to get a Dell specific optical drive. They're fairly cheap on eBay actually, found a few selling for under $15 shipped.