Random question -- I have a ~4 year old Dell laptop that doesn't work all that well. Would someone buy it for parts? If so, how much would they pay? It's just occurred to me that instead of having it sit in my living room, I could try to sell it on craigslist.
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
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Jesse - Aug 10, 2005 6:34:31 am PDT #3951 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DCJensen - Aug 10, 2005 7:39:09 am PDT #3952 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
You might eve be able to sell it to a fellow Buffista.
What are the specs, or at least model number, if you can? That will let us know what it's worth.
Jesse - Aug 10, 2005 8:09:30 am PDT #3953 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can guarantee you it's not worth shipping. It freezes up all the time.
Wolfram - Aug 10, 2005 8:21:14 am PDT #3954 of 10003
Visilurking
I don't know how much you know about computers, but sometimes a freezing problem can be fixed through software, or with just one new component like a hard drive or memory or a video card. I know the first two are generally swappable on notebooks, I'm not sure about the third.
Jesse - Aug 10, 2005 8:25:00 am PDT #3955 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I replaced the whole thing already, anyway, but thanks.
dcp - Aug 10, 2005 9:34:02 am PDT #3956 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
they just transfer my old numbers into the new phone
Not quite. I had to replace my phone last year, and what Sprint did was generate a paper print-out of my address book. I had to re-enter all the information by hand.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2005 9:38:40 am PDT #3957 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had to re-enter all the information by hand.
It will depend on the phones. You could beam everything from one to the other.
le nubian - Aug 10, 2005 9:45:30 am PDT #3958 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I moved last August (Motorola phone) and I had to spend about 10-15 minutes saving all my phone numbers to the phone, not the card, so I could keep all the numbers. That was a pain. So if I remember, I try to save my numbers to my phone.
Of course, when I get a new phone (probably next year), I'll have to save all the numbers to the card!
Cass - Aug 10, 2005 9:47:49 am PDT #3959 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
They can also do magic with cabling. Though Verizon loses all of my text messages and email addresses every single time, the phone numbers are preserved perfectly.
If there's a knob on the side of the camera, you at least know it must do something. Curiosity is piqued. Learning follows.Or smoke. Ocassionally both.
HiddenSky - Aug 10, 2005 12:04:17 pm PDT #3960 of 10003
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Do Sprint phones use SIM cards? If the phone has a SIM card, then you should be able to transfer any numbers (extra stuff like emails, etc. most likely wouldn't be saved on the card) that are saved on the card (not to the phone itself) when you transfer the SIM card from one phone to the other. Still, I would back everything up manually just in case.