Monday, April 29, 2024

Iconic

Came across an old Acer Iconia W700P, battery said it was healthy but wouldn't charge, SSD would handle clean OS installations and then fail to boot consistently, Acer's BIOS-update download links are dead, disassembly was brutal (so much adhesive, so many annoying cable runs), and I finally just gave-up on it figuring something's not working on the motherboard. Would've been a cool little tablet PC; ran Linux really well...

...But then someone gave me an (also old) HP Stream - 14-ax010ca (ENERGY STAR) and despite a dual-core/single-thread CPU and a 32GB eMMC for storage, that thing is not bad at all when running EndeavourOS (Windows 11 was a different story) plus it comes in a delightful blue shell :) I think I may just carry that around for meetings to freak people out.

I was given a box of old video games with along with the Stream, and this is just what I'm choosing to keep from it:

GC:

  • Baten Kaitos
  • Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix
  • Donkey Konga
  • Pikmin
  • Pikmin 2
  • Star Wars Rogue Leader

PS2:

  • Dirge of Cerberus
  • Haunting Ground (!!!)
  • Radiata Stories

XBOX 360:

  • LEGO Rock Band
  • Rock Band 3
...And the rest should net me $100~$300

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