I heard the news story on the radio. I felt a twinge of guilt about the iBook G4 sitting in its box with a dead hard drive. Might have a go at replacing that wi

I heard the news story on the radio. I felt a twinge of guilt about the iBook G4 sitting in its box with a dead hard drive. Might have a go at replacing that with a new one (it is a lot of screws, but only screws, no glue to deal with) and putting Debian on it. I prefer recycled laptops now: an X series Duo Core 2 thinkpad (X61(s), X200(s)) can be had for something like £120 in the UK. You can swap the hard drive by undoing a single screw, memory accessible, battery changable (7800mAH battery gives me 8 hours on the X61s). Good to see these small companies springing up. In Birmingham, its the geezer down the market replacing the glass on phones so far.