Fixing up a 2003 Woodgrain Dell Inspiron 600M Laptop
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Dell made swappable lid covers for their Inspiron laptops in the early 2000s, and of course, one of them being a burled woodgrain means I had to have one. But then it turns out the 600M is pretty sweet in both its features and design! And with parts still being rather common and affordable, it was fun to quickly gather up a buncha goodies and fix this one up.
● Video-related linkage:
https://www.repc.com/
https://www.parts-people.com/
https://archive.org/details/600m_20240713
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4HAqGrJFCU
● Background music is from Epidemic Sound:
https://www.epidemicsound.com/
00:00 heck yeah woodgrain
00:24 the Inspiron 600M
03:00 well-equipped I/O
04:54 teardown, sponsor bit
06:32 motherboard, insides
07:12 internal upgrades
09:35 CPU stuff
10:11 Dell Benz Red Lava
11:00 cleaning up
11:51 rubber, port replicator
13:17 powering on
13:38 reserve battery
14:49 installing Windows XP
15:33 installing drivers
16:10 factory fresh setup
16:57 Musicmatch, RealPlayer
17:54 DVD player, Ice Age
19:47 Quake III
21:33 Midtown Madness 2
23:34 Grand Theft Auto III
25:52 Minimum Payne
26:27 Need For Speed HP2
28:34 multi monitor madness
30:04 iffy Duke Nukem 3D
31:13 another box of fun!
33:47 final thoughts
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