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Laptop Component Prices from 1999

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15 Sep 1999 - acinc.com

    Product: TS 30i2 Base System
    Unit Price: 1374
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 1374.00

    Product: Processor
     Celeron 333MHz-$200
     Celeron 366-$247
     Celeron 400MHz-$302
     333MHz PII-$299
     366MHz PII-$457
     400Mhz PII-$654
    Unit Price: 654
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 654.00

    Product: 100MHz SDRAM Memory
     32MB-$54
     64MB-$92
     96MB-$144
     128MB-$182
     192MB-$274
     256Mb-$620
     384MB-$934
    Unit Price: 182
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 182.00

    Product: Hard Disk
     3 GB-$136
     6.5GB-$210
     8.1GB-$326
     10GB-$351
     14.1GB-$595
    Unit Price: 595
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 595.00

    Product: CD-ROM/DVD/FLOPPY
     24X CD/1.44 Floppy - $154
     4x DVD-ROM/1.44 Floppy - $320
    Unit Price: 320
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 320.00

    Product: Network
     10BT PCMCIA-$40
     10/100BT PCMCIA-$82
    Unit Price: 0
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 0.00

    Product: Modem
     56K V.90-$66
    Unit Price: 0
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 0.00

    Product: Software
     Corel WordPerfect Suite 2000 Software Package-$25
     MS Office 2000 Professional-$225
     MS Office 2000 Small Business Edition-$180
     MS Office 97 Professional-$180
    Unit Price: 0
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 0.00

    Product: Operating System
     Windows 98-$99
     Redhat Linux 6.0-$5
    Unit Price: 5
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 5.00

    Product: Display
     14.2 TFT-$0
     15 TFT-$252
    Unit Price: 252
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 252.00

    Product: Port Replicator
    Unit Price: 147
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 147.00

    Product: Car Adaptor
    Unit Price: 41
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 41.00

    Product: Spare AC Adapter + Cable
    Unit Price: 80
    Quantity: 1
    Total: 80.00

    Shipping: $ 64.38 3 Day Select
    Sales Tax: $ 0.00
    TOTAL ORDER: $ 3714.38

Comments

I hit the 2000 HN post character limit pretty hard on this, had to delete all line items with "NONE - $0" in them and so forth to squeeze in all the data above. Pretend you see that in each item above. :)

This was basically a de-badged Dell Inspiron 7000 clone (guessing same factory of origin), it had the cutouts for Dell stickers on the lid but had a generic AMIBIOS (or was it Phoenix?) instead of a Dell branded, but otherwise all the same hardware, all Linux friendly (added my own PCMCIA card for modem/NIC).

Impressive.

This machine with w2k on it or a gnu system has enough power to use many websites and applications today.

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