The Klunker of a Laptop

A friend asked me to take a look at a laptop he “bought from a guy at home depot for $20”. He wanted to see if I can get it setup and running for him. At first I was afraid he was suckered into buying a stolen laptop. After playing with it for a few minutes I realized that he was in fact suckered, but the laptop likely wasn’t stolen. Instead this list began to form in my mind: “Signs that your laptop is a klunker”.

• An accessory is a removable floppy drive.
• The operating system happily announces that the battery will no longer hold a charge
• It includes a dial-up modem.
• It is heavier than a modern day desktop.
• It runs an operating system from the previous century (in this case Windows 95)
• A cheap cell phone has a better processor and more RAM.
• The time & date on the computer says it is currently 1980.