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rsuaver
Senior Member - 9K
posted: Jan. 31, 2013 @ 12:45p
That's like 5 years old... replaced by the E line - 6x00, 6x10, 6x20, 6x30...
2cheap2eat
Broke Member
posted: Jan. 31, 2013 @ 1:29p
Might be okay if swap out the hard drive. Don't want a 5 year old drive to crash!
StHalcyon
Senior Member
posted: Jan. 31, 2013 @ 5:47p
Is this a joke?
fris
Member
posted: Jan. 31, 2013 @ 7:53p
StHalcyon said: Is this a joke? Believe or not, my old D630 is my daily driver (Win 7, SSD, and 4GB RAM added along the way)
Other laptops have come and gone, but this thing has been solid, and runs great
b534202
Senior Member
posted: Jan. 31, 2013 @ 10:46p
2cheap2eat said: Might be okay if swap out the hard drive. Don't want a 5 year old drive to crash!
Good luck finding a hard drive for it that isn't 5 years old. It uses a weird 'zif' drive.
fris
Member
posted: Jan. 31, 2013 @ 11:25p
b534202 said: 2cheap2eat said: Might be okay if swap out the hard drive. Don't want a 5 year old drive to crash!
Good luck finding a hard drive for it that isn't 5 years old. It uses a weird 'zif' drive. Not true- any presently available 9.5mm SATA hard drive should work in this. Only SATA I, but supports AHCI. I have SSD in it.
b534202
Senior Member
posted: Jan. 31, 2013 @ 11:55p
fris said: b534202 said: 2cheap2eat said: Might be okay if swap out the hard drive. Don't want a 5 year old drive to crash!
Good luck finding a hard drive for it that isn't 5 years old. It uses a weird 'zif' drive. Not true- any presently available 9.5mm SATA hard drive should work in this. Only SATA I, but supports AHCI. I have SSD in it.
Yeah, you're right. It is the D430 that uses the quirky hd.
StHalcyon
Senior Member
posted: Feb. 1, 2013 @ 8:18p
I don't know... I had a D620 built in early 2007 and have been using it till Sept of last year when my company decided to replace it. Though an SSD would've helped, it wouldn't have helped by a whole lot. =)
fris said: StHalcyon said: Is this a joke? Believe or not, my old D630 is my daily driver (Win 7, SSD, and 4GB RAM added along the way)
Other laptops have come and gone, but this thing has been solid, and runs great
fris
Member
posted: Feb. 4, 2013 @ 10:33p
StHalcyon said: I don't know... I had a D620 built in early 2007 and have been using it till Sept of last year when my company decided to replace it. Though an SSD would've helped, it wouldn't have helped by a whole lot. =)
lol, yeah these aren't barnburners for sure... But the D630 was big upgrade to D620, as it added Santa Rosa chipset, Core 2 Duo, AHCI support, 64 bit memory support to 8 gb, newer graphics options, brighter screen, Intel flash Cache, Wireless-N, and Firewire port... I run it with an SSD- it does the typical road warrior stuff well and has been rock solid (for me)
zoid99
Senior Member
posted: Feb. 4, 2013 @ 10:37p
Makes a nice Hackintosh but the price is about $100 too much..
redgtxdi
Senior Member
posted: Feb. 4, 2013 @ 11:04p
Only thing I would warn against (and most likely the reason you are seeing this as a "refurb") is the video processor on the basic d630 setup is a ticking time bomb.
I learned about it after I bought my daughter one a while back. Great laptop otherwise......just that ultimately the video (and as such, motherboard) will choke and die. My daughter may have contributed a bit with constant skyping (external camera as d630 doesn't have native camera) but when reading up on what was going wrong with hers, that's when I learned about the video/mobo prob.
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