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Old 09-27-2007, 07:09 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Salvaging from a Dead Laptop

The Graphics card is the only thing you won't be able to save that you listed. Everything else should be an industry standard so you can transplant it.

You can use the hard drive in a desktop with an adapter. With the RAM you can put it in a laptop that also takes the same RAM (not sure if that laptop has DDR2 or DDR RAM).

The wireless adapter you *might* be able to use in a desktop with a special adapter, but its probably going to be very hard to find this adapter (PCI to Mini-PCI).

The processor depending on the socket might work on a Socket 478 board. If it is socket 479, socket M, or any other laptop socket, you can't use it.
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