Laptop Component Prices from 1999
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: $ 3714.38I 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.