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New MessageWow...Expensive Webplayer (modified 0 times) BlueAdept
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Looks like someone copied my old webplayer. I smoked mine trying to make a mod for the ethernet activity lights.

The one on ebay sold for $201.50. I think that is the highest that I have ever seen for a webplayer.

The guy probably just broke even on it though. I know on mine, I spent around $200 on finding parts and such. Too bad mine is a pile of junk now, but I had fun building it and my cdrom mod guide on my site has helped at least one person.

Still would have liked to have tried to fit xplite on a doc. Who knows maybe some day Ill get another one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2761492913&category=11188

10-30-2003 20:41:17

New MessageRE:Wow...Expensive Webplayer (modified 0 times) mbaha
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I wonder if that guy really knew what he was getting? I would see them going for $125 easy with Win98 on the doc when they where more popular, it was also the same time u-bid had them for $30-$40.

Mbaha

hack your own you will love it more
10-31-2003 15:57:38

New MessageRE:Wow...Expensive Webplayer (modified 0 times) ugmetuf
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Yea but this one had a lot of mods. I put an internal cdrom drive in it, upgraded memory, network card and hard drive. I roughly spent $175 total building it. It might have hit $200 with shipping on all the parts. I didnt make much if anything, but it will help pay my bills.
11-02-2003 08:15:45

New MessageRE:Wow...Expensive Webplayer (modified 0 times) zmoz
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Good god! Sure webplayer's are kinda cool...but why not just get a laptop for that price? A few years ago when this all started they were great, but now they are horrificly slow, the screen sucks, and so does the keyboard...
11-03-2003 22:13:38

New MessageRE:Wow...Expensive Webplayer (modified 0 times) ugmetuf
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I built it because it something to do and that only a very few people actually did anything close to what I did to it. It was a fun project. Im actually going to miss it, but I would rather be able to use it to pay my rent than to be out on the street with a webplayer.

I still think it is a good buy for $200. You wouldnt find a laptop even close to a p200 with a 6 gig hd, 128 megs of ram, network & modem and a cd-rom drive for 200 bucks.

It really isnt slow. It loads quickly and even runs office pretty good.

The screen I do agree with. I really wish it was active matrix, but just turn on the mouse trails on your mouse/rollerball and it isnt that bad.

11-03-2003 22:59:01

New MessageRE:Wow...Expensive Webplayer (modified 0 times) nleahcim
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You could unquestionably find a laptop with those features for less than that. And it would have a battery too. Anyways nice work on the virgin - looks good!
11-08-2003 00:21:58

New MessageRE:Wow...Expensive Webplayer (modified 0 times) pug_s
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I'm just curious of how you get a mini pci card and the connector for the ethernet/phone jack in the unit.
11-08-2003 18:43:15

New MessageRE:Wow...Expensive Webplayer (modified 0 times) ugmetuf
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I used the info from BlueAdepts mod on this thread.

http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Category=&Board=vwgeneral&Post=968&ID=&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0

11-10-2003 16:36:23

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