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… when the buttons on yours stop working properly and individual parts of the display flip upside down. Imagine my surprise when I turned my phone on and everything looked jumbled. After staring at it for a few minutes I realized that it wasn’t garbled; everything was where it should be, just upside down.

That wretched phone has since been replaced by a rather nice Motorola V220 camera phone. It’s not one of the absolute latest and greatest, but it’s a damn sight better than that old Nokia 3360, which I don’t think they even admit to making anymore. The best part? Nothing is upside down.

Now I feel obligated to snap all sorts of pictures and have them sent here to the site.

It was a minor adventure, but the laptop is up and running happily. Having never cracked open a laptop before (at least not with the intentions of having it run flawlessly when I was done) I approached the project with a bit of trepidation. Luckily, it’s almost easier than building a desktop machine.

• Asus chassis with a 15.4″ SXGA screen
• Intel Pentium M clocked at 2.0ghz
• ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
• 60 gig IBM/Hitachi Travelstar 7200rpm hard drive.
• 1 gig of Mushkin 333mhz PC2700 RAM
• Interchangeable 24X/24X/8X/24X DVD+CD-RW Combo

The part list is basically the same as I posted earlier, but here are the details.

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