Description

Second-Life Laptop – HP Elitebook 8560p MAXED – i7 2nd Gen 2620M – 16GB DDR3 – NEW 500GB Samsung SSD + 500GB HDD – 15.6″ Display

The very first ‘second-life’ machine, we have an HP EliteBook 8560p. This machine was utilized by Jason of CHD as a primary laptop a few years back, and is still in excellent condition.

Maxed out RAM with G.Skill upgrade, 2 storage devices with brand new Samsung 500GB SATA SSD, and 500GB WD Black HDD secondary disk, you’ll hardly realize this machine is not brand new. 🙂

Hardware Specifications

Screen Size - 15.6" display HD (1600x900 resolutiion) with AMD Radeon 7400 series GPU

CPU – Intel i7 2nd Gen @2.7Ghz (2620M) - 4 compute threads.

RAM – 16GB DDR3 Upgraded G.Skill Dual-Channel (MAXED OUT)

Storage – 500GB SATA SSD + 500GB WD Black 7200RPM HDD Secondary Disk

• 2xUSB 3.0 SS ports + e-SATA port
  + 3xUSB 2.0 Ports

• 2x Built-In Mouse Types

• Gigabit LAN

• Secondary HDD in place of DVD-RW Drive (WD Black 500GB 7200RPM)
  + Brand New Samsung SATA SSD Primary Storage 500GB

• Fingerprint reader

• VGA + DP Display Ports out

• SD card reader
  + PC and SC Card slots

• FAST Wifi and Bluetooth
  + 56K Dial-Up Modem

• NEW battery
  + Full-size Keyboard (a few keys with stickers to replace worn off letters.) 

• Wireless and Bluetooth connectivity + Buttons to Disable Wireless

• Separate Headphone and Mic Jacks

• Pop-out light to illuminate workspace
  + HD Webcam (720p)

• Power Adapter

• HD Webcam

Software / Operating System Details

All CHD Re-builds come with LINUX installed as the OS. Generally the Linux installation will be customized Ubuntu 22.04 with Cinnamon Desktop. The OS is configured to make it an EASY SWITCH from WINDOWS.

NOTE – Many machines are now shipping with Ubuntu 24.04

All CHD Machines are professionally cleaned, upgraded, and refurbished. Every machine comes with a MINIMUM of an SSD upgrade, most have RAM upgrades as well. All Machines are INDIVIDUALLY TESTED prior to shipping for at least 8 hours, and all hardware tested.

All systems have the ‘computrace’ tracking software disabled at the BIOS level (when possible), But even if computrace is not disabled at the BIOS level, installing linux makes Computrace useless, as it relies upon Windows-based rootkit software to function. as well as ‘Intel Management Engine’ disabled at the BIOS level (when possible). (These BIOS additions allow 3rd party access to the system, and therefore have been disabled by default whenever possible. Each system’s specifications will include details where necessary.)

Ubuntu Desktop has been CUSTOMIZED to ‘feel’ like Windows, for users switching from Windows, it should be a really nice and simple switch.

**Note – At the moment CHD is utilizing either Ubuntu Desktop, Zorin OS, or PoP-OS, no matter which is utilized, they are both configured to look/feel exactly the same, with Cinnamon Desktop Environment. There are a few subtle differences, but overall they are ‘identical’. CHD is also working on customizing the default Desktop Environment, so that it looks/feels/functions like Mac. So that users can choose whether they would like a more ‘mac-like’ environment or a ‘windows-like’ environment. Default is windows-like (cinnamon) and alternative ‘mac-like’ will be either ‘ubuntu’ or ‘pop-OS’.

Theme customization for ease of use, and clean visual appeal. Also modifications to other settings for ease of function and better overall feel.

Qortal Core and Qortal UI pre-installed, along with a startup configuration for the Qortal Core, so it will start automatically, and the Qortal Core icon will show on the taskbar. Default Qortal settings.

CHD’s own ‘auto-fix-qortal’ scripts setup to run automatically both at reboot and every 5 days at 1:01 AM, to ensure your Qortal software is always at the latest release, and if it isn’t, FIXES IT FOR YOU.

Power management customization to prevent machine from ‘sleeping’ so that Qortal Core can run without issues. Also configured to ‘do nothing’ when laptop lid is closed, to allow Qortal to keep running even while screen is closed.

All purchases from CHD support Qortal Development.

Default Software Installed (much more than what is listed) (Special Requests Possible):

• Audio/video player software – VLC media player (best media player and converter that exists in CHD opinion)
• Open Office (Document, spreadsheet, database, presentation editor)
• Chromium Browser (set to default browser) –  with hardware acceleration enabled – Firefox browser also installed. – Tor and/or I2P can be installed upon request.
• GiMP image manipulation software (Photoshop alternative)
• Imagick (vector graphics editor)
• Qortal Core and Qortal UI (including ‘launchers’ in the panel and on the desktop)
• Qortal Core GUI auto-start
• Qortal Automation Scripts to automatically recover node if Qortal Core happens to fall behind in release version. Just keeping machines running should keep node always good.
• Everything you’ll need for home/office/school computer, and much more!
• Any other open source software can be installed upon request. Make request when submitting order.