The Latitude D400 works with a cheap replacement motherboard. It's not that powerful with a 1.3ghz Pentium M but it's got 1gb RAM so that helps. I was rather miffed to find it uses a weird hard drive connector which requires an adapter but fortunately I found one in one of my scrap ones. I popped in a spare 40gb hard drive with Ubuntu 8.10 installed and it booted right up. Everything works fine.
Dell laptops are built like sandwiches, you dismantle them layer by layer until you get to the juicy goodness of the motherboard.
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