This is one of the coolest old school hps around, the hdx 18 with its huge 18.4in screen! This is a pretty high spec unit too, with the quad core Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000! It's an aging platform, but it should still do you good as a streaming box!

I got this as a fixer upper, and I can now proudly claim to have given it a new breath of life! I put in a fresh special battery and found a compatible Dell plug i had and got to work. Coupled with a 750gb hdd and upgraded ram to 4gb, its now quite capable! Sure it's not going to be doing any sort of modern gaming or watching 8k movies but as a nice music streamer or something to type on it's perfect for that!

I found this machine has amazing speakers and screen, so watching YouTube or bluray discs in the drive should be great!

To get the most out of this machine, i disabled all background tasks and ran the o&o shut up tool to disable any extra checks that big brother Microsoft wants to run all the time. And for browsing, I put on the brave browser with an h264ify extension to improve YouTube playback and have built in ad blocking and the ability to hide intrusive parts of a web page with just a click. It runs smooth and quiet at all times!

As for condition, it certainly was someone's beater beat box machine before I had it. The lid and front edge are starting to lose their chrome coat, the keyboard is missing its '-' keycap, and the left trim piece is missing But all the ports still work and the key nub still presses and recognizes fine. The battery and charger both work, but they are not original. You can expect maybe 3hrs of charge if you hypermile it. That big screen uses a lot of juice!

note the pictures show it with 6gb of ram; that was my old testing kit. the actual item will have 4gb! still plenty good on a slimmed down windows build like i've done!

Thats about all I got for this unit. If you have any questions just ask! Thanks for looking!