Was just reading on Blog-Ed about how Joe has become a finalist in the Guardian competition to make as much money as you can on eBay. What he’s doing is buying broken laptops and doing them up and then selling them again. You can check out how it’s going on Laptop Scrapyard.
When I get round to it, I’ll back up this Vaio at work and if you can sort out whatever’s wrong with the power circuitry then you can have it.