Recycling Rescue: Dell Inspiron 7500
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- Recycling through re-use is the best kind of recycling there is. And so it is that I did a "bad thing". If anyone noticed, they never said a word.
After a fresh installation of Windows (probably 98SE, same as it was), I plan to use it mainly as a portable DVD player. Even if at nearly 2 inches thick (!!!) it stretches the definition of "portable" a bit.
Rather surprisingly, there is no onboard Ethernet. Thus far I haven't heard the system fan run, other than briefly during POST. The "woofer" could be little more than a passive radiator. I haven't tried to find out. - Наука та технологія
Fantastic story, Bill! The adrenaline had to be pumping! I did something similar with a Tandy 1000RL many years ago when I worked at Office Depot and they ran a recycling program. I couldn't stand to see it head out to the recyclers, so out the door it went!
These Dell Inspiron 7500 series were sold as a desktop replacement notebook. The low end celeron system started at about $2199 and this particular P3 version configured with this screen, processor and such, was about a $3500 computer, give or take a couple hundred dollars. The budget line was the Inspiron 3800 series. PC Magazine tested one of these with a PIII 650 and as configured it was $4600 dollars. Not really what I would call budget oriented even for 2000.
Having been one to "cut my teeth" sorta speak, on learning how to repair laptops in general, by buying, refurbishing, and reselling Inspiron 5000 and the 8000 series on ebay 10 - 11 years ago now, I have a great amount of love for this era of Dell notebooks. These were a serious notebook IMO. Excellent 15" screens for back then. This one is configured with the SXGA screen which I always thought were very good, crisp screens.
The 5000e that I still have has a the UXGA screen in it which is capable of 1920x1080. I am pretty sure Dell had a contract with IOMEGA back then because everything they sold, laptop or desktop could come with a ZIP or Superdisk ( or even a Jazz Drive but that was pretty rare ) Yes there is an option for a DVD/CDRW drive for these 5000/75000/8000 series laptops which is what I usually installed when I would refurbish these things.
You saved a very good notebook William! You are ONE sneaky little devil :) But you know, if you did it, I am sure you are far from the first to have done that. I guess that means then, if you did go to hell for it, you would be around "like" people at least :) Take care my friend!
1080p in *_2000_* !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
UXGA is 1600 x 1200, not 1920 x 1080.
@@TCGProductions03 I've seen an iMac G3 with a 1920x1080 option. In this video ua-cam.com/video/0ru1RojxXF8/v-deo.html
*Geek Squad:* Sorry to say, we can not find your Dell Inspiron 7500 anywhere.
*Customer:* I am so sad, I had looked after it for 15 years, it has all my work on and was part of the family.
TheDutyPaid It was going to be recycled, not repaired.
In regards to the Geek Squad, I took a tour of their main facility in Brooks, KY and found out a big reason why they tend not to actually fix their project machines: each worker there has to work on each machine as fast as humanly possible to meet quotas. When they don't meet those quotas, bad things happen to them, so they tend not to do after-"fix" testing as thoroughly as they probably should.
I love these older Inspirons, they show a time when the Inspiron was actually a relatively nice line of computer and not cheap plastic junk
Every now and then too my computer fanaticism has got the better of me.
A few times I have come away from local refuse centers with a machine under my arm while making a quick exit. Last one was a first gen i5, I was willing to get caught and told off for that!
You are a brave man doing it in a shop however, good going!
I think your videos are great. Your warmth and sense of humor always come through, plus, of course, your love of all kinds of electronics. Well done, sir!
Wow ATI graphics, 1280 x 1024 panel and a DVD ROM. The owner deferentially pulled out all the stops.
I am also glad to be not the only Computer repair man who witnessed the expertise that is the sGeek squad.
"Now is it going to do what I want it to do, which is to bring up.... *_RealJokeBox?_* "
When i see machines left perfectly intact like this, i can only imagine they where either old stock that was so old that they where considered not worth the space they took up, or where used in a business and left on a laptop dock for most of their lives.
that is amazing! no dents, no cracks, and good audio too! all from 15 years ago!
I recently obtained a Compaq Armada E500 system of similar vintage (2000), it's got a 1ghz P3 with a 15" *1400x1050* display. I don't even want to imagine how much that thing cost new...
8 years of no use, amazing the battery still had some power to run it for that long.
I'm probably too young for this channel's intended demographic (18), but I love these videos. They help me sit back and relax due to their quaintness. I like watching em too when working on computer stuff, it's like having someone to "talk" to.
This channel's demographic is intended to be anyone and everyone who is interested in computers, tinkering, electronics and other random stuff. People both very young and old watch, and I'm honored that they do.
Uxwbill, I found and bought a IBM Thinkpad 365XD at a tag sale for a mere $3.00 a few weeks ago. It came with the power adapter, external floppy drive, and has Windows 98 installed. It is a very thick laptop, and is built very well and has a nice display.
I had one of those as my first laptop, wasn't a bad 'little' machine...
El Pollo Loco 51 Sweet!
+El Pollo Loco 51 I have the same laptop, except in terrible condition..
I don't say this often, but this computer has made me go wow more than a couple of times. For the time this was manufactured it was a very high spec machine. The things that most impressed me were the screen (which i noticed that on the resolution slider could go up another two lines) and the wooffer under the top cover. The owner must've spent a whole lot of money getting it, explaining the condition it is in. I'm very glad that you decided to act this way and save this computer because it if not the least, deserves to be showed to the world and it's history heard.
Mission Impossible: Rogue Bill
I was totally amazed it booted up! And it was so well cared for.... I really enjoyed this video, thanks!
Good on you for saving this; I hate it when people throw away perfectly good systems just because they're old. In the UK, you can still sell P3 laptops for decent prices; I've sold a few for £40-45, and that's before adding P&P on top. And quite a few laptop batteries still hold some kind of a charge; I've seen an 18-year-old NiMH battery still taking a charge, as well as a lot of old lithium ions that do.
you sure did find yourself a really very well working laptop, cant believe it was going to get recycled. Im impressed how well it works,
Talk about a blast from the past. I had one of these and it was awesome... 1600 x 1200 screen, dedicated replaceable video card - it was the closest thing to a desktop replacement and indeed outperformed many desktops of the day when used for gaming since it had a decent video card (GeForce 64 Meg if I remember correctly). Thanks for the memories, great video.
I have a few older laptops which look brand new several older Compaq's and a few Dells which look like they have never been used, Its really surprising. I love getting computers that have the Original OS install (besides the personal info) I got a Compaq 386 last year, just got to hooking it up and it had a Clean Compaq OEM install of Windows 3.1. Was an awesome find.
Fantastic machine! I still use an Inspiron 8200 to this date. I don't know of any other laptop that supports modernities such as a DVD burner, USB 2.0, 100Mb Ethernet, 802.11g, a 1400x1050 display, while also populating a floppy drive at the same time.
Mine died a few years ago, right after i bought it the most high end LCD panel at 1600x1200.
Great find, and that battery, I'm just speechless!!
this screen comes near the resolution of a MacBook Air (1320x765)!
That's rather sad that a $1000 laptop has the resolution of a laptop from 1999
Wow. What a find! Amazing how that laptop is still in that great of condition. Just astounding. That ending where the "tada" shutdown sound just so happened to play when after you said "thank you everyone for watching" was hilarious.
i literally stole 3 latitude cpis from my school, you're fine in my eyes
No, he didn't 'steal' it if it was meant to be recycled anyways -- just my 2 cents! Uxwbill, great find BTW.
what did you do with them
@@joemiller947 im guessing he flipped em
You did the right thing bill. I have a soft spot for dell laptops because I was raised with once, and now I have many different dell’s in my collection. Some are in better condition than others, and some have even gotten SSD treatments. (I would highly recommend you take a look at the latitude D630. It’s an excellent machine that can run quite a fair share of windows operating systems, and runs really will when it has an SSD.)
I had one of these as a kid. They were dank for their time
I still have one of these, still runs like a charm. Many years ago I updated the ram and had to have the screen replaced. Fortunately I had the in-home 3 yer warranty and the screen was replaced in my home for no charge. Runs Win 98 SE and I still pull it out to run Doom, Quake and a couple other old games. Good laptop.
Oh dear. Our own uxwbill, a common tea leaf. :P
I totally defend your taking that defenseless laptop. There's no way the idiots working for Dopey Squad would have let you walk out with it. Not in this era where blind data paranoia is rampant.
I've just finished some contract computer upgrade work for a company here in London. The upgrade involved withdrawing hardware running Windows XP and installing new hardware running Windows 7.
I asked what would happen to the "old" hardware, and was told that it was going to be reconditioned and resold. This stuff was anywhere between 2 and 10 years old, so I could just about believe what I was told.
But later on, I discovered that it was all being recycled (read: keyboards and mice get trashed, laptops get sold on eBay, desktops sent to Africa). SO, long story short. After some careful planning, I didn't have 3 USB mice, two Dell chargers and a Latitude E series port replicator, but now I do... :D
What a remarkable machine, both because of its condition, and its specifications. I'm very surprised to see a laptop from the year 2000 with a DVD drive; moreso to see one with a 1280x1024 display! That system was surely a beast in its day, and it definitely deserved a more dignified end than a Best Buy trash bin.
Matlock is what all the old computers love to play.
Hi. I really like your videos about vintage computers and laptops.
I'm a collector myself, but I'm not a professional computer technician in any way.
I have learned some very basic maintenance through disassembling and putting together numerous computers for the past 10 years or so though.
In 2006 my father got hold of an old laptop at his work that someone were planning on throwing away.
It was a Compaq Armada 1592DT with upgraded ram (32+64mb ram), 233mhz pentium 2 mmx and a 3 gb harddrive.
I'm guessing this laptop is from 1999 or something (not older than 98 atleast) and I've still got it as of today to play older games such as DOS games on and it works brilliantly, it also got a usb port and infrared .
The battery even still works fine: games like The Settlers 2 ran (although it's a few years ago) for more than 2 hours on battery(!).
you've really got an eye for computers. normally, I hate Dell like crap, but this looks like an exception. an inspiron that I used to have gave me burns on my legs and was really heavy. another one, one of them in a class of mine, almost took a piece of soon off of my finger in a few places. I'd like to see what all this is capable of. MORE VIDEOS OF THIS ONE!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!
I have a Dell Inspiron 5000 running a copy of windows 98 that's been through the ringer more than a few times, as well as a 500-600 MHz. Pentium III, and last, 127MB. of extended RAM, 640KB. of system RAM.
I would like to tell you I like your videos if there is an award like Oscar for you tube you deserve hands down
Nice 'pick' you found there.
I've got a few laptops from about 14 15 years ago, some possibly more, that have working batteries! All of my Toshiba Libretto's have functioning batteries, my nonfunctional Gateway Solo 3300 and 3350 both have batteries that hold a charge, and my Apple PowerBook 180 can still hold about 2 minutes of use out.
I'll bet this is one of those rare purchases where someone who isn't computer savvy buys a computer but needs it to be the bestest most expensive model even though they hardly use it. Like Larry the Cable guy said, you might as well buy a $2700 deck of cards
unreal!!! awesome machine bill!!
I just saved one of these from a school that was going to 'recycle' a bunch of old tech from the 90s that had been in storage.
Haven't acquired a power supply as of yet, but it's also in great physical condition. I'm hopeful that it will be functional once I get the power supply. These were amazing laptops for their time, though! This model was actually pretty high-end and not very budget friendly, however. Lol.
You care more about this computer than anyone at best buy. Don t worry about it.
That laptop works like new right out of the box.
Your videos are fun to watch. :)
Great machine Bill! Incredible condition too - here in the UK I know several people who'd still quite happily use that. A Pentium II Toshiba Satellite 4080XCDT I picked up several years ago also lacks onboard Ethernet, yet has a USB port, and features a bizarre flip-out modem connector that cannot hold a cable for its life.
Wow 2 videos in one day!
Isaac Coker those were the days..
5th! Also can't believe I get to see another one of those on Video, My grandpa owned one of those. He trashed it 6 years ago.
That is truly amazing!
you are one professional organizer
I have a bit of experience with these models (Insp. 7000/7500). Back in 2000, I was working in IT and ordered one of these machine for our web-developer. As you've no doubt figured out. Back then, the "Inspiron" line wasn't low-end yet. It took me some time to find a machine of this spec back in those days and it was VERY expensive to buy! If you've ever seen the 14.1" version, you would see that the chassis was designed for that screen. I don't believe that they sold very many of these 15" version like the one you have, which is probably why they decided to not have a separate chassis for that screen. In fact, when IBM decided to do a 15"er for their ThinkPad line, they had to create an "interposer" to account for the extra width in the chassis. Oh, by the way: if you're interested, I probably have some of the Imation disks for this drive somewhere in a box.
I scored a couple laptops a few years ago out in the parking lot of Best Buy. Struck up a conversation with an individual who was about to drop them off for recycling. Both laptops had only software related issues. I gave one to my sister who is still using it today. The other one went to a person who needed it for school.
That is so *888ing neat!
Speaking of LS-120 Drives.. The Gateway Solo 2550 P3 600MHz laptop came with one of them :D I just found one in the dumpster about 3 months ago. The Solo 2000 series are build for Company use.. No Direct3D support! Other than that a pretty solid machine!. I did have one Super Disk back in 2000 for a vocational center's computer class I was taking, oddly enough I had BeOS 5 stuff on it! Oh I miss BeOS and sadly lost the disk (BeBits is not longer around). Interesting enough both my P3 laptops have IR ports and so does my iMac 233Mhz Tray Loader... Boy you hit my geeky corner today! Thanks for the videos and a trip down memory lane :)
Jason Hicks Is this of any use to you? winworldpc.com/product/beos/5
mumbo666 Thanks. The hardest part is finding the "butter zone" for BeOS.. compatibility of parts! BeOS is made for I think Pentium 3 but never fully optimized for AMD processors. I am glad someone still has images. A few dedicated users did make BeOS 5 Personal Edition MAX Edition which has a ton of extra software and tweaks. The whole BeOS project did move to Zeta OS by yellowTAB in Germany but many controversy about its source codes! The successor of BeOS seems to be Haiku but it is slow going and developmental hell to the like of Duke Nukem Forever LOL If I remember correctly BeOS 5 was able to run on my Duron 800Mhz back in at least 2002 with 512MB RAM and a GeForce 4 440MX AGP 64MB.
I've still got an Inspiron 7000. Still works with original hard drive. Battery dead. Loaded it with DOS and 3.1 for some fun. One of the hinges is broken but everything still works great. Did the 7500 not feature a removable GPU module like the 7000?
Man listening to that old MIDI file sure brought back a few memories, as I kid I used to have great fun finding all of them on our 486SX25 and playing them back via the SoundBlaster 16 card with (single?) speed CD-ROM drive.
Of course nowadays it's all MP3 streaming, kids these days don't know they're born :P.
Once again you do amazing computer videos UXWBill. When I get time in between calls at the Help Desk for the company I work for I tend to view your videos especially on Saturdays when calls are less. Thanks for all the videos.
That is one awesome laptop. And crazily upgraded for its time, for sure! I love the style, how the floppy and optical drives are stacked atop each other.
Speaking of the floppy drive, I assume it turned out to work after all, given its presence in the Device Manager? If so, I would assume it said "disabled" in the BIOS because it's an LS-120 drive, rather than a standard floppy drive.
As for how you acquired this machine, ballsy indeed. I've found myself in a similar situation more than once, but never gave in to temptation. Being young and in university, I'm in a situation where being caught for such a misdeed could literally ruin my life, so I don't take the risk.
Wow that laptop looks like it's in good condition. Also +subbed. :D
Used Business Laptops (like Thinkpads or Latitudes) are often a good option (in Germany refurbished DELL Latitude E7440/E7450 (variants with Haswell, Haswell Refresh and Broadwell Core i3/i5/i7) ultrabooks, often even the Topnotch Core i5u and Core i7 u and even the variants with Intel 7160-AC and mobile WWAN (4G) retail for about 450-500 € , which is a very good Deal for an Ultrabook espacially for a business grade device.
Even devices without mobile Broadband (3G/4G) cards can be upgraded to make use of mobilebroadband with a DELL DW5770 HSPA+(worldwide) or a DW5808e (North America only), as all devices are equipped with the integrated antenna for celluar networks)
Older i5/i7 Latitude devices, like a latitude E6220 (Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge retail for about 100 to 200 €), a price, which is comparable to the renamed Atom devices Pentium N / Celeron N).
dat laugh. Great videos, @uxwbill!
That is one cool laptop! It is pretty amazing! It's really in impressive condition! It's a miracle the battery still hollds a little charge too! I have a Gateway Solo Pro 9300 from 2000 i think? It's battery still holds about 20 minutes of charge!
Technically, you didn't steal the laptop, as they were going to toss it anyway, so i guess it's the same as grabbing a PC that's out at the curb, only in a building :-P
Uxwbill - I would have done the exact same thing! It's not different than picking up junked computer gear from the side of the road. It is unwanted, and will be destroyed by someone else anyway.
I used to manage a repair shop we had companies pick up our stuff for free. Probably the big box stores get a few cents a pound for old electronics.
electronics usually have a ton of gold and other metals in them many ppl would be happy to get them for free
good find man. I got one of these a few years back but alas it was in the condition I would have expected a machine this old to be in. In pieces. I did however get a compaq evo series laptop however , running windows 2000 that was in awesome shape just a couple of weeks ago aside from a crack in the bottom housing , it looks in near-mint condition. pretty strange for what was a business machine. these things are usually beat to crap.
I remember a little while back when I went to Staples to drop off an irrecoverably dead computer (can't remember if it was my IBM Aptiva or iMac G3) I saw an older Dell Dimension (probably a whitebox XPS or something similar) and I was so tempted to grab it, but I didn't think that the employees there would have let me have or buy it, so I just left it. There was also a chance that it too, was irrecoverably dead.
Great find!
its a time machine notebook ... amazing find !!
I wouldn't worry about taking laptops. I know for a fact that geeksquad also takes those laptops home. My science teacher used to work there and would take recycled laptops for his classroom, all of them repaired.
They don't care at all.
I also have a friend that would go there and grabs handfuls of phones, if they still work or can be easily repaired, each phone is worth about $100.
Plenty of iPhone and even rare phones.
the battery probably had some juice because they had plugged it in at best buy. Of course they probably didn't want to touch this thing with a ten foot pole because it looked "old" so they tossed it. Good find! And that was a great song to play on the laptop's rebirth, words of wisdom.
The IBM ThinkPad 380 line had a similar configuration with the optical drive and floppy drive back in the late 90s ;) (both my 380CD and 380Z are like that)
Wow.... I would like to have such a laptop like that to experiment with it
I recently picked up a Compaq Armada 1590DMT from the goodwill, I believe its running its original operating system Windows 98 I have no idea what year the machine was manufactured I can't seem to find the date code but it has to be at least the mid to late nineties, and believe it or not the battery still holds a perfect charge, the nice thing about this machine it has a built in power inverter so no need to worry about a external power supply.
On Monday I picked up a Toshiba Satellite A100 core 2 duo also from the goodwill this machine is running Windows Vista so it's a fairly recent machine and the battery is fairly pooch, it is taking a charge but I don't know how reliable the battery will be if it does take a full charge.
I still can't believe the old machine still has a good battery and a newer machine does not.
i got an Ibm thinkpad A21m for $10 running xp prof. works like a charm
This reminds me of my dell latitude c810 I picked up at hamfest this year; I got it in full working condition for only five dollars. Even the battery still worked and gave me about 1.5 hours.
The specs are
32mb geforce 2go
512mb of pc 133
100gb western digital blue (I am thinkning of putting a pata SSD)
1.13ghz Pentium 3m
Windows XP Home Edition Sp3 (Will probably dual-boot Windows 2000 sp4)
One working new/old stock battery
The reason why the floppy drive is disabled is because the laptop has an LS-120 drive, which uses the IDE interface. They disabled the floppy so it wouldn't pop-up "Diskette drive 0 seek failure" every time it was turned on.
Hello everyone, UXWBILL here once again!
Seriously Bill, if you asked for the item that would have probably given it to you for free. It's scrap to them and you saved them from taking it to the trash. They got it because either the screen is burned out or the hard drive crashed or worse yet, it still works. I would venture to say Win98 would be the OS possible XP; could go either way. I made this post mid way into the video so I am guessing at this part...
we used to own a dell inspiron 510m and my friend owns a dell inspiron 7500 but the c and space key are missing
I have a Latitude CPi from about the same era as this, also a Pentium 3. It has Windows XP on it now, but I kind of would like to go back to 98SE which according to the sticker on the palm rest is what it came with. But I have to get my hands on an optical drive for it, I have a battery and a floppy drive now, I didn't get much with it, in fact I had to buy a power adaptor before I could even try it out. Thankfully I found an NOS Dell supply on eBay for very cheap, no suffering with cheap low grade replacements.
(I've got a frog in my throat) Brilliant! i love it!
When i was first given my inspiron 700m (in a shopping bag because it was considered junk) It had all of its rubber feet.
Today some of them are missing. Ugh!
That TV output does in fact support component video. I have an adapter that converts "TV output" to Component video (and composite on the blue connector) and S-VIDEO. It's really surprising that even my 2008 HP Compaq 6910p has one of those TV output connectors.
I found a couple sealed LS120 disks at a thift store for $2, in Kentucky of all places!
this reminds me of my Inspiron 8200 which never acted slow and was always fast until the motherboard fried one day 2 years ago, it lasted 11 1/2 years.
whoa.. I thought I got lucky. I got a HP Pavilion N3390 P3 600MHz (with all the discs, software, manuals, and the battery still works for about 2 hours) in almost the same condition until a week later there went the hinges and the cpu fan. Well needless to say, Gorilla Glue is now my favorite Super Glue and Singer All Purpose Machine Oil does wonders! Some video game console collectors say to keep their systems, like the Sega Master System, plastics and cables from becoming brittle to use a little oil on the machine once in awhile. Thus far, the superglue has held up for a year and the fan is still kicking. After applying the oil a few times, it seems to have restored some of the shine on its plastic shell :) P3 600Mhz laptops are a workhorse for DOS/Win98SE Gaming IMHO! The AGP 1x/2x is the deal maker with 4MB Video RAM plus a DVD Rom! oh 1x USB 1.1 built in too!
Im glad that someone doesnt like to see computers broken
The spaces between icons on the desktop and and the icons themselves are so big that you could think that it's actually Windows Vista with the Classic shell launched.
Bill,I'd do the same as you did.... lol got to love computers hahaha
I have a Dell Latitude C600 in similarly good condition. The battery in it is toast, but other than that it's in just as good shape as this Inspiron is.
I have a fairly modern laptop with IR data exchange. Its an HP tc4400. I use it to draw on as it has a wacom digitizer and stylus.
I think the service tag was archived and did exist. I think Dell is just now taking down service tag info for older machines ("pulling an HP" if you will) because I've noticed that info for machines that previously existed no longer exist anymore.
Every one in awhile i put in a service tag and it shows up. It was a Dimension 8100 and GX110 which are from the early 2000s
I would love to have an old laptop like this
I would have done the same thing a computer that nice doesn't deserve to be recycled.
My dad had one of those special floppy drives, and we only had one disk for it... I think they were called SuperDisk or Iomega Zip drives or something.
Great find Bill, if I tried to do that at our Best Buy store I would be in hand cuffs and thrown in the slammer...LOL
I have a Dell D600 that was given to me, the guy put in XP Pro but it is slow as molasses in January.
It only has a 30 GB hard drive and 512MB of RAM.
I would like to "down-grade" it to Win 98 because I have "Kai's Power Goo" and XP will not run it.
But when it comes to computers I was never able to install an OS, I always needed to be guided on the phone, I am too OLD to learn...LOL
I have an older Dell Latitude LM laptop (age unk) with docking station.
Is there anything it could be used for other then a door stop?
Thank-you for the time.
Older games, movies, typing, music player, etc.
This laptop i wish i had in my collection, well my restarted collection.
I have 2 Inspiron 7000 laptops they both work great. I have win 98 on one and win 95 on the other.
I managed to find an LS-120 disk. It was a Macintosh format disk, but an interesting thing I noticed about it was that it warns you on the package "do NOT format this disk". So if you're looking for an LS-120 disk to use on a PC, apparently you can't just get a Macintosh format disk and expect to be able to use it on a PC.
I have a normal (what I think is) a Mac floppy and I use it on a pc
wow, I just recently scrapped one of these laptops that had a smashed screen, interesting to see another one of these laptops on youtube
I work for Best Buy Geek Squad for one summer,when I was a freshman in High School.I was Very knowledgeable about computers hardwares.I was the only 16 years old kid in that department.I was very surprised,I knew more or about the same to all the technicians that was working full time for Best Buy Geek Squad.Geek Squad paid was like only 2 dollars more above minimum wage.Than minimum wage was $7 an hour.So yes sometimes the people's who worked for Best Buy Geek Squad is a joke as a computer Technician or a Electronic Tech.