The T-30 is a very reliable unit. It may be five years old, but it is a rugged and well made. It only allows 1 GB of memory, but is relatively fast with 1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 2.2, and 2.4 GHz models in the T-30 range.
You can buy a burner drive on eBay for $27 to $33. Case is solid. CPU fan is reliable but inexpensive to replace, as is the screen.
The weakness was the 40 GB Hitachi Deathstar hard drive, but new ones by Seagate and WD can be had for $40.
Replace the inverter for $15 and you have another five years of life.
The peach screen is usually due to a bad Ubuntu driver for that reliabel 16 MB Radeon video graphics.