Re: Meanwhile, in the real world...

Have you tried Computer Trends. I bought a refurbished laptop there this
summer for under 600.00. For another 80.00 I could get a 1 year
warranty. It came with a 3 month warranty.

This machine has the Intel Celeron M chip, 256 ram, wireless/fax/network
card, Windows XP, pmcia slot, two usb connections, and a 40 gig
harddrive. They also threw in a disk of free software (Grisoft AVG etc.)
and a tiny laptop mouse.

At the time they had a smaller Compaq unit for around 400.00. It looked
a little shabby, but things turn around a lot out there.

Whoops, I just realized you wanted something under 150.00. Well you
could still check with them.

Eve

Conrad Knauer wrote:
> On 11/2/06, Mike Wilson <wilsonmr@sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>> > I'm looking for an older (e.g. PII, though Scott had mentioned that
>> > one of the tiny distros (DSL?) will work on an original Pentium, as I
>> > recall) laptop for a friend that's less than $150 (preferably less
>> > than $100) that runs ok enough for me to install a desktop distro on
>> > it for word processing, perhaps light internet use, that sort of
>> > thing...
>>
>> FWIW, some years ago I took this path to get a laptop as a gift for my
>> eldest daughter. Within a year it suffered a fatal hardware failure (the
>> display died). My impression is that laptop h/w is generally dainty and
>> short-lived, so much so that buying used does not work out well --
>> especially given the general failure of both individual and enterprise
>> resellers to accept a realistic rate of depreciation for computer h/w in
>> general.
>
> Indeed, but the problem is that the person I'm trying to get this for
> can't afford a new one (and can't really afford a $100 one, but I'm
> thinking that this will end up being a Christmas present :) and she
> has a desktop system, so I only think she'll use the laptop
> occasionally.
>
> Besides, if a $600 laptop these days were to have a lifespan of ~6
> years (and that's probably an overly generous estimate), $100 for 1 yr
> doesn't seem too unreasonable. However I will have to look very hard,
> since as you pointed out, used laptops tend to be overpriced.
>
> CK
>
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Received on Fri Nov 3 12:41:19 2006