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10-11-2006, 07:24 PM
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Where to buy cheap laptops
I am hoping to buy myself a cheap laptop for school by this christmas. I currently have 100 dollars saved up and will get another 100 at christmas plus possibly another 100 dollars by then. So i will have a max budget of 300 dollars.
i cannot afford a new laptop at that price but what I am looking for is a small portable laptop that will handle listening to MP3s while typing or surfing the web. Also it still needs to have some battery life(enough to get me to my next class without restarting). an old ibook g3/4 would be nice since they are nicely portable and capable of doing what i need Basically i need to know where i can get one of these, i have tried some googling to no avail.
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10-11-2006, 07:40 PM
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10-11-2006, 07:41 PM
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Google cheap laptops and browse around and see if you find anything interesting.
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10-12-2006, 10:01 AM
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For that kind of money, all you will likely find is either one too old and slow to do what you want, or one with a battery on its last legs - and new laptop batteries are over 100 bucks.
Honestly, I'd wait till you can afford more like 500 bucks, then you can get something with a fresh battery and a warranty. Right now, the Dell outlet has a few refurbished Inspiron 600m's for around $550, which is a NICE little laptop. |
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10-12-2006, 10:58 AM
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Another thing to consider, if you have a desktop system, is getting an old laptop and just using it to connect remotely to your home computer.
I have a Pentium 1 266 with 64 MB of RAM I use all the time at home and all I do with it is boot and then remote connect to my desktop. This way you don't have to worry about speed, memory, or hard drive space on your laptop. |
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10-12-2006, 04:35 PM
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There is only 2 problems with remote connecting: 1 my school network doesnt allow it, 2 my home instenet is satalitte and has a .5-1sec latency, running remotely in the web server for my ebus class is fun just typing. If saving up is really that much better i guess ill just try that and see if i can get any side jobs in the mean time.
Also the laptop I am using now is a 524 MHz celeron with 64 MB of RAM so if i can somehow setup a computer to remote connect to I may try it. |
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10-12-2006, 08:17 PM
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This is tiger directs cheapest:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...907630&CatId=0 This is neweggs cheapest: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834147163 (+$100 Mail in rebate) Also...I don't know if this is practical at all, i have never done it, and hear it is VERY hard, but have you looked a building a laptop?
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10-12-2006, 09:00 PM
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You can't save any money building a laptop. The parts will cost you more than a prebuilt machine.
That refurbished Thinkpad at Tiger is a halfway decent deal. It is NOT a powerhouse but it's a very durable and reliable laptop. I see it has a 12 month warranty, if it includes the battery I'd probably go for it. The ram and hard drive is easily upgradeable. |
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