is it worth buying a second hand lap top
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Crispy
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Spend a £100 more and get this:
http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=3865&CategoryID=11&SubCategoryID=
http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=3865&CategoryID=11&SubCategoryID=
fractionMan
Custom Title
or this one (also 350 quid)
http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4DJS&InMerch=1
It's roughly the same spec but comes with vista rather than XP and it's not a factory refurb.
http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4DJS&InMerch=1
It's roughly the same spec but comes with vista rather than XP and it's not a factory refurb.
Stig
Condimentalist
These lot are quite cheap. I got my thinkpad here:
http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/
(...twice. once before it got burgled and once afterwards.
)
http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/
(...twice. once before it got burgled and once afterwards.
)
Crispy
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Man there's some dirt cheap stuff there if you don't mind an old-ish machine.Stig said:These lot are quite cheap. I got my thinkpad here:
http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/
(...twice. once before it got burgled and once afterwards.
dlx1
Well-Known Member
seening prices on 2nd hand were this is new -
This any good ? HP 512ram 60GB HDD blar blar
HP laptop any good?
ta - Crispy
This any good ? HP 512ram 60GB HDD blar blar
HP laptop any good?
ta - Crispy
Stig said:These lot are quite cheap. I got my thinkpad here:
http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/
(...twice. once before it got burgled and once afterwards.
*bookmarks*
Cheers me dears!
scott_forester
probably talking shite
My wife is into digital photography and she bought a re-furbished mac powerbook and it's been fine.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
longdog said:
That's one of the reasons I got an IBM Thinkpad. A brand new battery is £30 for my Thinkpad T23, as against £50 for a new battery for my wife's Toshiba Satellite 1800.
Stig said:These lot are quite cheap. I got my thinkpad here:
http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/
(...twice. once before it got burgled and once afterwards.
I use them a fair amount. You tend to get slightly old high-end stuff - it's been used at some corporate and then sold to Sterling. The mini-subs are really good value...
I have a 2nd hand lappie, left to me by a relative. It's only a 2.4 Ghz P4, has just 512M ram and an onboard ATI Radeon IGP 330M adapter, yet with it running linux it's a speed freak. If you don't want to buy extra RAM (and depending on how the current memory is provided you may even need to throw some/all of the existing memory away) its a possibility, and there are many easy to deploy distros nowadays.Crispy said:
I also dual boot with XP for the odd problem applications, but for simple email and web browsing I feel XP is overkill on a laptop.
I also agree with the battery sentiments. Be bloody careful buying 2nd hand, I bunged my old sony vaio over to my parents when I got this compaq given to me, and the Vaio's battery is knackered. Sony are talking over GBP 100 for a replacement !!!! Fuck that, I just told my parents to get a long power lead and a portable genny
i always buy lappies from fleebay, its suprising but they have good deals for lappys 
ntel Mobile Celeron 2.20GHz CPU with 256KB Cache
512MB DDR Ram (can double this easy enough for £26, buy buying a chip from eclipse-computers.co.uk, memory is dirt cheap these days)
14" XGA LCD TFT Display (1024x768)
40GB 5400RPM Hard Drive with 8MB Cache
Internal DVD-ROM/CD-ReWriter Combo Drive
(Doubles up as CD-ROM/DVD-ROM)
32MB SiS M650 Graphics Card
Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet Network Card
Integrated AC'97 56K Modem
Integrated Vinyl AC'97 Audio Card
3x USB Ports,
1x VGA Port,
1x PCMCIA Port,.
*** Complete, Boxed With Charger & Battery ***
£249.99 + £15 postage.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-Inspiron...00094062271QQcategoryZ177QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
no wifi but you can buy a USB dongle for it for a tenner to give you wifi access.
ntel Mobile Celeron 2.20GHz CPU with 256KB Cache
512MB DDR Ram (can double this easy enough for £26, buy buying a chip from eclipse-computers.co.uk, memory is dirt cheap these days)
14" XGA LCD TFT Display (1024x768)
40GB 5400RPM Hard Drive with 8MB Cache
Internal DVD-ROM/CD-ReWriter Combo Drive
(Doubles up as CD-ROM/DVD-ROM)
32MB SiS M650 Graphics Card
Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet Network Card
Integrated AC'97 56K Modem
Integrated Vinyl AC'97 Audio Card
3x USB Ports,
1x VGA Port,
1x PCMCIA Port,.
*** Complete, Boxed With Charger & Battery ***
£249.99 + £15 postage.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-Inspiron...00094062271QQcategoryZ177QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
no wifi but you can buy a USB dongle for it for a tenner to give you wifi access.
Baron Samedi
My eyes are black holes
Could I ask a question.... does on the spec have to state that it is wifi ready - as that's really important to what I want ( oris that seperate to being able to use it for internet in a house with that thing you can do multiple access from one source ? )
Bob_the_lost
Elsewhere
Wifi ready just means it's got built in wifi (or comes with a card). If you've got a wired network then it's irrelevant. If you have a wireless network then you'd either need built in or to buy a PCMIA card or USB wifi dongle. Think they're around £20.
Baron Samedi said:
for in your house youd need a wireless router first of all, basically you need to figure out if your on cable or ADSL as the connectors for those types are different. but once youve set up a wireless router youl need a USB wifi dongle for any pc or laptop that doesn't have wireless network capability.
you can get a half decent wireless router for between £40 and £60, personally ive used Linksys and Netgear for the last 11 years without any major issue on small and large scale projects. Dlink are also good but i tend to avoid them for certain ethical reasons.
Routers are here:
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productlister.aspx?n=7,21&n=84
like i said, pay attentions to what type of net connection you have, ADSL or CABLE. the difference in connector (RJ11 v RJ45) means you need to make sure you have the right router for you. Phone up your service provider and ask them which routers support there service as not all routers work with all providers, when youve got some names and model numbers, see if you can find one you like from the list i gave.
Avoid Belkin like the plague, generally cheap rubbish.
once youve done this, you can wack a USB dongle into any laptop or desktop.
£13.27 for a USB dongle inc postage http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=15006 there just generic makes but there surprisingly good from micro direct, we use several of them across a large farm house.
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