I want to buy a laptop for a stupidly low price

Jimbob1989

Jimbob1989

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I want to get a laptop to play around with, upgrading myself but i want to pay as little as possible. And i mean under £100. I bet no one can do that.

Jimbob
 
dont we all. There is a computer fair in my area every 3 months I think. Tey are cheap but there full of rubbish.

Jimbob
 
Yep this forum was built for one reason and one reason only.
To be big enough so that one day some really big computer company says to the admins, here you can have this obsolete laptop we have lying around.....
I think we have one hell of a long wait on our hands....
 
I can get laptops for about £60 UK at this fair but they have things like 6MB HD's, 600Mhz. Not good enough.

Jimbob
 
wow, that sucks. just buy an external hard drive, they're pretty cheap. My dad got a free laptop that he doesn't use. It's a pentuim...just a pentium.
 
I might buy a second hand laptop with enough hd space to install the operating system, then use an external hard drive. Then i can move the server around.

Jimbob
 
Praetor said:
They have 600Mhz portables with 6MB harddrives. Incredible. Maybe a PDA ... but not a laptop.
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he must be mistaken writing 6MB, it should be 6GB, as fastest processor in PDA is 400Mhz X-Scale Intel Armstrong Processor that I am using in Compaq iPAQ, I havent looked again into PDA specs after that I bought mine, as if there are new specs (which I believe wont be as HP's newest with Bluetooth Integrated came with same processor) i'll appreciate your time for giving me information.
 
ian said:
I assume you mean 6GB
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jimbob1989 said:
I dont, they have 6MB HD'd most of them, there absolute trash.
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One would think so eh? But stubborn-ness or the power of "loss-of-face" can lead to quite incredible results

as fastest processor in PDA is 400Mhz X-Scale Intel Armstrong Processor that I am using in Compaq iPAQ
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Yes indeed and they wouldnt be tossing 600Mhz PDAs out for junksales too (if they existed)
 
there are websites out there that sell replacement/upgrade parts for laptops, but they are pretty expencive parts, and if you want to build a laptop, it might not be worth it. but if you can get a REALLY REALLY REALLY cheap laptop, get it, if the MoBo doesn't fry, and the LCD continues to work, and the keyboard/mouse work, then it might be worth buying. You can replace the HD and processor.

laptops don't depreciate in value very much, buying used laptops isn't cheap either.

the only laptop i have is a 486 w/ a greyscale screen, and a .6 GB HD. and a completly uselessly dead battery, but i still use it.

I never really went to any of those "computer flea's" or anything like that, but people i know who did, they usually last about 6 months, then something frys, like my friends PS stopped working, so i tossed in a power supply, and he got a few more months out of it before he got rid of it. (the power supply was too big for the case though :D )

Try government auctions, i know people who go to a post office auction, and get some pretty good stuff for rediculously low prices. and some town/city halls upgrade their computers alot, and sell their old ones rediclously cheap.
 
or u could go to the computer recycling centers and beg for one. you would be completely blown away if you knew how many freakin computers they have. they filled a good sized warehouse to the top with them and they even overflow outside and its not all junk. people toss perfectly good computers just cause theyre getting a slight upgrade. they even make you pay for dropping them off cuz they got so godam many of them and they are toxic(the monitors).
anyways i've done my rambling for today:)
-smadge
 
Gosh i forgot about that stuff... too bad there arent any computer recycling centres around here :(
 
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