Re: Recommend small, 2-3 year old laptop
- From: "Alex Quant" <alexqspam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:53:53 +0100
"Alex Quant" <alexqspam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "CM" <chris.geller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Hi
> >
> > I wondered if anyone could recommend an out of production model that I
> > could pick up cheap on Ebay.
> >
> > As you can imagine, it's hard to find out info about the old ones, as
> > Google searches bring up all the new ones.
> >
> > Anyway. What I'm after is a small laptop, maybe a footprint of 12
> > inches by 7, or so. And fairly thin. Processor about 1Ghz, and
> > preferably quiet. Aim to spend about £200
> >
> > Can anyone think of something like this that might be going cheap
> > these days?
>
> For £200 you'll be lucky to find a small/thin/light laptop with a 1GHz
> processor, especially if you want something with an optical drive (often
> external with a small laptop), a decent hard-drive (about 20GB) and memory
> (at least 192MB). Something like a well specced IBM Thinkpad 570 series
> (500MHz), Toshiba Portege 3400 series (600 or 700MHz), or perhaps a Compaq
> M300 (600MHz) should come into your budget via eBay. If you do opt for a
> Portege 3400 series, watch out for the installed memory, because upgrading
> thme can be a pain as they use micro-SODIMM memory which is hard to find
> cheaply.
>
> You did miss a very tasty Toshiba Portege 4010 from ITDealers yesterday
with
> a 933MHz processor and builtin DVD drive for about £210 inc. vat ex.
> postage. Might be worth approaching them to see if they have another
hidden
> away somewhere? :)
Here is the Portege 4010 in question - a real bargain it was!
www.itdealers.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/27_41/products_id/471
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