I paid $499, including S&H, for an Acer5100-3949 Aspire, refurbished
for my daughter to take to college. It had all the specs the school suggested plus more. She's very happy with it.
17" screen, 120gb hard drive, 1 gb ram, not a bad laptop for the price.
U paid $749 for my Averatec 3250 in Nov 2005.
I is more than adequate for a travel companion.
1.66GHz Intel® Core 2 Duo T5500 Centrino® Processor, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 240GB Hard Drive, Dual Layer DVD±RW Drive, Modem, Wireless 802.11abg, 17.0" LCD Display.
I love it!
i just bought my dell inspiron e1505 less than 6 months ago
a bit less than $1000
core 2 duo 1.73 mhz
2gb ddr2 ram
ATi x1400
dvd writer
100GB HD
bluetooth
windows vista premium
Best laptop I have ever owned, even better than the TX27 that I have.
Ya my friends a complete noob and did somethign to screw it up so he bouht a new one and my computer was dieing so I was like hey can I have it and he said sure so I gutted it and spent three days on the CNET forums and got it running perfectly for free. Its a Dell Inspiron 1300
- Celeron M (1.4ghz)
- 512 mb ram
- 80 gb hdd
- 8x dvd-rw drive
- 14.1 inch screen
Its not a bad laptop but it defenitly needs some upgrades but I love the price lol
I bought a Toshiba Sat A-75, which just died 5 days ago. THE WORST PC I have ever owned, it got too hot all the time, which eventually killed it. It wasn't even 3 years old yet, but it got close.
Toshiba has made, and still makes, some great laptops; I've owned mostly Toshiba, including an A135 right now, and very, very happy with them all. But they have also had a few real losers, and yours may be one of them. Do a google search, there are a few models that they are going to exceptional lengths to resolve these issues, they are repairing some of these models even years out of warranty and in a few cases just replacing them. This only applies to a few models that had clear systemic problems, but yours may be one of those. A google search will tell you pretty quickly.
And Toshiba, if you are listening: You lost a recent sale (last week) to Gateway because you switched to AMD components. I almost bought one of your laptops about a month ago until I found out it had an AMD (ATI) chipset. More recently, I've passed on several of your models that I was considering (I needed another laptop) because they had AMD CPUs. Some people may not care, but I do, and among my requirements were a Core Duo (or even Core 2 Duo) CPU and an Intel chipset, and all of your laptops I've seen lately in the price range I was looking at ($500 to $700) had AMD processor and/or chipset. In this case, it cost you the sale, I went with a Gateway (see my other post).
is eligible for a warranty extension until November, 2007 under the terms of a class-action lawsuit settlement.
I paid $999 for an Acer Laptop
Dell XPS M1710- 3 Months Old
2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo, 3 GB of RAM, 200 GB 7200RPM SATA RAID High Performance HDD, Blu Ray Drive, 512 MB Nvidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX. Good laptop over $2,000 but well worth it for the enjoyment i've had out of it
Never Have. I don't need portability Because I don't travel very much. Laptops have always been obsolete when you buy them, almost impossible to upgrade, and require lots of accessories. Printing options require added bulk. Laptops are also huge theft targets.
At home, I can have my huge graphics monitior and a computer with awesome capabilities. Fast video cards, multiple kinds of printers, scanners, awesome sound system. To me, laptops are just expensive toys that have serious limitations. If I want portable internet, there are smaller devices.
I spend WAY too much time on my desktop PC as it is. I should be outside getting some exercise, reading a book, cleaning house (ugh!), playing with my dog, etc. If I had a laptop I don't think I would ever get anything else done. Now if I used it in a business that would be a different matter. My computer is for enjoyment (LOL) only.
(I am going to hang out some clothes now and yes, I have a clothes dryer but the sun if free to use).
$800 for a refurb. But looks totally new 7322GZ Gateway on Tigerdirect.com
2.8 GHz
512 MB
80 GB hard drive
32 MB integrated video card
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