Cheap, ligthweight laptops?
Jan 8, 2008 | 7:58 am
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Cheap, ligthweight laptops?
I'm looking for ideas on places to buy a cheap, lightweight laptop to travel with. My regular laptop is fairly heavy and I'm looking for one that will enable me to do just the basics on the road -- use MS Word, download pics, and have decent WiFi access. I don't want to deal with carrying my own laptop on some of these trips, both because of its size and because I don't want to worry about it.
Does anyone know if there's a good resource for buying laptops that corporations no longer need? I don't care if they're slightly out of date since I only need the basics. I've been searching through ebay etc. as well, but someone suggested the corporate angle so I figured I'd look into it.
Thanks!
Does anyone know if there's a good resource for buying laptops that corporations no longer need? I don't care if they're slightly out of date since I only need the basics. I've been searching through ebay etc. as well, but someone suggested the corporate angle so I figured I'd look into it.
Thanks!
Jan 8, 2008 | 8:07 am
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I'm looking for ideas on places to buy a cheap, lightweight laptop to travel with. My regular laptop is fairly heavy and I'm looking for one that will enable me to do just the basics on the road -- use MS Word, download pics, and have decent WiFi access. I don't want to deal with carrying my own laptop on some of these trips, both because of its size and because I don't want to worry about it.
Does anyone know if there's a good resource for buying laptops that corporations no longer need? I don't care if they're slightly out of date since I only need the basics. I've been searching through ebay etc. as well, but someone suggested the corporate angle so I figured I'd look into it.
Thanks!
Does anyone know if there's a good resource for buying laptops that corporations no longer need? I don't care if they're slightly out of date since I only need the basics. I've been searching through ebay etc. as well, but someone suggested the corporate angle so I figured I'd look into it.
Thanks!
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Jan 8, 2008 | 9:27 am
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Second hand corporate laptops can normally be found through ebay, or from some corporate resellers. A couple that spring to mind in the UK are "Morgan Computers" and "SterlingXS"
IBM's X series can be found cheaply enough (I paid 199 for a X31 - P1.7/40Gb/512). A very nice travel notebook.
However, you take a risk when buying second hand as you don't know what life that notebook has had (I'm still not sure on the state of the IBM on I have - Personally I'm inclined to ripe it out and start again).
I'd go with ScottC and seriously consider the EEE-PC. (dependning on your requirements). Word Processing, Web/WiFi won't tax the Asus much. Lots of picture downloading will as it has a limited solid state hard disk.
IBM's X series can be found cheaply enough (I paid 199 for a X31 - P1.7/40Gb/512). A very nice travel notebook.
However, you take a risk when buying second hand as you don't know what life that notebook has had (I'm still not sure on the state of the IBM on I have - Personally I'm inclined to ripe it out and start again).
I'd go with ScottC and seriously consider the EEE-PC. (dependning on your requirements). Word Processing, Web/WiFi won't tax the Asus much. Lots of picture downloading will as it has a limited solid state hard disk.
