Anyone have a Laptop they want to sell?

[Laughing Gravy]

Bit of a predicament - have two kids and they share a laptop at the moment, or they did. It's packed up, not salvageable. A birthday looms so I'll be splashing out £400 plus for a new laptop but as it's a gift it's not something that will be shared.

I'm now looking for another one to replace the broken one, which was bout 4 years old Dell Inspiron. It doesn't need to be new and up to the same same spec as the new one. Still needs to be decent and run and process stuff quickly of course and likely to last for a couple of years. Currently looking on Ebay and the likes but still looking at £250 plus for something decent. Nearly got a Vaio that included the i3 chip but got outbid at the last minute (always the way).

Was hoping to pick something up for about £150.

Don't suppose anyone is about to upgrade or has one they rarely use and fancies selling it on?

If so let me know with specs and condition of LT and I may be interested.

Cheers

 

[brendy]

get onto amazon, they sometimes turn up a jewel or two. Then there is the Dell outlet, open box laptops for less than rrp. Bought quite a few from them for work and not had many issues vs number bought to be honest.

 

[bobmac]

Wasn't Mike looking into adding another for sale section for "non golfing goods" ?

 

[StrangelyBrown]

If you want something with a warranty then I would recommend getting something refurbished from the Argos eBay clearance site. I bought my last netbook there (Samsunc NC130) for about £150 and it's perfectly servicable.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Argos-Outl...id=66512606&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1513&_pgn=3

 

[Hobbit]

Got a Packard Bell netbook that has had about 3-4mths use and sat in its original box since. It was no good for processing digital photo's hence me getting a large screen laptop.

 

[Laughing Gravy]

Got a Packard Bell netbook that has had about 3-4mths use and sat in its original box since. It was no good for processing digital photo's hence me getting a large screen laptop.

Thanks Hobbit but it was a Laptop not a Netbook I wanted. Son does a fair bit of video editing and the like.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Average lifespan of a laptop is 3 to 4 years

Unless you go to Dell Outlet or similar you will be looking at a second hand one that will be a couple of years old at least, probably with a crap celeron CPU,

Unless you can get this for next to nothing, I would be wary about the second user option, if your boy uses it for video editing, it will need to be fairly beefy to cope with that, he wont be very happy with you if you present him with one that isnt upto the job.

My advise, kids have more need for a decent PC than you do, their requirements are higher. You need to get one with the new Intel I3 2nd Generation CPU in it, yes it will cost £399 But it will last him the next 5 years, unless he drops it

Buy cheap, Buy Twice is very true in computer land

Fragger

PC Engineer and PC Hero

 

[Ethan]

Buy cheap, Buy Twice is very true in computer land

Exactly.

Get a Mac.

 

[sawtooth]

Bit of a predicament - have two kids and they share a laptop at the moment, or they did. It's packed up, not salvageable. A birthday looms so I'll be splashing out £400 plus for a new laptop but as it's a gift it's not something that will be shared.

I'm now looking for another one to replace the broken one, which was bout 4 years old Dell Inspiron. It doesn't need to be new and up to the same same spec as the new one. Still needs to be decent and run and process stuff quickly of course and likely to last for a couple of years. Currently looking on Ebay and the likes but still looking at £250 plus for something decent. Nearly got a Vaio that included the i3 chip but got outbid at the last minute (always the way).

Was hoping to pick something up for about £150.

Don't suppose anyone is about to upgrade or has one they rarely use and fancies selling it on?

If so let me know with specs and condition of LT and I may be interested.

Cheers

My advice, get a secondhand Dell laptop on Ebay from a reputable dealer for about £150-£200 cant go wrong. I have a couple that the kids use and every so often I just use the Dell OEM XP disk and reinstall , then they go and load all their c**p on them again

Solid build quality and spares are easy to come by.

 

[RichardC]

Exactly.

Get a Mac.

100% agree.

Best thing I ever done.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Exactly.

Get a Mac.

But then you are paying twice the price, for a machine that wont last any longer than a decent spec windows machine.

I could spend £850 on a basic Macbook Air ( without any extras) and it will last me 5 years, I can spend £399 on a Dell Inspiron I3 and get the same use out of it.

Im not knocking Macs, but they are very expensive when all you want to do is surf the net, check your emails and slap on some holiday photos and therefore overkill for most people

Fragger