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littleFella · 01-24-2007, 07:33 AM

Most of the time we buy what we decide we can afford at the moment.
If you can afford to throw in extra $150 to $250 (and plenty of choices in between) I would do just that, and get a brand new laptop with more power and better features. If you can wait, then do and keep an eye on sales events, look for rebates etc.

Buying a used laptop is a pretty risky proposition and I would not do it unless I knew the individual laptop pretty well. Market value of the laptop you described is no more than $150 (if that)

Also, consider these factors:

a celeron is pretty power hungry so the battery time will be significantly shorter than with centrino
laptop batteries have a certain limited life, i.e. number of charges they will take. Usually that will be around 500 times, so a two year old laptop battery will hold charge for maybe 30 minutes.
by the time you add extra memory (which is a must) you will have spent closer to what one of the brand new laptops linked to (above) will cost you, but you will still have godknowswhat.
only rich people can afford to buy garbage

good luck.

01-24-2007, 07:33 AM	#11 (permalink)
littleFella Inactive Join Date: 06-20-04 Location: Ontario Posts: 3,359 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	Most of the time we buy what we decide we can afford at the moment. If you can afford to throw in extra $150 to $250 (and plenty of choices in between) I would do just that, and get a brand new laptop with more power and better features. If you can wait, then do and keep an eye on sales events, look for rebates etc. Buying a used laptop is a pretty risky proposition and I would not do it unless I knew the individual laptop pretty well. Market value of the laptop you described is no more than $150 (if that) Also, consider these factors: a celeron is pretty power hungry so the battery time will be significantly shorter than with centrino laptop batteries have a certain limited life, i.e. number of charges they will take. Usually that will be around 500 times, so a two year old laptop battery will hold charge for maybe 30 minutes. by the time you add extra memory (which is a must) you will have spent closer to what one of the brand new laptops linked to (above) will cost you, but you will still have godknowswhat. only rich people can afford to buy garbage good luck. Last edited by littleFella : 01-24-2007 at 07:37 AM.