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Re: know nothing about laptops, guys help me make the right purchase?
focus people
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Re: know nothing about laptops, guys help me make the right purchase?
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is this really all you can afford? [/ QUOTE ] the Gateways seemed like a great deal I ran into while searching for a $500-600 used/refurbed laptop, more a matter of its all I really want to spend if I'm going to get a model this old. The IBM thinkpad guy I ran into while trying to sell my Dell 2405fp monitor. *Update* The Thinkpad guy has come up to $240 cash plus the IBM Thinkpad for my 1.5 yr old Dell 2405fp Guys: It's not going to be my main system.I was just going to buy the Gateway because the price was good, (He'll actually take $270. Just want something for playing online poker, websurfing, etc. A semi-disposable while in Vegas this next month and I don't want to drop the dime to get the same specs in a new model running on vista for $700+ Probably go with the gateway, thanks fellas, and to the Vaio guy; be part of the solution: sell me your Vaio for $280 so I can have something nice [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] |
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I don't think you're going to like the performance on either one of these machines. Seriously, running XP pro with 256mb RAM is going to be painful.
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the gateway is 512 RAM/ 30G HD
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the gateway is 512 RAM/ 30G HD [/ QUOTE ] Gateway wins. |
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Re: know nothing about laptops, guys help me make the right purchase?
battery life will likely suck with a P4, and the fan will run constantly. you would be much better served finding a cheap Core Duo machine. The core duo's still smoke anything AMD has and they aren't very spendy.
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Link?
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Re: know nothing about laptops, guys help me make the right purchase?
appreciate the responses guys thanks,
as I was saying "I know nothing." and have another dumb question: is it possible to plug in a seperate PC into a laptop and then use the laptop's monitor for that 2nd PC ? (I have an old tower at a friend's house I want to load some music/transfer some files etc. onto a hard drive, but have no monitor besides a laptop at that location) was hoping just to bring PC cable not an extra monitor |
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Re: know nothing about laptops, guys help me make the right purchase?
MS Paint™ version for your bemusement |
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