Best 2nd hand laptop for £200

AmDaMan · 3 Feb 2008 at 22:49

Hi, wanting to upgrade my laptop and have about £200. Don't mind a used one but want a decent reliable spec.

Been looking at X30's and T40's so far as IBM is the only brand i'm really familiar with. However I really liked the form factor of my old IBM 240x with it's small screen. So I wouldn;t mind a smaller screen either. I also think the smaller widescreen ones look good but i think i'm pushing it on my budget.

I would also like it to have a gfx with onboard ram, not shared. Quite a hard spec to meet for the price I think, but maybe theres something out there?

So:

Big or small screen, don't mind
Onboard Ram for gfx
Centrino
Wireless
Reliable

Thanks,

syke · 3 Feb 2008 at 22:57

Put a thread in the wanted section..someone must have one to offer you

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Tesla · 4 Feb 2008 at 00:00

Check out Dell Latitude D400, it's what I am posting this on now.

AmDaMan · 4 Feb 2008 at 10:15

that looks ok yeah, will look into it. In my range too.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-12-1-Dual-CoreT2130-1-86GHz-2GB-RAM-HASEE-Laptop_W0QQitemZ250210798024QQihZ015QQcategoryZ177QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Wow look at that, wish that was in my range, but who the heck are 'HASEE' ?

fred_easey · 4 Feb 2008 at 10:39

Tesla said:
Check out Dell Latitude D400, it's what I am posting this on now.

Funnily enough I upgraded from a Latitude D400 to a Vostro this very Saturday...

whitecrook · 11 Feb 2008 at 20:04

Theres a few on the bay for that price, I got a X31 for 200 (1.7P4M, 1Gbps, Wifi, 12inch and docking station, AC) Which was pretty good as all other similar deals are £225+

I'd definately be looking at the X31/32 (x41 and above probalby out the price range)

Some Dell 600s go for that price they are quite nice and small. Alternatively go for something a bit older, like a Pentium >1Ghz 3 laptop (T2x series i think)

Some laptops older ones like PII, or PIII < 1Ghz go for crazy prices (<100) If you're looking for a cheap laptop these are almost disposable, just get one, use it for 6 months - year, get another and so on.

Bonus if you already have main rig in the house and you can rdp in and just use the lappy as a display client.

AmDaMan · 11 Feb 2008 at 20:44

good reply.

I tried the EEE and it was a very nice laptop but just a bit too small i think,

Even when I had my more powerful laptop I was using the IBM 240 more! Love that laptop but it's just too under powered (looking at a 240x on the bay which is PIII 500) that's why I was interested in the X series.

I'll have another look i think. My only gripe with the X series is lack of touchpad, that would have been perfect imo.

whitecrook · 12 Feb 2008 at 19:09

trackpoint is so much better in every way. I can't think of a single reason when a trackpad would be better - can you?

plus, i only found out the other day you can use it as a button as well. And the blue button rocks for scrolling about.

I wish my main rig had a trackpoint in the keyboard.

riddlermarc · 12 Feb 2008 at 20:27

I have a T43 from work and it is pretty cool, haven't had any problems with it and the build quality is excellent. I also have a T23 (writing on it now) which cost me £60 for a PIII-1.13/768mb ram etc..