My brothers dad wants a laptop for ebay stuff and mail probably. Anyone know of a cheap laptop for this that can take broadband internet (i duno if lappys need special modems or not or bits inside) i presume modems from isps will be fine tho yeah i mean lappys usually have lan ports on them dont they?
Cheap laptops question
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Perhaps half brother or step brother?
The Dell Vostro's look a great price, mates used Celeron and once you put AV on it slows down, the Vostro's are dual core Core 2 so plenty of power, in a laptop you want lots of RAM.
No point getting a 1GB RAM Celeron @ £300, when you can get a 2GB RAM dual Core Duo 2 at £330!
Noticed you put a wanted post, personally I wouldn't buy a second hand laptop, the lithium battery will probably be on it's way out, and they're pretty expensive to replace- for a budget, used old laptop not worth it.
The Dell Vostro's look a great price, mates used Celeron and once you put AV on it slows down, the Vostro's are dual core Core 2 so plenty of power, in a laptop you want lots of RAM.
No point getting a 1GB RAM Celeron @ £300, when you can get a 2GB RAM dual Core Duo 2 at £330!
Noticed you put a wanted post, personally I wouldn't buy a second hand laptop, the lithium battery will probably be on it's way out, and they're pretty expensive to replace- for a budget, used old laptop not worth it.
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How cheap do you want to go. I set up one of those Free laptops you get with the A.O.L. contract the other week. Tied into an 18 month contract of course but the laptop is brand new & Free. Works ok for browsing/ebay/email etc The User seems happy enough with it.
Not sure if he wants such a long contract, and lookin to get a used laptop maybe for say 50-100 quid tho i really duno how much he wants to spend for just a 1.5ghz somit or other with a gig or ram just somit good enough for web browsing/ebay/mail usage as i said before. Oh and 1024x display or somit.
Surely the battery doesnt matter if its for mains powered 90% of the time i duno if he would use it for mobility purposes.
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Surely the battery doesnt matter if its for mains powered 90% of the time i duno if he would use it for mobility purposes.
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How come tbh, mine's fine for browsing with xp and 192 mb of ram, and a p3 600 mhz cpu, I watch anime in bed all the time with it and by using low res apps ( IE6, miranda IM, VLC, Foobar2000, office 97/2000, etc...) it's perfectly usable.
Mums got a pentium M 1.5 mhz ( equiv to a 3 ghz p4/ 3200+ barton) 512 mb, rad 9000 and it's smooth as silk with normall apps atm as it's not filled with rubbish.
1GB is nice offcourse, but not essential at all, learn to use ram a bit more sparengly and shut down stuff you don't need and it's smooth as silk. But 512 for general use is same as 1gb for gaming, it can be annoying, but it's perfectly managble if you know how, hell I've played bf2 for a year on 1gb ram, all I did was drop texture details from high to medium, and it made it playable.
Mums got a pentium M 1.5 mhz ( equiv to a 3 ghz p4/ 3200+ barton) 512 mb, rad 9000 and it's smooth as silk with normall apps atm as it's not filled with rubbish.
1GB is nice offcourse, but not essential at all, learn to use ram a bit more sparengly and shut down stuff you don't need and it's smooth as silk. But 512 for general use is same as 1gb for gaming, it can be annoying, but it's perfectly managble if you know how, hell I've played bf2 for a year on 1gb ram, all I did was drop texture details from high to medium, and it made it playable.
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You don't need much, but a laptop with plenty of RAM makes it feel snappier. Windows just in desktop uses 300MB. My HTPC had 1GB and usually close or just over memory usage if having a few Opera Windows open, plus the usual applications in the background (email, photoshop) You don't want to keep on closing apps because running out of RAM.
Cost of RAM is low so no point getting a "low end" laptop tbh...ie sub 1ghz Celeron. I doubt that machine with 192MB is smooth running.
Cost of RAM is low so no point getting a "low end" laptop tbh...ie sub 1ghz Celeron. I doubt that machine with 192MB is smooth running.