I've been trying to buy a laptop for my young brother to tech him how
to use a computer.
where do I go for these laptops offered a very low cost or as low as
free?
Thanks
Yem

If you knew, would you tell everyone else ?.


<atageagle******.com> wrote in message
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> I've been trying to buy a laptop for my young brother to tech him how
> to use a computer.
> where do I go for these laptops offered a very low cost or as low as
> free?
> Thanks
> Yem
>

atageagle******.com wrote:
>
> I've been trying to buy a laptop for my young brother to tech him how
> to use a computer.

Afterwards, maybe he can tech you how to spell! <g>

(Sorry, I couldn't resist!)

Notan

E-Bay; you can get plenty of laptops under $100, under $50, even under
$30. But you have to know what you are buying, and don't expect a Core
2 Duo for $30, it ain't going to happen. Laptops under $100 are
generally Pentium or Pentium II, AT BEST, or they are broken in some way.

But you can get some useable if dated older laptops at those prices.


atageagle******.com wrote:
> I've been trying to buy a laptop for my young brother to tech him how
> to use a computer.
> where do I go for these laptops offered a very low cost or as low as
> free?
> Thanks
> Yem
>

Here's one outfit that resells used computers. You might find suitable
model here. They give a 3 day return for any reason, 30 day warranty.
http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/s...p?bin_id=world

Val

>
> atageagle******.com wrote:
>> I've been trying to buy a laptop for my young brother to tech him how
>> to use a computer.
>> where do I go for these laptops offered a very low cost or as low as
>> free?
>> Thanks
>> Yem
>>

Barry Watzman wrote:
> E-Bay; you can get plenty of laptops under $100, under $50, even under
> $30. But you have to know what you are buying, and don't expect a Core
> 2 Duo for $30, it ain't going to happen. Laptops under $100 are
> generally Pentium or Pentium II, AT BEST, or they are broken in some way.
>

Have you ever personally gotten a working laptop from ebay with a power
supply for under $60 including shipping? (Without first buying one or
more broken ones in the attempt?)

Re: "Have you ever personally gotten a working laptop from ebay with a
power supply for under $60 including shipping? (Without first buying
one or more broken ones in the attempt?)"

Oh, yes. I've bought about 100 laptops in the past year. A few weeks
ago I got three 4020CDT's ... which are Pentium II laptops with XGA TFT
active matrix screens that often sell for about $120 [each] ... for $32
+ $32 shipping ($64 total for all 3). The description not withstanding,
all 3 were perfect and complete except for no hard drive (I got three 6
gig hard drives for $14 each ... more, actually, than the $10 each I
paid for the laptops). I'm not making this up:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=250042890666

And I do it a lot, often. The stuff is out there, you just have to look
and also you have to know what this stuff is, which is why I only buy
Toshiba. I know almost every Toshiba model, and what to look for. And
because I repair these, I have a "bone pile" of spare parts. I couldn't
begin to do this with another make (IBM, Sony, Gateway, etc.) without a
lot of effort. But if you know what you are doing, the stuff is
available. Perhaps not immediately, it's basically a "hunt", and yes,
you will pick up a few lemons along the way, but with patience you can
find and get the deals.

[You also have to know how to buy on E-Bay, generally. How to judge a
seller and a product, and how to spot most of the crap products and crap
sellers. It comes with time and experience. Note, I'm just a private
individual, not a full-time business. My rating is over 700, and I've
been on E-Bay for almost a decade.]

It really depends what your thinking when you say laptop, are you
willing to do some patching up? or do you want something that runs
out of the box?

Here's a link to cheap running laptops
for under $200
http://cheap-laptop.us/