Refurbished laptops?

[BigRedJeepster0381]

I'm looking into buying a used laptop, but it needs to be in great shape, have both a CDRW and DVD drive, and not cost me an arm and a leg. Does anybody have any tips (eBay doesn't seem to be the answer.) Maybe if someone here even wants to get rid of theirs and has what I'm looking for, feel free to PM me.

Thanks for your help.

P.S. I'd preferably like a HP, Dell, IBM, or Gateway.

[Glenn B]

Have you checked the Dell Refurb site?

[ZmOz]

Get a Dell. Refurbs from them are great because they come with a GREAT warranty. I've had my dell laptop for a year now, and have had two bad batteries and a bad DVD drive. None of these can be blamed on dell - I dropped the DVD drive and abused the hell out of the batteries. They replaced them right away. Only problem is trying to understand what the guy in india is talking about. :rolleyes: They sent all 3 parts to my overnight, I didn't even have to return the old ones. They also have some pretty good deals - look for sales, they have alot of them.

[BigRedJeepster0381]

Have you checked the Dell Refurb site?

Yeah...they're asking way too much for what I'm looking to spend (which is between 300-500 bucks tops).

[Glenn B]

oh. On that budget, it will likely be Used, not a Refurb. Unless you find something pretty darned old like a P3, or cheap like an old celeron.

Good luck.

[BigRedJeepster0381]

oh. On that budget, it will likely be Used, not a Refurb.

Oh yeah...wrong wording...my bad! :gag:

[Boris T]

Have you checked out Newegg.com or tigerdirect.com? Maybe overstock.com?

I would suggest a Dell, Toshiba (what I have.. picked up a used Satellite 1.033 Celeron with DVD-rom,256 megs of ram for $500) or an IBM. For the price you are looking for I doubt you will find one with a CD-R but if you find a used on with USB then pick up an external USB burner for $50-80.

T

BTW... you have a PM!

[ladywolf]

i would say tiger direct....a friend of mine picked up a new hp (the ones with the full keyboard) for i think 1200 bucks, and it even has the cd burner and everythinmg....only thing wrong was that it had one pixel burned out on the screen that i could see....thats it

[Yucca-Man]

only thing wrong was that it had one pixel burned out on the screen that i could see....thats itConsidering the number of pixels on a laptop screen that's not bad - it sucks when it's one in the middle of the screen but when you're talking about a 1024x768 monitor has 786,432 pixels...one or two dead is statistically insignificant.

[XJCasper]

Considering the price range? Nope.

Save up a few more dollars.

My Uncle picked up a Referbished labtop at Costco Business center. Has some trade in policy or something with it. I have not looked into it, so I don't understand it yet.

[RichP]

You really need to be looking at some refurbished sites that sell used. For that price range you are looking at a P3 500mhz, 128meg ram, win98.
Sams club has this one but I would spend the extra money for more memory, that shared video memory can be a killer so I would take it up to at least 512mb:
http://www.samsclub.com/eclub/main_shopping.jsp?mt=a&n=0&BV_SessionID=_SC_1628407132.1099401695_CS_&BV_EngineID=cccladcmmdgkgefcfkfcfkjdgoodfkg.0&coe=0&oidPath=0%3a-23542%3a-33761%3a-38929%3a-39012%3a868237

[XJ_ranger]

check out

www.pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com) especialy if you can format your own machine and know exactly what your looking for. most of the cost in a machine is the licence to use Windows XP or Mac OS-X... e-mail me and i can get you one cheep (XP or OS-X) reallly cheap (legit with licence and everything)

"savvy?" - Pirates of the Carribean

-XJ_Ranger
opiebennett@gmail.com

[Eagle]

http://www.dollarcomputer.com/

[BigRedJeepster0381]

I found a pretty good deal:


DELL Latitude CPi A366XT
--Pentium II 366 MHz
--64mb Ram
--6.4Gb Hard Drive
--DVD/CDRW Drive
--56k Modem
--Touchpad mouse
--Sound (1) USB Port,
--13.3" Active Matrix Display

$450 with shipping!


www.laptopdealer.com

[Kejtar]

I found a pretty good deal:


DELL Latitude CPi A366XT
--Pentium II 366 MHz
--64mb Ram
--6.4Gb Hard Drive
--DVD/CDRW Drive
--56k Modem
--Touchpad mouse
--Sound (1) USB Port,
--13.3" Active Matrix Display

$450 with shipping!


www.laptopdealer.com
I don't know if it's that good of a deal. Dell has new laptops starting at $650 http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs so if you figure that it comes with warranty and more memory and bigger HD and more memory... $450 sounds like a bit much. Oh and it looks like it has $100 mail in rebate on top of it. One more thing... if that battery is old it probably won't last you too long... look into how much will a replacement run you before buying the laptop.

[Eagle]

www.laptop.com

[RichP]

I don't know if it's that good of a deal. Dell has new laptops starting at $650 http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs so if you figure that it comes with warranty and more memory and bigger HD and more memory... $450 sounds like a bit much. Oh and it looks like it has $100 mail in rebate on top of it. One more thing... if that battery is old it probably won't last you too long... look into how much will a replacement run you before buying the laptop.

Who in their right mind wants a celeron ?? talk about a eunch...
:gag:

[red91]

Who in their right mind wants a celeron ?? talk about a eunch...
:gag:


Now you've been reduced to picking on Eunchs (SP) whats next? They are much better than Celerons. I think you owe them an apology.

[Kejtar]

Who in their right mind wants a celeron ?? talk about a eunch...
:gag:
You do have a point but I'd take the 550 (after rebate) celeron over that p2 that going for 450......

[Eagle]

Unless you only had $465 to spend ...

I believe the original question mentioned something about price being an object

[BigRedJeepster0381]

I don't know if it's that good of a deal. Dell has new laptops starting at $650...Oh and it looks like it has $100 mail in rebate on top of it.

They start at $750 before the $100 rebate.

so if you figure that it comes with warranty and more memory and bigger HD and more memory... $450 sounds like a bit much.

Man, that thing has lots of memory... :confused1 j/k!!

I don't need anything huge or special. Just something that I can play games, surf the net, and play DVDs on. Worse comes to worse, I can always add more memory manually.

[Kejtar]

They start at $750 before the $100 rebate.
That price went up cause if you look at the main page it says 650 inside it says 750 and in the morning both had 650.



Just something that I can play games, surf the net, and play DVDs on. Worse comes to worse, I can always add more memory manually.
OK, what kind of games? cause with that one that you posted about you will not be able to play almost any of the most recent games. And memory upgrades? old memory is ussually more expensive then new memory: Look at the costs of it before you spend the money on the laptop.

Lastly: do you really need a laptop? Unless you're on the road often invest money into a desktop and then for $400 you can put together a rather nice one.

[BigRedJeepster0381]

That price went up cause if you look at the main page it says 650 inside it says 750 and in the morning both had 650.

Wouldn't know...didn't see it this morning.

OK, what kind of games? cause with that one that you posted about you will not be able to play almost any of the most recent games.

I'm not into buying games for the PC...I have a PS2. I have a few games on CD-ROM that I play regularly...nothing major.

And memory upgrades? old memory is ussually more expensive then new memory: Look at the costs of it before you spend the money on the laptop.

Okay...didn't say I would need it...it's just an option.

Lastly: do you really need a laptop? Unless you're on the road often invest money into a desktop and then for $400 you can put together a rather nice one.

Yeah dude, my girlfriend lives 100 miles away and the desktop she has is junk. I commute back and forth every week; I basically live there half the week so I need something to occupy my time with her being at work and in school too.

I don't want to start something with you man...it just seems like you're getting edgy. :wierd:

[junkxj]

I am also in the market for a cheap laptop. I have been looking around for a while and have seen some good deals on ebay. I have been looking for something around a 1 gig, 256 ram,20 gig hd, cdrw/dvd. I am not too picky about the processor, but will not have a proprietory system(dell,gateway). I have found a few for around $500 on ebay. Just look alot for good deals, they are out there. Good luck
P.S. I am sure I spelled proprietory wrong. Sorry