ot++ laptop buying advice please

[Ron Hudson]

I need a really cheap place to get a laptop. It should be reasonably 
powerful (The end user will be surfing and email and light word 
processing) it must have: A non-windmodem modem (possible a pccard),
ethernet (again possibly a pc-card) a cd Writer. And the cheaper the 
better.

The end user is borrowing one of my machines and they are really hooked 
on the whole "work at home"
be an "affiliate" buy my ebook and sell it yourself thing. I would 
rather they had their *own* machine
that they could fill with spyware and junk. ;^)

I don't want to hassle with ebay.

Thanks.

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  ron.hudson at sbcglobal dot net