ot++ laptop buying advice please

[John Lawson]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:

> 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.


    Check out:

www.half.com


   This is on eBay - but it's not a bidding situation. Most of the folks 
are dealers/refurbishers, and when you find something you like, the price 
is stated, you pay for it, it arrives.

   I've purchased three laptops so far, for much the same applications as 
you are trying to fulfill, and I've been completely happy.  One laptop 
battery was crap (not rechargeable) - the seller replaced it via FedEx 
overnight. I was impressed - I bought a CDRW upgrade from her as well.


  Cheers

John

PS: Prices for what you want seem to be in the $400 - $600 range...