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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 6:05 pm, Kai Hendry wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:41:01 +0100, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > If anybody knows of a second-hand laptop for around £300 that would meet > > this > > You are simply dreaming, if you think you will get that spec for £300. I didn't specify processor, amount of RAM, etc. - I'm prepared to sacrifice performance for usability. But you're right, it points towards a fairly new machine so I probably would be lucky to find it for that price... > Battery 2hours ! lol I dunno, Li-Ion battery and a reasonably power-efficient processor. I got over 2 hours out of my Dell CP (before I killed it). > Only 2nd hand PC laptops worth shooting for are thinkpads. I used to have a Thinkpad 760XD, but I didn't really get on with the nipple mouse :-( > The other laptop manufs I wouldn't trust 2nd hand. Too many cheap and > *nasty* ones out there. So speaks the rich man ;-) My Dell was OK in terms of components, and the 13.3" TFT screen was pretty decent. Hence it rather pissed me off the way the case fell to peices. Millions of transistors, hundreds of hours of design by some of the cleverest engineers in the world, and then they can manage to design a decent box to put it in!!! >:-( > Buying new gets reasonable around £600. Vaio or a thinkpad again: > http://www.dabs.com/27S1MF But I don't *have* £600! :-( Jon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hyS9eTVvFHAhe5cRAsyrAKCUqbVyKup2uZ75c/oglPI0H7cslgCeP+8f NH3nYqfknd4PODDXITalw7A= =xZiG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.