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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 31/01/11 22:10, Roland Tarver wrote: >> >> Hi Folks >> >> One of my good friends is in the 3rd year of her degree and broke! Her >> laptop has just gone bang and she needs a replacement pdq (lots of >> work on at the moment). >> >> Does anyone have an older laptop, not doing much, that she could >> purchase cheaply? Or, can anyone recommend a suitable supplier. She >> only needs to use the net, write essays and store some photos. She >> lives in Plymouth. >> >> Apologies if anyone thinks this is a cheeky request! needs must... lol >> >> Many thanks >> roly :-) >> > > Have a look at tier1online.com, they have some little Dell Latitude D410's > on there for £129 [1]. They're only 12.1" notebooks (so not much bigger > than a netbook) and only have a Pentium M 1.7GHz CPU, 80GB hard drive and > 1GB Ram (and Windows XP) but something like that would probably be ideal. > > Doesn't have a CD drive though, but hey, why not bung on Ubuntu (or if it > comes to it you can probably make a bootable Windows XP USB stick to install > from or get hold of a cheap external USB DVD drive (they should boot from > USB stick/USB DVD, at least the Latitude 620, it's bigger brother did). > > In fact at that price I'd be tempted to pick one up myself if I didn't > already have my existing laptop. > > [1] http://tinyurl.com/4728zv2 > > Rob Thanks Rob. I did point her in the direction of Tierone from a previous time u recommended it. Out of interest, have you actually ever bought a computer from them? I too would definitely consider buying a new computer from them (if I needed one). Thank you :-) Best wishes roly -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq