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Hey, I thought Karl Rove gave all you NARN guys your own VISA platinum card that you never have to pay the bill for.... I'm confused. :-)
Posted by: RBMN at May 22, 2005 11:45 AMYabbut it's only to be used for buying influence.
Not hardware.
Posted by: mitch at May 22, 2005 11:47 AMHi Mitch,
I've got a couple options for you regarding laptops. Drop me an email and I'll fill you in.
Dave
Posted by: Dave at May 22, 2005 11:52 AMMitch,
Depending on what you get from blegging, don't waste $500 on a $500 laptop. What you can get for $500 currently will be rather (almost painfully) slow under windows xp. I'd look at spending $1000 minimum and preferably $1500. At the least, get a P4 1.X Ghz with ABSOLUTELY no less than 256 megs of ram, preferably 512. If you do some shopping around in the sunday ads, you can get a plenty capable new laptop for under $1500.
Posted by: FJBill at May 22, 2005 11:53 AMOf course, if blegging only nets you $378.32, well then yeah I understand budgetary limitations...
Posted by: FJBill at May 22, 2005 12:04 PMI have an Olivetti 286 with DOS 3.0 that still works if you plug it in, but you will need a replacement battery.
It is kind of clunky - about the size of a briefcase and weighs about 12 pounds, but it has a full-size, removable keyboard.
I paid $1000 for it in 1992. You can have it for $100 if you pick it up. Surely your readers can find $100 for you!
If you need something faster, I have a Librex 386 with Windows 3.1, but I paid $2000 for it so I can't really just GIVE it away. I'm sure I could get $500 on eBay for it, but for you, because you are nice to me, $200 firm.
Posted by: Wog at May 22, 2005 03:12 PMHi Again!
Forgot to mention, I will throw in a Racal Vadic 1200 baud external modem. $1200 new!
Posted by: wog at May 22, 2005 03:17 PMMitch,
I have an old NEC MobilePro 780 you can use "for the duration". Its a WinCE device from 2000, and if all you need it for is basic typing and modem-based connectivity its actually a pretty good unit, although you might not be able to view some web pages. Its a lot more portable than a laptop (I currently have it in my old dayrunner case, its the size of a hefty paperback) and the keyboard is nearly full-sized and of high quality, which as a touch-typist I am very picky about.
Battery is good for 2 or 3 hours, and it has a 4xAA battery expansion device as well.
When I was unemployed I'd transfer offline webpages to it and it was my "book" while running around.
Posted by: Bill Haverberg at May 22, 2005 04:21 PMA possibly decent source for used computer equipment -- I haven't used them yet, I admit, but only because I haven't pulled the trigger -- is here. Apart from that, depending on exactly what died in your laptop, an EE nerd like me might be able to take a look at it and see if it's repairable. And I won't even charge you much for labor... ;-)
Posted by: Steve Gigl at May 23, 2005 09:43 AMWhoops, forgot how your comments handle HTML. Here's the link: http://www1.umn.edu/ucs/usedcomp.php
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