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I just want advice. Am I selling this thing too cheap? It has a northwood P4 core at 2.53 GHz, and 512 megs of RAM. Both RAM slots are full and it has a 40 GB hard drive.It plays DVDs and writes CDs, and the OS is XP home. The keyboard is entirely intact and the machine is in great condition for being so old. The battery lasts about 15 minutes. The hinges on lid, etc are fine. It just runs loud and hot, like a vacuum cleaner. I have too much useless crap sitting around here and I doubt I would ever use this again because I have a few other (better) laptops. (netbook and the dual-core)

 

This old thing only has USB 1.1, which totally sucks, and it has a first-gen Radeon chip. I'll bet a raspberry pi could whoop this laptop's butt in a game of Quake 3 any day.

 

Advice? Of course it has no wireless, but I would throw in a PCMCIA card for free for the guy, and maybe sell him a case for an extra $15.

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Mortem Desino

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That's about the price I would pay on Ebay for something like that. If you're selling this thing face-to-face instead of online, you could get away with charging a wee bit more just because I would pay a little more for the convenience of the transaction.

 

Personally, If I were to come across a laptop like that, or a Raspberry Pi, I would just make it a media server on my home LAN.

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Take $28. And no less. And no more (see below).

 

Be staunch. Be stolid. Be stick-to-itive. If you take just $25 I guarantee you it will be something you will regret for the rest of your life.

 

Start the bidding at $29. And then knock off $.50. And then, even if he doesn't ask for it, knock down another $.50. You will have made a wonderful deal AND you will have made friend for life!

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Yeah, it is a guy who lives below me. He doesn't currently have a computer at all, but he is taking some computer classes at a college apparently. I guess something like this that still works fine and can get online is miles better than having nothing at all.

 

The guy let me borrow some tools once or twice while I was building stuff.

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