Do you think this is good buy?

Did you pay for it already or are you planning to buy or what?

 

Buy it at the right time and you can get a $400-500 brand new Dell laptop. I personally never buy refurb'd laptops ...

 

I bought a refurb once. It's old as dirt now. Stupid CMOS battery holder busted right off the mobo...try soldering that back on!! Stooopid Stinkpad!


I remember the Waldomart deal. I found this on another forum mentioning the same thing...funny!!!!!!!!

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=30569

 

Nah, I don't think this is actually refurbished, as in fixed. I think they meant it was just fixed up (formatted and defragmented) as it was a company's laptop.



Oh man I wish they had an upgrade option for dual processors.

 

you can sell this laptop after 2 months for 400$, so yeah it's good

 

How did you manage 632 MB of RAM.

I personally wouldnt buy that laptop.
Laptops are not as fast as desktops and they tend to get slower with time. Buying an old P4 laptop is not really a bright idea.

 

Actually my laptop is faster than my desktop computer.... 3 ghz depends on how much you're willing to pay though. Looking at the specs at that laptop.. its.... very.. slow..

 

funny how bios posts weird memory allocations...512+128= 640 not 632

I think all computers (running windows) slow over time.

ALSO, laptops often use slower RPM hard drives. I guarantee you that the MASSIVE 40GB is only 5400rpm.

Then there's the type of memory used...

 

Just saw some good deals on PCs at Cyber Power PC, just wish the processors were better. The builds are very nice in their PCs, except the processors. Guess that's why they're so cheap, but anything 1gHz+ is fast enough/to me.

 

Just received the laptop today.
I like it. I just have to get the network card working. I don't think the fools installed it right.

In my control panel it says a network cable is unplugged...that doesn't sound right.

Bah. But it's a fast and good laptop don't get me wrong...but I need the net on this damn thing!

 

"network cable"...isn't that the Ethernet port?

LT's show them separately in network conns

 

That's what I thought. I don't know...I paid for the wireless network card, but there is no wireless network card attached to the unit, so I guess it's somehow INSIDE?

I cannot use it though! I don't know how to, too!

 

seems like you got a good deal, hope every thing works fine

 

yes, they are often internal. Mine was on my Thinkpad but then it crapped out and then I just bought a PCI wifi card.

try going to 'my computer', 'properties', 'hardware', 'device manager' and see what you can see in the way of a wifi thingy

if you see it and it says it's working properly, maybe you need a piece of SW in order to direct it.

 

I've been looking into a new laptop as well. Best I have seen is a Dell from BestBuy that sells for $499. No upgrading needed if you purchases this one.

Sorry if this was posted after you had already bought the one you were looking at.

 

Replying after 3 years?

I am pretty sure he bought the laptop.
Maybe you are suggesting an upgrade to the laptop he bought 3 years ago.

 

I would buy a netbook.