Very cheap notebooks---do they exist online?

You are better off sticking with brick and mortar stores for really cheap laptops.

the B130 can run pretty cheap and in many cases into the 400's

Check out some basic second hand lappie's you can get the bare basic system for next to nix now - as long as it has a pentium 4-M CPU he should get some battery life - try and avoid Celeron processers as they suck battery power, but then again they are cheaper!!!

go with dell, this is a good reason why. check out the dell outlet when you can.

http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineS...=22&l=en&s=dfh

I just bought an IBM X20 on ebay for $200 and absolutely love it. It is very small, light, and does everything I ask it to do while I'm at school

Acer = Cheap

Yeah,

I have seen a few Acer's at Wal-Mart the other day for like $400.....

HP has sales now....14' lappy for $399

Not to troll but I saw a bunch of cheap Acer's given out to a college class around where I live. They don't last long. My neighbors motherboard went out within a few months and numerous others failed too.

be careful you get what you pay for...

My little brother just got an acer for 400 dollars and Im impressed with it. General windows performance is nearly the same as my xps. Screen has a nice glossy finish and it feels pretty sturdy in my hands.

Acer's aren't bad, per se. You just get what ya' pay for

true. could have happened with any company... The hundreds of dell desktops they recently leased for my college's labs (cheaply I might add) have been burning through motherboards left and right... Damn you should hear when one of those optiplex's heat up and the fan goes on high.... It is literally as loud as my vaccuum at home. Makes the lab quite unproductive at times.

I think it partly has to matter with how the laptop (system) is engineered. The more you have to build and the lower the final system cost, the more you tend to cut corners and costs a bit here and there (design, testing, etc...) resulting in crappier quality. Parts for mass produced systems will be plentiful and cheaper so replacement part costs will be lower as well.

In contrast, a more expensive laptop has a reason to be built better. There is less demand compared to more budget friendly systems, there tends to be less parts available (xps gen1/9100 for example, and buildwise that thing was a tank), and they tend to generate more heat, requiring higher quality designs to accomodate higher end needs making it more cost effective to build with a higher quality level to avoid future expenditures (warranty claims).

Anyway, just like we all said... ya get what you pay for...

I did show my buddy in the IT dept at my school my 1710 and he had to grab a tissue to wipe the drool away... He is going to request a M90 with the 2500 card cause I found a way for him to "justify" the expenditure He "needs" a mobile high end platform with the capabilities of fully testing and running all software the campus currently licenses including cad, adobe, bryce, and the new Video Game Design Degree Program

14 foot laptops eh?


Sorry just had to do it.

^^

lol

hey the 50' woman needs internet too...

only 50'? i mean, i'd say our converting is about 1:12, so should she be closer to say 60'?

well you know laptops are getting bigger.... maybe she ordered the equivalent 20" model.... lmfao

why pay $399 when you can pay $199

http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineS...=22&l=en&s=dfh

how did you find that. the lowest i found was 399 for a scratch and dent