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Thinking about getting a dell m60 laptop....

post #1 of 6
3/4/08 at 1:32am
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Hello all, after about a year of having my Ibm t21 laptop, it's really falling apart, im finally ready to get another laptop, but now i want one that's fairly cheap but still works well with games. Now i dont want a really hardcore gaming laptop, that's why i was thinking about getting an m60. I found one on ebay and thought it seemed like a really great deal.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=005

so there it is, now i think that's a good deal, but i wanted to know if any of you thought differently or agreed with me. I just want to play some MMORPG games that you can download off the internet. The requirements aren't so high so i thought this would just be a great laptop to have. What do you guys think?...
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post #2 of 6
3/4/08 at 4:04am
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...Condition & Additional Information
Has a chunk of plastic missing by the pcmcia slot shown in the pictures below. Nothing internal is bad just the cosmetics of the system. .
Take that to mean that it might be a little bit 'beat-up'

Price is Ok at open bid, would not go much more.

Dell Finance had a lot of them last year at 5-700 but that is not equal to eBay.

They still have 3 pages of M60 clones or D800s only one I saw w/128MB VRAM though, but it has a 100 day Dell Warranty and a 21 day return option..

All M60's have 128MB VRAM but they are even more 'business oriented' than D800's not the best at games.

Latitude D800/Precision M60's are built to take a beating and keep on ticking though.

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RAM Memory 1GB RAM DDR @ 266Mhz
The M60's sold after April 2004 had 333MHz RAM.

It would be a top quality built system, but with the price of new LapTops so low now, you could do a lot better from a performance standpoint with your $375.
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post #3 of 6
3/4/08 at 4:08am
I owned an M60 back when they were new,and to me the quality of them was pretty disappointing,much like the same era inspiron 8600,very plasticy,creaky,flexy.......the later models of the precision line [M70,M65] are a far different beast.

The quadro FX700 graphics are not much chop by todays standard for gaming,they also ran extremely hot +90deg C.

Your better off getting something newer and cheap with a 6600/7600 nvidia or ATI X700/X1600.

I wouldn't buy that laptop for 350 USD....its too old,too slow,has obviously had at least one hard knock,and generally a bad buy IMHO.

For not much more money,I think you would get a considerably newer second hand laptop,as that ones heading for four years old and the recyclers
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post #4 of 6
3/4/08 at 9:54am
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Well. It has GOT to be better than my 8mb video card that is in my ibm t21...but if you dont think that's a very good laptop, then what do you guys recommend me buying that's in a price range of 475-575?
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post #5 of 6
3/4/08 at 11:45am
Saw the offer below from Dell:
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VOSTRO™ 1000 LAPTOP
AMD dual-core processor
Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition or Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic
1GB memory* and 80GB* hard drive
DVD+/-RW burner
6-cell battery for up to 2:57 hours of battery life*

Featured at $419
Certainly not that I would know anything about the above offer other than it shows that your budget is within 'NEW' territory.

Buying a 'used' Portable, especially 'sight-unseen' like eBay, should be approached with the greatest of caution.

Although I have had great luck with the few eBay purchases I have done, for a Laptop, I would be more comfortable looking at what might be listed in this Notebook Forum's 'for-sale' board.

Costco, (if you have a local store) would be an excellent source, as they have the most liberal return policy. You can even buy Costco online and return to local store.
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post #6 of 6
3/4/08 at 6:58pm
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ok thanks for the reply
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