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Question on selling old laptop

post #1 of 9
8/8/04 at 12:13am
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My girlfriend has an old Dell Inspiron 5000e that she wants to sell.

Its not "much" of a computer, but it is built solidly and might be something for someone looking for a laptop on the cheap.

I think its around 800mhz PIII, 12gb HD, 128MB RAM, Windows 2k (I think or 98), and a DVD (maybe DVD/CDRW) drive. 15" Screen, good condition - chasis is a compal like most older Dells.

What do you think she should ask for it?

EDIT: Also, I believe it has lots of preloaded software, like Office, etc as well.
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post #2 of 9
8/8/04 at 12:33am
Look on ebay. Systems like that seem to go anyware between $390-$500 (USD). When you decide the price, i might be interested. I get paid $400 by my school at the end of the month since i worked there all summer. I don't know if it is leagal to leave all of that software on there unless you include the cds or unless the buyer leagally owns the software already.
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post #3 of 9
8/8/04 at 12:57am
If you are selling on eBay, you have to format the HD clean (unless you are including a brand new licence for the software given as well as a CD duplicate of install files of those programs). That system can go above $400 easily on ebay. Just make sure to BS in your description as much as you can.

Example:
Computer: a P1 IBM 233mhz 128mb ram, dvd-rom
Advert: Blazing fast Pentium processor, loads of ram and imagine all the multimedia power of a DVD-Rom drive and a 14" screen with shared graphics! (sell for $200+)
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post #4 of 9
8/8/04 at 1:13am
Someone has a future in PR/Marketing
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post #5 of 9
8/8/04 at 4:23am
I see some people there who try to sell pentium 75mhz off as being "fast enough to run all of your daily applications".
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post #6 of 9
8/8/04 at 4:28am
Daily Applications:
"Resting, aka sleeping @ the loading screen"
"Viewing history, aka running MS DOS"
"Daily excercise, aka lifting the 20 lb laptop"
"Jogging, aka running to the nearest power outlet b/c you only have 2 min battery life"
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post #7 of 9
8/8/04 at 1:57pm
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Originally Posted by strekship
I see some people there who try to sell pentium 75mhz off as being "fast enough to run all of your daily applications".
I can see that happening if 233 is already a multimedia laptop. I really think a DVD-Rom is overkill on such a lappy because the video won't be smooth (especialy with 64mb ram and shared video) no mater how much you try to optimize it to be.

So Kethal, you should have NO PROBLEM passing your's off as blazing fast multimedia and productivity mobile workstation that has enough oomph to last through the years.
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post #8 of 9
8/10/04 at 3:31am
hey i have an old Compaq Armada 7770DMT 233Mhz w/ aftermarket DVD and 64Mb of ram it plays fairly well LOL, not as good as my AMD 64 3200+. It's only a little sluggish ROFLMAO
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post #9 of 9
8/10/04 at 12:53pm
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Originally Posted by bungledit
hey i have an old Compaq Armada 7770DMT 233Mhz w/ aftermarket DVD and 64Mb of ram it plays fairly well LOL, not as good as my AMD 64 3200+. It's only a little sluggish ROFLMAO
thats interesting, i played a VCD on my 233mhz MMX, 64mb and 4mb vram on an 12x dvd-rom and although the sound was good, the video, although clear (on my 17" Dell Sony Active Pixlel Matrix screen) it would get a bit choppy at some parts.
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