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Dell C400 used, or Averatec new or refurb?

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mikeford

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I want a nice little system for a long summer trip (2 weeks), and then plan to pass it on to my son for high school (he has laptop based classes and currently lugs an old ibm 770).

Stuff with a 12" screen looks so handy for travel, but tends to have a real premium price compared to 15.4" stuff my son prefers for games and school.

We like Dell and Ibm, wife and son are touchpoint junkies, but for very little more money the Averatec is a MUCH more powerfull system. Add to that Dell has some killer deals on 15" systems like the B130 at $499 brand new.
 
i say go with the b130, i have owned the averatec 3150, and it withstood a deployment to afghansitan, my brother has the 3120 and it withstood 8 months in Iraq. but for the price and warranty (and i believe it comes with 1gb of ram too) i would go for the dell, but thats just me.
 
The Dell B130 only has 256MB, so I'd probably bump that up to at least 512MB. It's $50 at Dell for a stick of 512MB or you can spend $30 at Newegg and just get an additional 256MB. I'd probably pay Dell to get the one stick of 512MB so you can upgrade later on without wasting any money. Your son also won't be playing any games on it due to the integrated graphics and Celeron processor, but that may be a good thing. But for $550, the Dell should be a great web surfing, paper writing laptop that should last for at least a couple years.
 
well they had a b130 with 1gb of ram earlier, gone now. also had the i think 745 processor.

new deal of the day is:

Inspiron E1405
Intel® Core? processor DUO T2050 (2MB Cache/1.60GHz/533MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows® XP Home
100GB1 Sata Hard Drive
1GB1 DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
1Yr Ltd Warranty2, 1Yr Mail-In Service, and 1Yr HW Warranty2 Support


Featured at
$699

 
Trouble with the Dell deal is the 7/17 ship date, only leaves a week before I travel and that is zero time to resolve any trouble or delay.

Guess I will watch the Dell Deals a couple more days, see what turns up locally. Used stuff seems like a poor value right now with so many $500 and less deals showing up on new laptops.
 
Two deals are looking very good, Toshiba from Compusa or Office Depot ($399 and $449 amir), or talked to a friend who has some IBM 600x for about $150. Older and slower than I would really like at 450 mhz, but P3 mobile chips, add a new battery and even a larger hard drive and its still very easy on the wallet.
 
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