Looking For Purchasing Suggestions

[megamurph]

Is it worthwhile to buy this laptop? A co-worker is selling this below. He has upgraded to the Pentium 4. Can anyone give me some suggestions on decent laptops. I like to game and burn music cds more than anything else. I'm looking into going wireless, so a portable laptop would be great.

Thanks

Toshiba Satelite A65-S126 Laptop

$900 Entire Package (excluding upgrade options where noted)

•2.4GHz P4 processor, 533MHz fsb, 1MB L2 cache
•512MB PC2700DDR RAM (upgradable to 1.25GB)
•15” TFT active-matrix display
•60GB HDD
•3 USB 2.0 ports
•DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive (DVD=8X, CD=24X12x24)
•Built in super-G WIFI wireless network, 802.11b/g
•10/100Mbit wired LAN
•56K V.92 data/fax modem
•Onboard audio, stereo speakers, headphone jack, volume control
•Lithium-ion battery
•1 type I/II PCMCIA slot
•1 parallel port
•64MB (shared) Radeon 7000 graphics card
•1 VGA 15 pin video port (supports dual monitor display)
•1 4 pin S-Video port (supports dual monitor display)
•7.7 lbs 2.1” thin
•Carrying case
•Home charger kit
•Touchpad with vertical scroll optoion
•Approximately 6 month manufacturers warranty left (Copy of receipt included)
•Optional mini wireless mouse with auto off feature to save batteries (add $40)
•Optional external USB bootable floppy drive (add $40)
•Optional Travel Charger Kit (car, train, plane, home, other laptops, ect…)(add $100)
•Win XP Home w/SP2, Office tools Std., Norton AV, Zone Alarm firewall, Win DVD creator and many more included in base price (upgrade to Win XP Pro add $100)

 

[jnev_89]

you can do much better. check out dell during one of their $750 off sales. just a few days ago they had a 35% off sale with their laptops.

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

You can do almost as good for a new laptop, wouldnt recomend a dell though.

That laptop is only 1190$ in Canada, so you should be able to find a NEW one at his price.

Remeber that his battery is also probolly crap

http://ca.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=3064059/search=Toshiba%20Satellite%20A65

 

[megamurph]

Very cool advice. Thanks for the advice. Good thing you pointed out what the condition of the battery would be like.

Thanks

 

[aspire]

look in the sunday adds you can usually find some pretty killer deals

 

[pctech86]

Yeah, I sold my laptop for 600 bucks, it had the same specs. I thought that I made some money off it Anyways, I would go with hp if you were going with a new one

 

[bonecrusher]

pm me if interested

 

[aspire]

wait are you the friend/ co-worker?

 

[megamurph]

My co-worker upgraded from a Celeron to the P4 in the laptop now. Anyway, with the price he has asked for, I've decided to do some more research for a good laptop. Thanks everyone...