Wanted : S/H Laptop

In the light (or lack of it) my earlier post.

Any thing with a reasonable spec that will run XP or later.

 

Staples have a budget Lenovo for £276, which is a fucking bargain for the
money.

OK, it's no thinkpad, but mines been shite.

 

A colleague has just bought a budget Lenovo (G550) from Amazon for £260.
It's a superceded model, but spec is good enough to run Win 7 OK, at
least for web/mail/office- SWMBO has one and it's fine. The G560 that
replaced it is £278.

<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-note..._4?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1305753434&sr=1-4>

 

There's a bloke in Hitchin that does s/h laptops - I'll have a look for his
number.

 

I'd like a really like a Mac, but at that price that looks like a
bargain.

 

http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/products2.asp?categoryid=404

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Hm.

<Eyes used but still serviceable G4 iBook>

 

I thought they'd closed. The store certainly had. <looks>, oh, someone
bought the name.

 

My A1181 Macbook is still getting a regular flogging. I have started
running Win 7 on it in parallels and it was slowing down. This made me
happy because it gave me the excuse to buy a new one. But I threw 2gb
more ram in it and it is humming along again. It is looking like I
won't need another upgrade for at least a year. DOH!!!! They can be
had on ebay for fairly cheap.

Fraser

 

Simon Wilson spoke:
Oooh! that's a blast from the past! They had a shop in Manchester
Picadilly.

Ah - a bunch of zuyder zwillers now then!

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Fashion & the Apple effect.

 

I would guess (though I haven't looked at a bill of materials
analysis) that:
- Tablet touchscreens are significantly more expensive than cheap
laptop screen/keyboard combination
- The processors/chipsets/memory used in tablets make a significant
combination to cost (lower power/more modern architectures)
- The batteries in tablets are probably of a higher quality/more
recent design (higher energy densities)
- The tablet components are not (yet) commoditised in the way that
laptop ones are
- R&D to build a tablet significantly higher than to 'churn out
another laptop'

I'd add to the above that Apple make an industry leading margin but
tablets do seem to be more expensive to build than laptops today.

 

This. Tablets are still in their early generations, which means there's a
lot of work needed to design & test the PCB and mechanical design:
there's a lot of interesting analogue (touchscreens, audio, battery and
power management) and radio (3g, wifi and the associated aerials) stuff
to get right as well. Which is why not many manufacturers have managed to
do it right yet and they can charge a premium.

 

In a quiet voice I'm tempted to say Apple have got it pretty close to
'right' at the moment.

When I first saw an iPad I didn't understand why you'd want it. Now
it's replaced my (paper) notebook and also my laptop. Most of what I
need to do gets done on the iPad during the working day (email,
notes). It's only presentations/documents and 'SAP stuff' that drive
me to my laptop.

 

I've always understood why some people would want one, but I already
get frustrated with lack of screel estate[1] on a laptop so I can't see
me getting one.

[1] I just made that up[2]. How wanky is that?
[2] Which doesn't mean somebody else didn't first, but icba to check.

 

On 19/05/11 13:05, Stephen wrote:

Even that's probably not far away. We had a visit from Jim Snabe, who
claimed to be doing just that today.

 

I had the opposite problem in that I was getting frustrated with the
screen on my netbook.

I picked up a cheap Android tab and it has replaced PCs for just about
every task. If I need a PC for some purpose, I just open a remote
session from the tablet.

 

Speedgazebo MOTP #1 spoke:

One of our customers - (a new startup flogging surplus laptops
cheap) currently has this:

Apple MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz 2GB RAM 250GB HDD Mac OS X
v10.6 Leopard White

£469.99 inc VAT (RRP = £879)

They have stuff ranging from MSI netbooks for £120 up to an Acer
Aspire 6530G for £450, or a Macbook Core2 Duo for £840 (RRP £1299)

Their email is (web site isn't up yet)
tel 01909 473796



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< Perks up>

 

What do you use for note taking?

It's certainly taken a chunk of stuff for me. Newspapers, books, that
kind of stuff.

It's not a laptop, though, but I have (probably) slightly more complex
technical requirements.

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