You need to look at refurbs from places like frys, outpost, compgeeks and such. Laptops like these usually come with a battery that won't hold a charge or no OS. With Windows, the OS alone is 100 bucks, so to reach your price point, no OS will be supplied.
Bob
I'm looking to buy a Laptop. Here's the guidelines...
1. I'm only going to be using it for word processing and internet surfing, really so it doesn't need to be brand new or even close. As a matter of fact my desktop is still a 733mhz, I upgraded from 128 to 600+ megs of ram a couple years ago but aside from that I'm still pretty happy with this same old rig, so as long as my laptop is comparable in speed and such to my desktop I should be fine.
2. As Thin and as Lightwieght as possible. I've already got a desktop comp that works fine for me, so the sole purpose of buying a Laptop is portability. I've handled other peoples Laptops before and alot of times they can seem too heavy/bulky to be worth the effort of lugging around, so I'd like mine to be as absolutly thin and a lightweight as possible.
3. Cheap. Ya, hehe, I need it to be pretty cheap within $200-$300 at the most. Like I said it doesn't need to be even near new, I would suggest 500mhz or so but frankly I'm not sure if that would be comparable to my desktop or not, I might not need nearly that much speed for just running MS Office and the Internet good, so I'll leave those suggestions up to those of you "in the know."
4. USB Port, and Internal Floppy and CD Rom Drives, would be nice as well. I don't like to have alot of external stuff hanging off of it.
Those are pretty much all my guidelines. I figured ebay is probably the best bet considering prices seem higher everywhere else but I checked over there just now and they don't seem to have as many laptops as I thought they would and many of them are recent enough to be in the 1Ghz range. I really don't need that fast of a laptop for what I want to do. Most likely 500mhz and under would be enough. So if anyone has any advice on any place i can get a decent laptop that fits the above it would be much appreciated.
Thanks

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