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Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 Used Laptop: Good Deal ?

by jrod2000 Nov 8, 2004 2:24PM PST

I am thinking about buying a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 (Pentium 4-M, 512 MB), the guy is selling it for $500, which seems pretty low, but I just read the user comments on the CNET review, and it has a 82% negative rating. So I am assuming the seller has had some problems with it and there is something wrong with the laptop. He says he only wants cash and that the laptop is "sold as is", which doesn't sound too good. Any Opinions?

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 Used Laptop: Good Deal ?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 8, 2004 9:41PM PST

When I sell "things" I want cash and all of them are as-is or curb-side warranty. Once you walk off my curb, it's yours. I don't see anything wrong with that since the price is spot on with many P3's I see at other places such as compgeeks.com

The unhappy item could be the lackluster battery life. Some didn't understand that some laptops are desktop replacements and don't supply many hours of battery time. Such misunderstandings tend to skew the happiness numbers.

Bob

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 Used Laptop: Good Deal ?
by KenSanramon Nov 9, 2004 2:56AM PST

If you watch the retail sales or buy online and take advantage of the $100 custom order rebate and student discount 6%, etc (and order only 256mb RAM and order more later yourself for less) you can get some great brand new notebooks now for the $1000 range or even less.

They are selling Celeron M notebooks now (and Celeron Pentium 4M's) which I don't recommend if you can pay a bit more but they will be brand new, have all new components and it will have a 1 year warranty.

Look at these options first before you buy any older notebook (that you don't know the history on just a used car) as an older notebook is already obsolete in many ways (older notebooks have smaller hard drives, slower system RAM, slower cpus, the LCD is likely smaller, etc).

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