Best Place To Get A Solid, Very Cheap, Laptop?

rOoKe

Hey,
I'm lookin for a laptop that's very basic and solid, but cheap at the same time.

Something like this:
1.2 GHz
40 Gig hdd
256 RAM
CD-R, maybe DVD player
Doesn't need a good video card, wont be using this for games
Need a decent sound card, for listening to music

and I'm looking for this to be around 600-800 bucks, hopefully new.

Possible?

Mullet

Try bestbuy..... They sell cheap crap....I mean solid and very cheap laptops <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

taboofires

Not going to happen. You aren't going to get a half decent laptop for less than about $1200, even without a decent vidcard.

You won't any time in the near future, either, unless some miracle happens and more than 3-4 companies are producing them, and you can actually build your own from parts... don't hold your breathe. Modern laptops are an engineering nightmare.

In terms of things used: you might be able to get something close, but it will have a smaller HD, possible a CD-R but very unlikely a DVD player, and most likely a slower CPU.

Don't worry about the sound card. The on-board stuff for any semi-modern mobo is plenty good enough for anything short of 3d positional sound.

CplDavis

If there is one of those German stores near you (there is one in my home town in the US)

its called Aldies (<== spelling?)

anywaays they sell everything including cheap but pretty good laptops from time to time. but they dont get in lap top supllies very often and when they do people in germany (according to my friend from there) like camped out over night to get them lol.

Zig

my dad got a craptop from Dell... i'm tellin ya, man... you want at least half a gig of good ram, and 2.4 or more processing..

otherwise the winxp gets bogged down majorly..

Cr-ck

never get a cheap laptop. remember YOU cant upgrade them.

Mullet

Just dont get a laptop....they are way overrated, IMO. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

r4m3n_n00dles

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Some schools require laptops with a min spec.

I'd check out <a href='http://www1.us.dell.com/content/default.aspx?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh' target='_blank'>Dell's Refurbished Outlet</a> for a laptop that cheap, but taboofires is right, you aren't going to get a good laptop that cheap.

However, for something cheap in the refurb heap, I see for $933.00: <a href='http://outlet.us.dell.com/Dispatcher?target=SpecPage&serviceTag=F5BDCY0W&sessionID=1wNZR4MU!-574522929!1586191548!1072745945678&tgtSeg=I' target='_blank'>Inspiron 1100, P4-2400, Windows? XP Home, 14" Screen, 30 G 4200RPM, 256MB RAM, CDRW</a>. But that's without really looking. You can find some sweet deals there.

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And before anyone mentions any of their opinions of Dell, just shut the hell up because I don't give a damn about what you think.