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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Computer Usage and Setup Help => Topic started by: SirCmpwn on November 02, 2010, 11:03:12 pm
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Hello,
I just got a newish laptop. It's an Dell Inspiron 6000, with a 32-bit 1.6 GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a 70GB HDD, and a kick @ss LCD with 1680x1050 resolution. I love the feel of the keyboard, and it's got built in bluetooth, very nice.
But here's the real kicker: I got it for $50.
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$50 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Nice! 8)
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Yeah. Bought it off a friend who just upgraded, and it was endlessly crashing under Windows XP. She said to me, "You're a nerd, maybe you can keep this stable. I'll give it to you for free." I said "ZOMG! I have to pay you something, how about $50?" "Okay, sure!"
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wow, thats amazing! :o/me hopes that happens to him someday. :P
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I wish I could get a laptop in a manner like that...
That's awesome
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The real kicker is that she mentioned having another laptop lying around the house she wants to give me :)
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The real kicker is that she mentioned having another laptop lying around the house she wants to give me :)
Take that one for free. ;)
Then sell it for $50. :)
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Lol, if it's any better, I'll sell this one instead.
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Wow that's nice, over here such computer costs about $140 and a laptop with those specs would be about $200 for sure.
That said I wonder how many New Laptop topics there are on the forums, now :P *ponders starting a sub-forum just for new laptop topics*
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Awesomesauce! Reminds me of the new PC I got for 75$ some years back. It had been returned because it wouldn't boot. Me and a buddy of mine opened it up and it had a loose cable... that was it. =)
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Nice. If you are good at electronics or can get help, you can save a lot of money on computers if it just needs repairing but is sold extremly cheap because it's broken. :D
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Very nice! Nerds are good at restoring "dead" electronics.
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Wow. SCORE! I wish I had your luck.
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That's so nice. Have fun with it.
Reminds me of that Pentium 4 1.6GHz desktop I bought for only $15.
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You are lucky, though, because your school sells their old computers :P (I wish the cegep I went to did that... I may have gotten a nice (*cough*oxymoron?*cough*runs*) mac to do some school work back then)
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What? My school doesn't sell old computers O_o
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Nice. If you are good at electronics or can get help, you can save a lot of money on computers if it just needs repairing but is sold extremly cheap because it's broken. :D
Yeah, my uncle's a IT guy. Then I've got my dad, and of course, me. If we can't fix it, then it's probably unfix-able.
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What? My school doesn't sell old computers O_o
I meant juju2143 school. :P
When I was younger, my mom wanted to go buy a computer there, but finally she didn't, as we were too tight on money.
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One thing I remember about Dell laptops from that time period is that the power cord from the AC outlet to the power supply itself develops what I would call a "bad connection." Where you can get a total loss of AC power to the power supply for a short period of time. I believe capacitors in the power supply can maintain voltage to the laptop but that will diminish at some point -- causing a "brown out". And brown outs can cause havoc to the CPU and/or peripherals.
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Also from what I remember, Dell laptops tend to break faster, but I could be wrong. I just heard bad stories about fried harddrives and stuff in the past years, although it seems less bad these days.
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possibly, i have heard about this... wait... i just had a brainwave
I have a dell latitude xt2 (it's ma laptop i use to forum on omnimaga) but i have heard that students in the grade above me (they have Lenovos) had some fried melted! harddrives and stuff.
I dunno. Dell is very different in Australia than in the US. In Australia, u can just build your own desktop computer (laptops are something different) which is why Dell is so successful in the US
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Wow 50 dollars! (USD) that's crazy, and nice specifications!
my dell xt2 cost $2262 (what a ripoff) well kind of cuz it has touchscreen/multitouch
and insurance and everything
it was required that a computer was needed to go to my school. (but u can borrow an older lenovo)
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Well in USA you can build your own desktop too, but most people get laptops nowadays because they can bring it anywhere.