[ale] Buying used laptops

[Jim Philips]

This laptop is my official issue at work. I've been using it for over a year with no problems. It's a good workhorse machine.

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From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:34 AM
To: Atlanta LUG
Subject: [ale] Buying used laptops




Is it worthwhile buying a used laltop such as the Toshiba Tecra 8000
Laptop for just $529 (@
http://www.compucycle.net/ftpfiles/todayspecials.cfm)Â  It's suppose to
have


Pentium II 266 MHz
128 MB Memory
13.3" TFT (active matrix) Screen
6.4GB Hard Drive
20X CD-Rom
1.44MB Floppy
56K Modem
Lithium Ion Battery
A/C Adapter
USB,
Serial and parallel ports.


Such a PC would give me access to the internet when I'm on the road and
hopefully allow installing rh6.2 for learning purposes. I guess what I'm
really asking is how old is this computer and how long will it last?
What would fail first?


jjc


(See attached file: casacruz.vcf)