Need your opinion on a purchase

[Cygnus-X1]

Is it worth it? (secondary subject line) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

A friend of mine is buying a used laptop from a friend.
Specs,
Compaq 1170 or 1270?
333 MHZ Processsor, assuming AMD K6-2
32 Megs Ram
Win 98
Internet Ready (?)

These are the specs that his friend relayed to my friend.

I am assuming that the recovery disk is/should be included.

The guy is asking for...
$550.00

I am not too familiar with laptops but I think the price would be more reasonable at
$450.00 or so.

What do you all think?

Thanks in advance!

[Bovon]

No, not in my opinion at least. I, personally have had very little dealings with lap tops...but Compaqs don't seem to be in as much demand as Dell and IBM are. I paid $380 for a P133 Dell abouts 6 months ago, and have had several offers to make a (slight) profit. So, Maybe $450 to $500 would be more in the ball park

I found one at eBay that comes close, but I think is a better model, and has more ram, 6 gig HDD, 56 K modem...ect.

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1225435628&ed=985927337

[Cygnus-X1]

Thanks Bovon!

Anyone else want to give me a opinion on the price?

Robert http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[PassnThru]

I would only suggest that your friend check out some new ones before he spends any cash on a used one. Nothing against used stuff but notebooks generally can't be upgraded so starting out old stays old. You can get probably double the laptop now for not quite $1000. I know that's a big jump from $550 but he would be way ahead. Remember that clock for clock notebooks are slower than desktops so that 333 will seem really slow.