cheap laptops.

[co2]

wow, the price on laptops just suddn went down for a bit. hey

Walmart, has this one for 498, and http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5513681

and then
this one for 478, this one is online only tho. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5412015


Then bestbuy has this one for 499
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8209235&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat103700050018&id=1165610938449

not great, or even good, for gaming, but great if you are a student, or a teacher, and just need a laptop, and don't need frills, and don't have much money.

just a heads up.

[Sterling_Aug]

Have you ever checked out the refurbs at:

http://www.ubid.com

I got two. One for me and one for my daughter at school.

[JPnyc]

I need a new laptop but I can't buy one that doesn't have the trackpoint. It's the only mouse substitute I can tolerate.

[rockinup1231]

I know, they're too sensitive.

Nice links co2 and Sterling

[JPnyc]

No, I actually LIKE the trackpoints. It's those stupid scratchpad finger thingies I can't stomach.

[rockinup1231]

Wait are track points are these, right?

http://www-06.ibm.com/jp/pc/think/thinkvantagedesign/i/trackpoint_01.jpg

I thought that the flat finger pads were what you are talkin' about. I don't care much for laptops. Anyway, I agree with you. I myself would rather use a small mouse over those options.

[JPnyc]

Yes, that's a trackpoint. Unfortunately my old IBM A30 has given up, so I have to replace it. But I think the only LT's offering the trackpoint anymore are IBMs, so I have to go that route

[rockinup1231]

Nothing wrong with that...

I would prefer an IBM over any other company anyday, that's the only laptop I like...

[JPnyc]

I wonder how backward compatible their stuff is. Wonder if I could just upgrade the processor. I have a ton of expensive software loaded from I.T. school that I don't have the discs for. Most notably visual studio, but other stuff like Oracle and other things as well.

[rockinup1231]

I wouldn't know, but probably.

Over the years, thinkpads have always looked the same, but each had a new tweak. New mobo, maybe a new type of cpu, that weird finger print ID verification thingy....

Well, that was an accessory.

Cpu's don't create much of a change in lapotops (don't make much of an upgrade), unless it's something like a change from a single core Intel Centrino to an Intel Dual Core cpu.

If you do get an IBM, then a memory upgrade and hard drive upgrade may be a better idea. However, my old school had newer IBM's and they aren't that slow, they had tons of crud on 'em and still ran as fast as possible...

[aaronkish]

hey guys, i need to buy a laptop, but i dont have too muchh money to spend on it, so i need it reeeeeeallly cheap, better if it dont have the operating system, coz it cost less without it, any other suggestion, besides the already said in the upper comments, thank you, hope help from you....