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[Bacon Butty Man]

got hold of 15 compaq armada 1700 laptops, knocked out at £75 each, made quite a nice few quid, only got 3 left, getting more tomorrow, they are flying out, makes great gifts for kids this xmas, thats without adverts in paper, just word of mouth and an ad in tesco's,
all p2, cd rom, win xp, usp, wifi capable, pcmcia slots.
gonna place ad in local rag tomorrow.
 

[Ken T]

how do you get XP to run?. If I'm not wrong, they are P2 300M, aren't they a bit slow?.

I am actually envious of your selling technique. After my last contract, I started getting a load of laptops I had lying around fixed up ready for sale. I just got about 8 sorted, got some computer fairs organised, then suddenly the NI job came up, so I'm stuck till after March  

Ken

[Martin_1962]

I MAY be in the market for a cheap XP laptop in the new year with emphasis on cheap

[Ken T]

I got a range, from DV6000 to Tosh 4600. Don't know if your after one with a serial port, but I have several Advent 6400's that have serial ports. Trouble is I reconed you needed at least 1G ram to make XP usable, and it a pain getting 1G in SDram.

Ken

[hotel21]

In the market for a cheap one with serial port thats running XP sp2 with a good battery......   My one has just went fantastical tits up, complete with smoke and flames....  

[Taxi_Driver]

In the market for a cheap one with serial port thats running XP sp2 with a good battery......   My one has just went fantastical tits up, complete with smoke and flames....  

Didnt spill some malt on it did you Broocie  :-/
My tipple....red wine....just makes em go phut and stop working  

BTW you should be using SP3  

[Taxi_Driver]

how do you get XP to run?. If I'm not wrong, they are P2 300M, aren't they a bit slow?.

I am actually envious of your selling technique. After my last contract, I started getting a load of laptops I had lying around fixed up ready for sale. I just got about 8 sorted, got some computer fairs organised, then suddenly the NI job came up, so I'm stuck till after March  

Ken

Some Armadas are 233 or 266Mhz.....will run XP just.....but be a tad slow....imo.....

But fair play.....i used to sell 2nd lappies for a while....on ebay....and yes they do fly.....at the right price  

[hotel21]

In the market for a cheap one with serial port thats running XP sp2 with a good battery......   My one has just went fantastical tits up, complete with smoke and flames....  

Didnt spill some malt on it did you Broocie  :-/
My tipple....red wine....just makes em go phut and stop working  

BTW you should be using SP3  

Nope, not malt....

Pooch being over eager to play and was a glass of coke.....  Dunno how the smoke and flame came about, but it was stinky to say the least?

yeas, should be SP3..  

[Ken T]

how do you get XP to run?. If I'm not wrong, they are P2 300M, aren't they a bit slow?.

I am actually envious of your selling technique. After my last contract, I started getting a load of laptops I had lying around fixed up ready for sale. I just got about 8 sorted, got some computer fairs organised, then suddenly the NI job came up, so I'm stuck till after March  

Ken

Some Armadas are 233 or 266Mhz.....will run XP just.....but be a tad slow....imo.....

But fair play.....i used to sell 2nd lappies for a while....on ebay....and yes they do fly.....at the right price  

That's me showing my old lundite tendencies of preferring Win98SE, it went well on the  Advent 6418, which had either a P3 or Cel, 700mhz upwards. Trouble with getting a good battery is Li-ion batteries tend to wear out with time, and are supposedly good for about 4-500 recharge cycles. Most original batteies from that era are totally stuffed by now. I tried replacing them with some good Li-ions, but the charge control chip seems to track how bad the cells are, and won't let you fully charge/use new cells. And I ain't going to bypass the protection circuitry, oh no. The few stories about battery packs bursting into flames are enough to stop me doing that.

Ken

[Bacon Butty Man]

I MAY be in the market for a cheap XP laptop in the new year with emphasis on cheap

they run xp ok, you gotta tweak xp n take all the fancy effects off but xp runs of as little as 64 mb ram, as thats the very minimum ram it will load on, 128 or 256 is better. these are 266 mhz. n cheap enough at £75 quid each

[Bacon Butty Man]

if any one wants one for xmas for the kids. pm me for pics, i can deliver for £9 thru dhl.

[Martin_1962]

Waiting until MOT Raod Tax ect done

[tyreburner]

got hold of 15 compaq armada 1700 laptops, knocked out at £75 each, made quite a nice few quid, only got 3 left, getting more tomorrow, they are flying out, makes great gifts for kids this xmas, thats without adverts in paper, just word of mouth and an ad in tesco's,
all p2, cd rom, win xp, usp, wifi capable, pcmcia slots.
gonna place ad in local rag tomorrow.
 

Mate of mine started doing this a couple of years ago, would also buy various broken ones and swap parts, he now buys broken ones in bulk, has two shops and strips some down and sprays them pink, he is making a fortune, and the best bit is when he started he had to go onto google to learn to solder lol

[nick v6]

not to be a snake in the grass and mess your sales up but have you seen the price of both laptops and pc's on bigpockets
they got some cheap good deals on there

[TheBoy]

Hotel21 - I guess I know what for.  The one I use is about the minimum spec I would recommend (PIII 650, 256Mb RAM, XP SP3,com port, decent battery life) for that use.  Its an old Dell CPJ iirc, complete with failing (for 8yrs!) HDD

Saying that, I have a couple of knackered CPi's that you may be able to get one decent one out of - yours if you want them.

I think MDTM has by other one I used for that role - a PIII 1G, 256Mb, and a battery that keeps bruising your foot