Yard Sale Laptop

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Yard Sale Laptop

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Hey Everyone,
Today i got the deal of my life. I want to a yard sale in my neighborhood, and saw a laptop. All i could tell from the exterior was that it was made by Micron and had a DVD drive. I asked the price, and she said... get ready... $5! That is not a typo! She said it was cheap because the "T" key did not work. I bought it anyways, and popped the "T" key off. Shot it w/ comp. air, and it works like brend new!

The SPECS:
Pentium 3 800 mhz
320 MB ram
20.5 GB hdd
~15" LCD
DVD-ROM
WIN XP Home
Came w/ a free wireless 802.11g PC card
TOTAL PRICE: $5
MY CONCIENCE WOULDNT LET ME BARGAIN TO $3
[b]NOT FOR SALE[/b]
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Laptop: P3-m 800 Mhz, 320 MB ram, 20 GB HDD, Win XP PRO, 8x DVD, $5 in early 2005
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Nice, not to fast of a computer though.
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Post by Triton »

you are SO LUCKY i seldom get deals like that (none to date for computers of that ind of specs) but i did get a powerbook 280 (i think) for 5$ and sold it to a friend(total mac nut) for 15 :D
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Re: Yard Sale Laptop

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RNS0504 wrote:Hey Everyone,
Today i got the deal of my life. I want to a yard sale in my neighborhood, and saw a laptop. All i could tell from the exterior was that it was made by Micron and had a DVD drive. I asked the price, and she said... get ready... $5! That is not a typo! She said it was cheap because the "T" key did not work. I bought it anyways, and popped the "T" key off. Shot it w/ comp. air, and it works like brend new!

The SPECS:
Pentium 3 800 mhz
320 MB ram
20.5 GB hdd
~15" LCD
DVD-ROM
Came w/ a free wireless 802.11g PC card
TOTAL PRICE: $5
NOT FOR SALE
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Dang! Lucky you! That is an awesome deal, wish something would fall in my lap like that :D
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Sorry but its funny how she got rid of it cuase the "t" button wasnt working.
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Post by JackFrost22 »

why is that funny. Its useless now. Unless you plug a new keyboard in. An 800mhz is faster than my fastest computer so I feel insulted.
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JackFrost22 wrote:why is that funny. Its useless now. Unless you plug a new keyboard in. An 800mhz is faster than my fastest computer so I feel insulted.
He already fixed it if you read it.
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How many comps do you have?
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Jeff wrote:
JackFrost22 wrote:why is that funny. Its useless now. Unless you plug a new keyboard in. An 800mhz is faster than my fastest computer so I feel insulted.
He already fixed it if you read it.
Yeah I know he fixed it, but the other person probably knows crap about coputers. :roll:
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lol, that doesnt have much to do with computers, spraying it with air lol.
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Post by gotchocolatemilk2 »

if its broken you could always use the charecter map
and copy the charecter and when you wanted a t press ctrl+v to paste it
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gotchocolatemilk2 wrote:if its broken you could always use the charecter map
and copy the charecter and when you wanted a t press ctrl+v to paste it
Yea, that'd be a great idea for one of the top most used letters in the English language.

Man, I wish I could find a deal like this. I've been looking for a cheap laptop with a good screen so that I can make a digital picture frame.
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Post by SgtBowhack »

I got my laptop for $40 (but it's not nearly as good and had a broken LCD). The screen cost $70, and I decided it was worth upgrading with more RAM ($30) and a new hard drive ($90ish). So yeah, for about $250 I got a crappy low-end P3 laptop. But it has 320MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive :P
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Post by yalborap »

make a carputer out of it.

www.mp3car.com

that thing's more than powerful enough for some mp3s via winamp or something.
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