How much would you pay for this?

[Playaa]

So I've got a Laptop that I bought about 2 years ago for work purposes.

The story is that my programming team had grown so fast and the budget wasn't there for us to have good laptops so I was given a 300mhz laptop with 256mb Ram to program on.

Anyway, I went out and decided to buy my own laptop to work on since I was actually a Contracter anyway. I was gonna write it off on taxes (turns out I actually couldn't though). 2 weeks after I bought it I found a better job.

So...ever since then this Laptop has done absolutely nothing except sit on my night stand by my bed and play DVD's.

I actually really like the laptop. Apart from it's DVD skills it did have one small foray of being my gaming machine for FF04 (the last Frag Fest I went to). It played CS perfectly fine back then.

Here are the specs I can remember off the top of my head:

Sony Vaio

15.4" Widescreen XBrite screen

512mb Ram

64mb Shared Memory ATI Video card

2.8ghz processor

50gb hard drive

comes with a Windows XP Home key (I had my own copy of XP Pro so I never used Home)

Wireless LAN

56k Modem

USB 2.0

16x CD Burner/DVD Reader

 

There are 2 problems with it that I know of:

1) It's not the most portable laptop ever. It's a tad on the heavy side...but it's still a laptop so it IS portable.

2) When I got it I didn't realize that you had to burn the Windows XP Home on the Hard Drive onto 8 CD's before you formatted it...(they told me at the store but I was too excited to pay attention) so I don't actually have the XP Home install disk (the key code is on a sticker on the laptop though) and I also didn't get the Sony Tools program that is supposed to be installed. The Sony Tools thing means that the 56k Modem and the Keyboard shortcuts (like Volume Up/Down, Mute, etc.) don't work. You can buy a CD from Sony for like $30 that comes with all that stuff but I just never bothered to do it.

 

just found this laptop on ebay that looks very similar:

ebay

 

I'll try to go home and take pictures of it tonight. If no one on here is interested I might just give it to my sister but I'd really like to sell this thing and maybe use the money to upgradge my non-functioning desktop.

 

anyway...anyone interested or got any ideas on what kind of price I could get for it? (reasonably)

Edited August 30, 2006 by Playaa/Pselus

[stutters]

i might be interested, but the ebay you linked is to a ~2 year newer laptop (celeron-d).

 

- is the wirless built in?

- what version of 802.11 is it? a/b/g?

- what would make it worth not giving to your sister? (what's your price)

[Playaa]

the wireless is built in.

I'm pretty sure it's 802.11b...I know it's the one that is the easiest to get compatible hardware for (or easiest at that time).

I checked last night and it's 2.8ghz and a 50gb hard drive...I'll update the first message.

 

Also I wouldn't be "giving" it to my sister...just selling it to her and she can't really afford it.

 

Would $600 be a good price for it?

[Playaa]

yeah...looked around the web and every laptop has "Duo Core" now...which is something I don't know...but I'm betting $400 or less is more like it isn't it?

[Preacher]

You'll prolly get someone to buy it at $400. Laptop prices have dropped a lot over the last year due to the influx of new technology. The older laptops have just bottomed out in price.

[Playaa]

yeah I already sold it to a friend for $400