Selling a PC & buying a laptop - advice

Mocking Burd

I'm thinking about selling my pc and buying a laptop and need a bit of advice on the cost. The pc is a 3-year old Dell Dimension - Pentium III, 133mhz, 128mb ram, CD-DVD, Windows ME. It's in excellent condition cos it's hardly used so I'm wondering how much I should sell it for?

I'm looking to replace it with a laptop - nothing fancy - similar spec to the pc but am looking for XP. Any suggestions on what I should go for - and of how much I'd be likely to be paying?

(Hope this is the right place to be asking btw ).


Thanks,
Burd.

L5

100-200 quid if your lucky

Mocking Burd

Whoops! Thought I was posting this in the Technology forum there - you might want to move this....

sceptre

Originally posted by Mocking Burd
Pentium III, 133mhz

133Mhz is the bus speed, yeah? If you're advertising it anywhere people might want to know the actual speed of the processor
(if it's actually 133Mhz, 'tain't a P3)

Mocking Burd

Originally posted by sceptre
133Mhz is the bus speed, yeah? If you're advertising it anywhere people might want to know the actual speed of the processor
(if it's actually 133Mhz, 'tain't a P3)

Yessum - Processor's 1Ghz. Here's the full spec:-


Dimension L 1Ghz MMT Video 256K with Floppy Drive
128MB PC133 SDRAM Memory
20GB IDE
16X DVD-ROM Drive
DVD Software for Win ME only **
17in Value Pearl White Monitor
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 64v Audio for Dimension
NMB 605 Speakers
56.6k V.90 Data/Fax/Voice Internal PCI Modem
MS Windows ME
MS Works Suite 2001

Oriel

You could build yourself that same/better spec mahine for about €400 depending on where you look.

joePC

ON boards I'd say €150 seems like a fair price....

Thanks joePC

Mocking Burd

Thanks for the replies. I won't be selling it on Boards

Venom

Originally posted by Mocking Burd
Thanks for the replies. I won't be selling it on Boards

Dude, you would be doing well to get €150 for it.

CyberGhost

computers are becoming so cheap!!!

Venom

Originally posted by CyberGhost
computers are becoming so cheap!!!

Not really, its just the pc he is selling is pretty craptastic.

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by Mocking Burd
I'm thinking about selling my pc and buying a laptop and need a bit of advice on the cost. The pc is a 3-year old Dell Dimension - Pentium III, 133mhz, 128mb ram, CD-DVD, Windows ME. It's in excellent condition cos it's hardly used so I'm wondering how much I should sell it for?

I'm looking to replace it with a laptop - nothing fancy - similar spec to the pc but am looking for XP. Any suggestions on what I should go for - and of how much I'd be likely to be paying?

(Hope this is the right place to be asking btw ).


Thanks,
Burd.

You might get €300 for it in buy and sell. Don't expect anything near what you paid for it, it is three years old after all.

As for buying a laptop? Just go to Dell and get a bottom of the range jobbie, it'll do you fine as long as you're not into your gaming.

Mocking Burd

Originally posted by Raskolnikov
You might get €300 for it in buy and sell. Don't expect anything near what you paid for it, it is three years old after all.

As for buying a laptop? Just go to Dell and get a bottom of the range jobbie, it'll do you fine as long as you're not into your gaming.

I didn't realise they were going for so little these days - but it is a very basic spec I suppose. I'm in no rush anyway so I may try and sell it privately at some stage - on the intranet at work maybe. I've seen the Dell laptops and I'd be looking at a grand for the most basic model. Im not into gaming or owt so that would suffice.
Sure thanks for the advice anyway.:)