2 cost questions for you Gurus out there!

real_ate

ok well i have a few opinion questions for everyone, please throw in any old figure you consider for these 2... problems

1.....
i am looking for a really cheap laptop, something that is beyond anyone wanting anytime soon, just so that i can load linux on it and take notes on it in college. i have so far set a budget of 150 euro and i want to know your opinion on if this is sellin myself short or not.

2.....
and for the next trick;) i am looking to sell an expensive piece of software soon and i would like to know what price you think i could get for it. THIS IN NOT A SELLING POST SO PM ME IF YOUR INTERESTED! its 3D Studio Viz release 3, complete with instruction manual and hardware dongle (the security thing, don't quite know what its called).

any thoughts?

SouperComputer

1) You will probably get a PI for that money. Battery life in that price bracket will be poor, unless you are really lucky. I would say PI with decent battery, PII with a poor one. Reading your other post, not a hope in hell of 500Mhz unless it needs work. 500mhz is good enough to play quake II with software accel, nevermine solitare!

2) Sell it on ebay, you will probably get the best price for it there.

melekalikimaka

i've a p500 with 128 o ram, running ubuntu, i got the laptop for free(mouse button was slightly broken and company didnt want them taking space. you ould get a p500 lappy for 150 i'd say, put in the price in wanted computer hardware and corss your fingers, what college you in, some have problems networking with linux(i'm in dit, its grand)

real_ate

SouperComputer wrote:

Reading your other post, not a hope in hell of 500Mhz unless it needs work.

well ya see thats the thing, the work i'm thinking of putting into it is formatting the hard drive and loading a low spec linux onto it... i'm testing a few distros on a 266 laptop (that is about to fall appart) and i'll see what can run without much trouble.

melekalikimaka wrote:

what college you in, some have problems networking with linux(i'm in dit, its grand)

i'm doin computer science in TCD, i don't think i'll have too much trouble networking with this one cos i have all these great "i dream in linux" people around me that i'm sure have the answers ten times over

SouperComputer

by work I dont mean installing linux, I mean hardware issues.

Anyway, nothing ventured, nothing gained! Its worth a shot!

real_ate

hmm.. i had never thought about that, i was never really a hardware fanatic and i wouldn't call myself good enough to even think about repairing a busted laptop! from what i believe, laptops are quite difficult to resolve hardware issues on... no?

real_ate

Oh and btw, i want to bump the question on the worth of my software! thats something i wanna find out pretty soon, cos i don't wanna be selling myself short on e-bay. i'm just looking for an opionion, thats all

peterk19

ive an old P2 Toshiba satellite you can have for €150 not sure on the ram or processor speed i just installed win98 on it the otherday and it took its running it grand
let me know if ya want it
Pete

real_ate

peterk19 wrote:

ive an old P2 Toshiba satellite you can have for €150 not sure on the ram or processor speed i just installed win98 on it the otherday and it took its running it grand
let me know if ya want it
Pete

i really need to know stats on it man! i don't want to offer any money for anything that i don't quite know its full specs... i can (and so can a lot of people on these boards) tell you how to find out if you want!