I'm going to be buying a SMT6 or Split Second FTC in the very near future. Before I can take full advantage of either, I need an inexpensive laptop. I figure I need at least a 333mhz processor and 2-5GB HD. If the HD has been formatted, no problem. I have a copy of Win98.

The cheaper the better. Please post here or PM me with any leads.

Thanks!

 

What kind of price range are we talking about?

 

$250 max, if possible.

 

It's hard to find an old laptop in decent shape. Most hit the garbage can after 5 years of abuse and have dead batteries.

You can pick up a brand spanking new one for $500 that gets you a 1.5ghz Intel Celleron M and DVD drive. That's probably about $250 more than what you'll pay for a beatup Pentium 2.

 

Where would I find a $500 laptop? Cheapest I can find is $650.

 

Best Buy, Circuit City, and CompUSA all advertised a $499 laptop during their day after christmas sale. I think Best Buy was selling a Toshiba. I was going to get it, but I want something with better battery life - the celeron eats it up.

Did some searching and found a news article on it: http://dealnews.com/articles/75856.html

FOUND ONE via that website above...they list a bunch of current deals: http://officedepot.crossmediaservice...d=-2097389960&

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...735575718&rd=1

i doubt you'll make it in time but i'd keep on ebay....you can find something

 

I have something but I'm not sure how good it'll be. It doesn't want to start up so it definitely needs work but it's an old Toshiba Satellite - don't remember the rest.

 

I had posted this in your other thread, but I'll put it here as well:

Try this eBay search (pii, 128mb). Anything from there will be plenty. I'm running a Toshiba Satellite 4015CDT which is a PII 266 in 128k on Win2k and it's perfect.