sustainablog.org — Buying second-hand products is always cheaper and friendly to the environment, but it’s easy to be discouraged by the stories of broken laptops purchased from eBay. To quell these fears and make green computing easy for everyone, here is a 10-step checklist on how to avoid high-tech lemons.
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searcadeSep 22, 2008
i brought one for 100 pound, im using it right now as my sony vaio broke and the insurance company doesnt replace it unless i find my charger, which i cant find and the charger costs alot so i brought this laptop to use temporarily and guess what?the bad thing about the laptop is it has 40gb hard drive,one thing i liked, when i logged in to the laptop it had 30gb or porn lol im serious
kd1sSep 23, 2008
Buy a used laptop? Right now in this household there are four laptops. One of which is an old Inspiron 4100. The power supply cord is hacked together but it works. The others are two XPS M140's that see regular use and are our personal machines. Then there's my work laptop, a Lenovo T61, that gets use as well. When its time to retire the XP's I plan on keeping them as little server boxes.
Closed AccountSep 23, 2008
Easy - just look for the Apple logo on the case.
leadman584Sep 24, 2008
30GB of porn is a bonus. A 40GB is not a bad thing. Window XP only needs 5GB or so to run smoothly. It is the 1TB externals that make it fine. I have a few machines running XP on 36GB Raptors, but an extra 3 to 10 1TB drives for data makes it all good.