laptop advice

[zepp]

I have been offered a laptop second hand. Its a simple question about how much do you think it is worth.
The laptop was new 13 months ago and bought for £650 from a large PC outlet.
How much would you expect to pay for one that cost that amount then?

ps Not sure about the model, spec etc but base the answer on the new price.

[G man]

£100.00

[zepp]

Originally Posted by G man

£100.00

Seriously??????
it has only been used a dozen times, complete with carry bag (its my sisters)

[endoman]

Probably very little, £150 max. Laptops around £300 new now are pretty well specced up.

[Narked@50]

Hi Zepp

I know you want to ignore spec, but the market on these moves so fast it realy is important. I always recon anything second hand is normaly worth about half of what it was new, but you will get a duel core new one with a Gb of ram and a warranty for under £400, and these are suitable for most peoples uses, so you have to pay way less for a second hand one to be worth it.

Have a look on e-bay and see what an equivalent model goes for, you may be surprised.

James

[lindam]

You can't ignore the spec and software and be fair to your sister and yourself

if it is 13 months old it is probably underspecced compared to what you would get for that price now - but she might have got a really good deal - you also need to think about what software will come with it - a good selection of software that you want to use could make it worth more than the earlier suggestions.

But as the previous reply said have a look on ebay once you know the spec and the software .

[zepp]

Originally Posted by Narked@50

Hi Zepp

I know you want to ignore spec, but the market on these moves so fast it realy is important. I always recon anything second hand is normaly worth about half of what it was new, but you will get a duel core new one with a Gb of ram and a warranty for under £400, and these are suitable for most peoples uses, so you have to pay way less for a second hand one to be worth it.

Have a look on e-bay and see what an equivalent model goes for, you may be surprised.

James

I have been looking on ebay (under the buy it now or with a few minutes to go for a realistic price) around the £300 mark. There are so many on there so can anyone find a link to something £300 or less. I would like a big screen, DVD, firewire, infa-red...that sort of thing.

[G man]

Originally Posted by zepp

Seriously??????
it has only been used a dozen times, complete with carry bag (its my sisters)

Seriously, People sell crap on EBAY i would not buy one from there. You go look on the Dell web site or PC world Currys Comet Etc.

£350.00 for a good spec laptop, with antivirus for a year and a 12 month warantee, fresh build, with no rubbish on it.

Secondhand would have to be really cheap to beat that.

Grant.

[endoman]

Don't pay for anti virus, just got to AVG Free Advisor - Free antivirus and anti-spyware downloads

Similarly OpenOffice.org: Home will do for most users, ( Thanks arfie )

I also prefer firefox and thunderbird to their msoft counterparts