Low-end Laptops?

cryingpoet writes: "I remember the good old days, before everyone wanted a cell phone or PDA, back when you could buy a used laptop for $80 (USD). Now all the affordable laptops have hit the recycling bins as raw materials for new screens. To make matters worse, the state of the economy has driven companies to stop upgrading and keep all used laptops "in-house." Most used laptops run twice their cpu clock speed in dollars [$ = MHz * 2($/MHz)]. Auction prices seem to be worse than that of wholeseller. So I come to you, /.ers, in the hopes that there are still some used laptop deals to be had. Is there such a thing as a low-end used laptop anymore, and where?"

Comments

Re:Etch-A-Sketch

[garcia]

unfortunatly where I work the supervisors pray on you using a GBA. I don't use one but playing Simcity2k on my Cassiopeia also counts as a GBA apparently :(

Anyone know of a task swapper that can quickly go from Simcity2k to PocketWord w/the touch of a key on my keyboard?

psst. psssst! ya you, you wanna cheap laptop

[nickynicky9doors]

." Most used laptops run twice their cpu clock speed in dollars [$ = MHz * 2($/MHz)]. Auction prices seem to be worse than that of wholeseller. So I come to you, /.ers, in the hopes that there are still some used laptop deals to be had. Is there such a thing as a low-end used laptop anymore, and where?"

Stupid people stir up a storm of ambivalence within me. Take the above quote. 'Most laptops'...'Auction prices'... 'wholeseller'...'such a thing'. Do you see it? No. Sad.:(

If I had the opportunity to rid the world of one baddie I'd go for the inability of people to separate thinking in terms of a class from thinking in terms of a member of a class. Auction prices (prices plural) and wholeseller imply sets and, in terms of prices, mean averages. 'a thing' implies a one off unit, say a bargin, say something bought or something sold to someone without access to market information and therefore unwilling or unable to establish market value. Either one can post personal ads on the front page of slashdot requesting a bargin or slashdot editors can't grasp something as elementary as distinguishing between a set and an element of a set. Anyway if /. takes personal requests I wanna alot o' freebeer :)

Re:fuzzy math

[mikeage]

No, no, no... that's not true.

You were supposed to say as follows (since you obviously can't divide $ / $

$/$ = 2
$ = 2$
0 = $

i.e., they're free!

Laptop LCD window

[hochwald]

There was an article published in an electronics magazine on using the LCD displays from old laptops to make a window that you could electronically adjust the tint to control how much sun gets in the room.