After an hour of eBay'ing, I've failed

**filburt1** · Mar 21st, 2002, 09:22 PM

m'kay, I'm looking for a cheap crappy laptop to get me on the school's wireless LAN. So all it needs is a 200 MHz Pentium (or K5/6/whatever), 32 MB RAM, and 1.5 GB HDD. The kicker? Including shipping, $75 or less. Of course it needs everything like a CD-ROM, battery, perfect screen (size doesn't matter as long as it doesn't look retardedly small), and AC adapter.

*waits for the laughter to die down*

Anything good on eBay/somewhere else REPUTABLE?

**Nightwalker83** · Mar 21st, 2002, 09:25 PM

You want to hack school computers?

**filburt1** · Mar 21st, 2002, 09:37 PM

Eh, no, Mindsurf put a network in there with a bunch of iPaqs as an experiment or something, so a bunch of people with laptops got wireless cards and go online with it. There's no file server or anything, I just want to surf during English

**JungleMan** · Mar 21st, 2002, 09:40 PM

$75? Are you stoned?

They are hceap but not THAT cheap

**numtel** · Mar 21st, 2002, 09:41 PM

You want to hack school computers?

Why would anybody want to modify their grades? You get what you earn.

**filburt1** · Mar 21st, 2002, 09:42 PM

I found quite a few on eBay, but they all had one tiny quirk that spoiled each one (no battery, no CD, too expensive shipping)...

**daveyboy** · Mar 21st, 2002, 10:25 PM

You'll be lucky if you find anything perfect for that sort of a price, yeah there getting cheaper, and second hand models are cheaper naturally, but there comes a point in time where ppl start to give up on sellin simply because there worth more to them than they could get back

I think for what your after, you should at least double your price range (at least)

**filburt1** · Mar 21st, 2002, 10:28 PM

Time to start another money-making scheme

I'm trying to install vBulletin for somebody at those forums for $30, that's a start

**Sastraxi** · Mar 21st, 2002, 11:04 PM

You are cheap aren't you, and I don't mean money-wise

**filburt1** · Mar 21st, 2002, 11:04 PM

Thanks...smartass

**nishantp** · Mar 21st, 2002, 11:35 PM

Originally posted by numtel

You get what you earn.

You earn what you hack

**Nightwalker83** · Mar 21st, 2002, 11:37 PM

Originally posted by numtel

Why would anybody want to modify their grades? You get what you earn.

I am not talking about modifing grades.

**filburt1** · Mar 21st, 2002, 11:39 PM

Arrrg, I just want to go online during class and fail high school

**Nightwalker83** · Mar 21st, 2002, 11:42 PM

Originally posted by filburt1
Arrrg, I just want to go online during class and fail high school

You should stay in high school, you don't want to end up with a sh** job. You don't want to end up kicking yourself because you work in a job you didn't want.

**Sastraxi** · Mar 21st, 2002, 11:47 PM

Hmmmph

I don't want to fail

Don't fail!

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Mar 22nd, 2002, 09:54 AM

How could anyone fail english, i actually have up to 3 spares a day because i have a grade 11 english in the morning (i am in grade 11) and a grade 12 in the afternon, i figure i should just get them out of the way now, I love reading but i hate english, the only book i actually like that we read in english was Fifth Bussiness. My timetable is super schizofrenic

Monday:
Per 1 Spare
Per 2 1.5 english classes
per 3 half a lunch
per 4 HL computers
per 5 Physics

Tuesday:
Per 1 Spare
Per 2 1.5 calculus classes
per 3 half a lunch
per 4 grade 12 english
per 5 Physics

Wednesday:
Per 1 Spare
Per 2 1 english classe
per 3 lunch
per 4 HL computers
per 5 Physics

Thursday:
Per 1 Spare
Per 2 1.5 calculus classes
per 3 half a lunch
per 4 grade 12 english
per 5 Physics

Friday:
Per 1 Spare
Per 2 2 calculus classes
Per 3 No lunch (im in calculus all of lunch)
Per 4 HL computers
Per 5 Physics.

ARGHH they couldn't have made it simpler? the double period calculus class is a killer.

Jethro · Mar 22nd, 2002, 03:34 PM

Originally posted by filburt1
Arrrg, I just want to go online during class and fail high school

And ppl say Furby has no ambition....

Could try

1. Do you have a local Trading Post newspaper....good for a laugh occasionally like this one guy trying to sell a 486 for $600.

2. Try your local hardware store..sometimes they have trade ins floating around out back..

3. Try an Apple store, they do trade ins....it's Apple though...

4. Put an add in your local paper...poor student seeks obsolete hardware type of thing

Hope it gives you ideas.....

**Nightwalker83** · Mar 22nd, 2002, 07:16 PM

Jethro,

That is a waste why would they still be selling 486's? I can understand ppl fixing them ready for some charity though.

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Mar 22nd, 2002, 07:55 PM

they are commonly used as routers

Jethro · Mar 23rd, 2002, 12:46 AM

Originally posted by Gandalf_Grey_
they are commonly used as routers

Or print queue handlers...

Furby

Checked out the local second hand laptop sales place for ya...figured if cheao enough just send you one. Cheapest was a PII Toshiba at $600 Oz.......

**filburt1** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 11:41 AM

That's like $300 USD?

**sail3005** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 01:00 PM

Do you have computer conventions near your house?

they have old laptops here for about $120

**nabeels786** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 01:02 PM

yeah those are the best places to get computer parts and stuff.

they have ones like an hour from where i am, they sold old laptops there for about 100$

**sail3005** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 01:04 PM

They just had one about a week ago here...the laptops aren't bad either. old thinkpads usually.

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 01:45 PM

we never have conventions here, and i don't know why, around here would be great for cooling a computer, so damn cold right now,

. We have a bunch of computer stores around with pretty compatent technitions (who know what you are talking about when you ask for a part). Once i went to a computer store and as an afterthought asked if they had linux,the sales person said, "whats linux", i replied, "an operating system" the salesperson then said "for what". I just left

. I also finally got around to buying a new fan and i am going to stick it on in about 10 minutes. right now i have MBM running so i can see the difference it makes.

**filburt1** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 01:50 PM

Originally posted by sail3005
Do you have computer conventions near your house?

they have old laptops here for about $120

Yeah, there's one in Gaithersburg every few weeks which is 45 mins away, but

1. I don't want my dad to know that I'm trying to acquire a laptop

2. I'm doing relatively crappy in school, 4 Cs and 1 A (the A was in Java

)

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 02:20 PM

I don't know how anyone can get a bad mark in computer class, I am in the IB computers class and it is supposedly impossible, i have a 97 in it right now

so i have 1 A+ (HL computers) 2B's (my English classes, grade 11 & 12) and 1 C (calculus, which probably isn't a C any more since i just had a test i think i got about 78% on) and i really have no clue where my physics mark is

**filburt1** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 02:22 PM

I literally written more than 1000 lines of code in there this year so far. I've been working on her home page (MrsKramer.com, see sig), and learning PHP in the process

**sail3005** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 02:48 PM

Originally posted by filburt1
2. I'm doing relatively crappy in school, 4 Cs and 1 A (the A was in Java )

so...your subconcious is telling you NOT to get a laptop

**filburt1** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 02:50 PM

No, my subconcious is busy schemeing of a way to get one

Jethro · Mar 24th, 2002, 12:02 AM

Originally posted by sail3005

so...your subconcious is telling you NOT to get a laptop

Or to get one to improve skill work on

**rjlohan** · Mar 24th, 2002, 12:09 AM

Originally posted by filburt1
*waits for the laughter to die down*

$75? ROFLOL

Keep waiting...

**filburt1** · Mar 24th, 2002, 09:19 AM

Well vBulletin has paid for itself and I just got an awesome offer at the forums there, so the limit may be raised to a slightly better $180

**sail3005** · Mar 24th, 2002, 09:21 AM

How did it pay for itself?

Jethro · Mar 24th, 2002, 12:48 PM

Originally posted by filburt1
Well vBulletin has paid for itself and I just got an awesome offer at the forums there, so the limit may be raised to a slightly better $180

Probably half way there already...put an add in your local paper..

**nabeels786** · Mar 24th, 2002, 03:34 PM

doing crappy in school and u still wanna surf in english? lol

**filburt1** · Mar 24th, 2002, 03:55 PM

Well, surf discretely

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Mar 24th, 2002, 05:30 PM

I think a laptop would be benificial to my grades, since my notes well tend to be either non-existant or horrilby illegable (illegable writing is my trademark and the class groans when the teacher asks me to put something on the board

). If i bought a laptop i could take notes in electronic form, and i can type faster than i write too

**filburt1** · Mar 24th, 2002, 05:32 PM

m'kay, the price limit has been raised to a staggering, dumbfounding $150 now

**filburt1** · Mar 24th, 2002, 05:33 PM

Originally posted by Gandalf_Grey_
I think a laptop would be benificial to my grades, since my notes well tend to be either non-existant or horrilby illegable (illegable writing is my trademark and the class groans when the teacher asks me to put something on the board ). If i bought a laptop i could take notes in electronic form, and i can type faster than i write too

Same here, I've got a Palm and the Palm Portable Keyboard (it cost $100

) and all I have to do now is just look at the teacher when I have the Palm in my hand, and she'll nod, meaning "Yes, you can go find an IR printer and print what you just typed"

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