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My son has a chance to buy a Toshiba satelite laptop (from his boss at work) I have some (very incomplete[the seller sent a text]) specifications

 

92.7GB hard drive (eh?) a 1.8 GHz Celeron and 2GB RAM: for £120.

No OS specified, I assume integrated graphics.

Aparrently it is quite old but still pretty much unused.

 

I don't think that is worth it but thought I would ask here.

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No.............................

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It depends on what it would be used for... If he needs a cheap laptop for word/etc... then it may or may not be decent...although, that sounds expensive considering an HP Stream is like $300. 

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Not worth it, I'm sure you can find a new much better laptop for around 170£ with warranty and everything.

 

I sometimes sell second hand laptops with over 300 gigs, 2+ gb ram, dual-core and dedicated gpu for like £90, older laptops but working.

 

So I wouldn't buy that one if I were you

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I say no. You can get something like a chromebook, a HPstream or even just look on ebay. My current laptop that has 4th gen i3 4GB of RAM 350GB HDD and came with ubuntu(which I know have it dualbooted with windows7) was $150USD

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No, you can get a much better laptop for even that price. I sold my old Acer dual core with 3GB of RAM for around that price.

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I picked up an old Celeron M laptop a few years ago, 1.6GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM, 160GB HDD and it cost $100 (had a web cam as well as Bluetooth, infrared and a user serviceable design) and it was worth it for web browsing and Microsoft office and that was it (and a few DOS games on the side). What your looking at though seems to be poor value for a computer that is no doubt from around 2006.

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No you can get a refurbished laptop on ebay with a 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram and 160GB HDD for 145 quid with windows 7

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By the gods no. 

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No for £120 you can do much better.

 

For £115 each I recently sold some school Laptops I reconditioned myself:

 

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Nope. I recently got a second hand laptop on ebay for only £30.. i5, 4gb ram, gt530m, 500gb hdd... yeah if you want something cheap just stalk ebay for a bit.

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