I need to find a cheap laptop?

Question

I'm looking for a laptop

I am a photographer and a student so I need it for work and school.

Being a student I obviously don't have insane amounts of money to blow on a computer.

Where or how can I get a nice laptop that won't blow my budget.

I technically CAN spend up to 1000 on a computer but I would rather not.

I would LIKE for it to have a good amount of memory, not a huge screen, not big and bulky, new-ish, preferably with a built in web cam though that isn't a necessity...um so yea... If you could provide me with links and sources that would be wonderful! Thank you so much.

-Talya

Answer 1

Just like others have said.. Yes Ebay is the place to go... that site come off to be all things used, when most is brand new aswell... whatever you looking for... all of the new items on ebay are in 100 great condition and work exactly as you would for a full prived one :D i jsut bought a 400 dollar retail straightener for 100 and a graphing calculator for 70 instead of 140

Answer 2

yeah if u want a cheap laptop u should go to these places:

www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/ho...

dell.com

Check on these if u want a hp and u go up to $1000 go to Notebooks+ then Mobilty there shood be some nice 1s u like

for Dell: go to Laptops, then Inspirsion or XPS you can get the new Dell XPS 1510 $999 or Inspirtion 1s for like $400-$700 in any color

Hope this Helps~

Answer 3

Get dell laptop or u can check at the apple store or circuit city or even walmart. Also u should check with ur school to see if u can get a discount at dell or apple bcuz i can since i'm a college student as well.  

Answer 4

You have to first decide the utility of that laptop for yourself and accordingly decide the model you want to buy.

Besides all the website like deals2buy.com, ebay, etc... you can check in stores like Circuit City, Best Buy if they have any "open box" items for sale. Usually you will find decent laptops for less price in that way. Its a good value for money.

Answer 5

You can easily get a great PC w/o spending that kind of money - well not exactly that much.  You can get a good Dell w/a Core 2 Duo and 2 GB of RAM for about $800.  I cust9omized a great system at Lenovo using a newer 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM, for under $900. (http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/contr...

The real thing to do is avoid machines designed to handle dedicated graphics cards - these LTs are bigger, heavier, more expensive, run hotter and have a shorter battery endurance.  For surfing, email and playing media, "integrated graphics" will do just fine as an alternative.

A word or two about eBay - it's no help at all.  That line about the $25 laptop?  Maybe in Ebay.Fantasy_Island.  Bidding may start out at $25 (many of these $1 auctions actually have a reserve of about $1,000 - meaning that no bids are binding unless the bidding itself gets that high).  I used to bid for fun on laptops, even used ones - believe me when I say that these things top out in the hundreds of dollars for even used machines (esp. Macbooks).  Buying a computer is like buying a car, it has lots of different components, and if it's used, they may have their own history (the motherboard fries the graphics card, the CPU needs a new coat of heat-paste, I spilled a frappucino when I went to Starbucks, that sort of thing.)  

The only machines ending up as low as $25 are going to be incredibly obsolete - Windows95 machines or Macs running Classic OS 9 (although I doubt you can call OS9 classic unless you're running it on a dual boot machine w/OSX) which won't support modern browsers or software compatible.  More likely, you'll get a machine that was parted out - stripped like a car for useable parts.  There are few retailers who will test a parted machine out (it's by definition missing the stuff it would need to work), and you'll spend way over $25 on shipping those parts, assuming you can get them (some notebook components are very specific to a specific model - they're not as interchangeable as desktops).

Worst of all, laptops are magnets for the most gullible victims of eBay account Hijacking Fraud - scammers (typically from outside the USA) will hack their way into other people's legitimate accounts and post bogus auctions under them.  Victims see good feedback and think they've found a trustworthy guy.  The most obvious sign - scammers want you to contact them by email outside of eBay for the "buy it now price".  You can get items without bidding by paying a "buy it now" price, but these auctions actually have a buy-it-now button on their auction page - scam auctions don't.  The real account holders are kept in the dark because the scammers trick potential customers into contacting them directly by email (almost always a Yahoo, GMail or Hotmail address) - messages that don't go through eBay's "ask seller a question" link don't get bounced to the real account holder's outside email address, warning him of the hijacking.  Some somewhat clever hijackers hide their email links to avoid that most obvious sign of a scam (they'll put it under the "ask seller" button, so clicking it will open an Outlook window.  Other obvious signs of hijacking - poor english, prices quoted in currencies other than the reguistered account holder's (why would a British seller wants dollars) or payable in "USD" when posted in an American account (who in America says "USD"?)  You can click on the seller's "other items" - hijackers will typically post numerous auctions for high-profile goods all with the same starting price.  Some hijackers will hack old accounts that have been dormant and are now selling more Inspirons than Circuit City - If an account has been dormant, fraud will likely escape the account holder's attention; also, there won't be any other auctions posted by the account holder - the legit auctions will be obviously distinct from those of the hijacker.  Still other scammers will choose to infiltrate active accounts knowing that these look more legit.

Finally, it is possible to get a genuine laptop auction on eBay, but the consumer demand is strong enough to keep you from getting any real bargains.  Remember, bidding is a function of consumer demand, and demand will prop bidding prices so high that they're within spitting distance of something you can get in a brick and mortar store.

In short, eBay is no place to buy a laptop.

Good luck.

Answer 6

go on http://ebay.com and simply just find a good looking laptop for a good price and bid on it. U can get a really good laptop for $25 if your lucky! LOL have fun!

Answer 7

The Dell Inspiron is perfect for you.

It has all the stuff you want for $599 at Future Shop.

You could also buy it from Dell for a bit more.