Is this laptop worth the price???

Question

The laptop is a Dell Latitude D610 and my sister is asking $500 for it and here are the specs:

Dell Latitude D610

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The D610 is ready for any road you may travel. This mainstream business notebook is built for serious mobile performance, incorporating Intel's latest-generation Centrino platform. It's also fairly light (5.4 pounds) and has very good battery life (4 hours)—a winning combination for busy road warriors.

Type: General Purpose

Operating System: MS Windows XP Professional

Processor Speed: 2 GHz

RAM: 512 MB

Weight: 5.4 lb

Screen Size: 14.1 inches

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon x300

Storage Capacity: 80 GB

Networking Options: 802.11g

Primary Optical Drive: DVD-ROM/CD-RW

Answer 1

that would be a decent laptop for around $250

Answer 2

In my personal opinion, I do not think it's worth $500.  Of course, this is just an opinion but I'll break down my decision for you.  There are many new, budget-minded laptops that are around the $500 price point.  An extra $100-200 would net you a pretty descent laptop.  Even the basic $500 laptop would have a better processor, more memory, a larger hard disk.  Additionally, all new laptops include a DVD Burner so you could burn DVDs instead of just CDs.  If the price was perhaps $200-300 it would probably be worth it.

Answer 3

if it is dual core not pentium, better than maybe 300-400 would be reasonable