Just Bought a laptop off EBAY!!!!?

Question

Manufacturer Compaq

Model Armada N400C

Screen Dimensions 11.1" TFT

Processor Speed Fast Pentium III 850 MHz

Hard Drive Capacity Huge 10.0 GB HD

Floppy Drive Not Included

CD ROM Not Included

RAM Loaded 256MB

Ports Graphics: Intel 855GMA 64MB (shared video memory) , Sound: integrated sound with speakers , Network: 10/100 Ethernet , Modem: 56K V.90 , Expansion: Type II PC card slot ,

External ports: serial, parallel, VGA, microphone, headphone, USB

Wireless Card Add for $24.99-Add to ebay invoice

Video Memory 8MB

A/C Adapter

Included

Battery Included, Not tested, not guaranteed

Add a Laptop Carrying Case For only an extra $14.99

Operating System None-Not Included

Warranty 30 Days Standard, *Add $49.99 For A One Year Extended Warranty*

Shipping UPS and USPS (Global EMS only for overseas)

WAS IT WORTH IT???

FOR 55 DOLLARSS!!!!!!!!!

IM ONLY 13!!

IM PLANNING TO BUY A EXTERNAL CD DRIVE FOR 20 bucks and also get UBUNTU!!

Answer 1

yes any more and I say no  

Answer 2

yea. eva's right. it does depend on what ur going to use it for. if ur just surfing the web, it's probably ok but it might be a little slow. if ur using it to play alot of games or for business, this might not be the computer for u

Answer 3

It depends on what you're going to use it for.

t78: Read the last part of the question; he's getting Ubuntu.

Answer 4

RAM Loaded 256MB - that's tight, you maybe can't get more either, so you need to run Xubuntu (Ubuntu needs a bit more RAM  - XUbuntu is the same system, but a lighter faster desktop environment) or you might look at other linux distro's too.

It's useable, sure, but that HDD is very tiny - 10GB! I bought 500GB on Saturday for $70, that's $1.40 per 10GB and faster - try to buy a bigger HDD to go in there, maybe 40 or 80GB second hand.

I'm not sure how you will boot from CD - you need a CD/DVD RW too, they're not too expensive, but how will you connect them?

MOST IMPORTANT is a power supply - not listed. If you don't have that, then you're stuffed. The battery is no good, tested or not - it's over 5 years old, so it's dead - and I'm not sure it's worth investing in a new battery - but no power supply is very bad.

If it has USB, then maybe you can load software onto USB and do it that way, but I'm not that clever - I started from a live CD - it'll run linux nicely, and maybe pretty good for internet and using open office too.

Answer 5

Its decent. I'm hoping you noticed the laptop doesn't come with an OS which means no Windows or Apple OS - thatll cost you about hundred+ for either software. Don't expect to be playing any games on this system, only basical internet researching and typing.

Answer 6

Yeah, it was worth it! This way you can experiment without spending a bunch of bucks! Ubuntu, ay? Well check this then,

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xubuntu

2.http://www.xubuntu.org/

3.http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/iso

4.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eah7QXPOP... (Vid 1 of 7. This dude's pretty cool.)

5.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qddueXkD...

6.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGxTTClQW... (Just saw this in my search for my 'Ubuntu on old computer', and 'Ubuntu on old laptop'. I have seen these links before, and wanted to show you them, but not this one. Looks like Part 1 of 5 vids?)

7.COMPIZ FUSION: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu...

8.Wine from WineHQ:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkFIcG6XV...   Check the links to the right, on all the above links, and this one. Ton's of info!