Laptops Arena

Who doesn’t want to find super offers and high discounts when searching for buying a new laptop computer? –Everybody, but as these offers are usually limited and it’s kinda hard to discover them among so many stores and brands, many decide to go for some used cheap laptops. Sometimes, when you don’t have much money at your disposal, it is a good idea, but sometimes not. Let’s see why!
First of all, you know that second hand products sold by amateurs are not trustful and if you don’t know that seller’s business very well and the clients, you might get into a big mistake. The used laptops for sale could come with hardware problems if they are not already damaged. The best thing to do is begin searching for a highly rated store that provides used cheap laptops after testing them.
Since you are online now and reading this article, I’ll propose you some web sites focused on this type of business, and we’ll see what they have to offer and why would we choose this method.

One of the first websites that comes up when searching for this stuff is usedlaptops. They advertise themselves as providers of quality used cheap laptops having started this activity 12 years ago, in 1996, and having sold over 20,000 notebooks to both customers and companies.

Usedlaptops offers also service support for the best brands on the market such as Dell, IBM, Toshiba, Compaq and HP. The company’s specialists test all the systems at their arrival and only the ones in the best state are kept and sold to you together with a 90-days warranty. They also provide the laptops with a pre-installed Microsoft operating system, OpenOffice suite for document management, AdAware SE data security software, and the AVG AntiVirus.
You can call them and ask for assistance in case you don’t need what to buy or you may browse through the on-site menus according to your preferred specifications, starting with the price range or brand and ending with hardware components.



To give you an example of used cheap laptop, I’ve search between the $150-$350 price range and found only one model - IBM Thinkpad T23 available at just $350. Now let’s see if the model is worth buying. We’ll take a look at the specifications. Here we have a 1.13GHz processor, 2 card slots, 30GB hard drive capacity, 256MB RAM expandable up to 1GB, enough to run Windows XP, DVD drive, 16MB video memory, 2 built-in speakers, modem, S-Video Out, external monitor connectivity, PS/2 port, mic jack, headphone jack, 2 USB ports, and a Li-Ion battery which we can assume about it lasts up to 2 hours at most.
It is a 14.1-inch laptop with Active Matrix Color display technology and the entire system measures 13 x 10.7 x 1.8 inches at 7.6 lbs.

It’s clear what you could use it for. You can process documents, create presentations, store music, movies and software, as well as play games not including graphics-demanding ones.
Another example is http://www.laptopoutlet.com LaptopOutlet where the cheapest used laptop for sale is Compaq Armada 7800 available at a price of $259 with a 13.3-inch TFT Active Matrix display having a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, an Intel Mobile Pentium II processor of 366Mhz speed, 14GB hard disk, 256MB SDRAM or 512MB, a 12x CD drive, modem, Ethernet, 16-bit Stereo Sound Blaster Pro support, built-in speaker with mic, external monitor connectivity, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMCIA PCMCIA, USB port, the Windows 98 Second Edition operating system pre-installed and 6 months warranty.
The Laptop Outlet checks all the systems to see if they are fully functional, and sometimes specific parts are replaced.

Everything sounds fine if you are expecting old laptop models at these low prices, but you should never forget one thing – always check for the store’s rating on specialized websites where real customers leave their impression about the experience with the stores they bought things from. One such website is ResellerRatings, and if you check these 2 websites I gave you as examples you’ll find out that the second one has bad ratings while the first one is not even listed. People complain about the customer service who is not instructed enough, and about the overall service. Laptops came already damaged. So, to not waste your time anymore you should search for some trustful stores directly on this ratings provider’s search engine.

With the help of this free online service I managed to check and then avoid some scams claiming to be available at prices under $200, and have found the cheapest laptop called V000020090 15.0" XGA TFT LCD. To be sincere, I have no idea what brand is this, but it costs only $295. On the store’s site there’s no product specification list or descriptive pictures. After doing some extra research I found out that it is just a laptop part from Toshiba, so finally I got rid of another scam, and I can move forward to the other product I left my eyes on earlier, the Lenovo ThinkPad X40. These used cheap laptops are available at only $349.99, but to check and see if it may be real, I’ll find out what’s the price for a new model.
It costs $585 and for a used 12.1-inch laptop from Lenovo the half price mentioned earlier is justified.

Coming with a warranty of 60 days, the used model features a Pentium M 1.2GHz low voltage processor, a weight of 3.1 lbs, built-in speaker and mic, WLAN antenna, the TPM hardware-based encryption security, 512MB DDR SDRAM memory, card reader, 40GB hard disk, Intel Extreme Graphics 2 chipset, fax/modem, Ethernet, and the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system pre-installed.



The search for cheap used laptops took about 20 minutes or so, but in order to find the best solution according to your own criteria you’d surely need more time to spend online. Other similar websites include Epinions and reevoo.
Their databases are very large and you can find anything there but how good these used cheap laptops are? –It never knows… My advice? –Get an Eee PC!