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Sold/Expired WTB: Two older laptop computers

Kestrel

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Am looking for two inexpensive older low-end laptops to replace my ancient machines (primarily for web browsing).
Budget is approx. $100 each.

Larger laptop: 15.5" screen, 17" screen ideally

  • Motherboard must be compatible with at least 8GB of ram (i.e. excludes most pre-2009 machines, of which my current ones are)
  • Numerous examples are on Craigslist in Oregon for ~$100 or so; $120 even gets a smaller SSD, for example.
Ultraportable: 11.5" screen

  • Lenovo N23 / 11e or similar; 64gb eMMc HD at a minimum
  • The ~$70 (eBay) Lenovo N22's are perfect except for their 32gb eMMC drives, IMO
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Any versions of Windows - I am experienced with OS reinstalls/upgrading.
They will need to be compatible with 64-bit Win10 though - a brief Google search excludes the ~$80 'transition' 64-bit Dell E6400's, for example.

Not looking for macs or Chromebooks.

Please keep in mind that I am looking for old & inexpensive hardware - my current Win7 machines date from 2008 or earlier and are maxed out with 2GB or 4GB of RAM.

Maybe there is something out there collecting dust while waiting to be dropped off at Goodwill, that sort of thing. ;)

Thank you,

Edit: This post was composed on my circa-2004 Dell 700m; 1x1.6GHz w/ 2GB of 333MHz DDR1 ram. :eek:
 
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I picked up a couple x220 thinkpads. Paid around $100 each. They were both "refurbished" at the Lenovo factory from what I could tell. I purchased them from Amazon. Ended up replacing both hard drives with SSD. Also run a 250gb mSATA from the network adaptor port giving me the ability to run 2 operating systems on the same machine from separate drives. I run linux from one drive and windows 7 from the other. They both have i5 processors with 8 gigs memory. Still going strong 2 years later. I use one for amature radio and gave the other to my wife. Anyways, might be worth checking Amazon.
 
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