Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
keith's laptop inquiry got me to wondering about my own laptop inquiry i have for the techies on this forum. i want to get a small, small (12" monitor or thereabouts) notebook for taking to school, for general email / word processing / some photo work (CD / DVD rw would be handy). also would like to do the wi-fi thing. i've looked around on ebay at some macs and pcs. where else could i get something like that set up that is also nice and cheap? go!
This is a perfect candidate for a refurbished Dell (anything really) laptop. My friend got his for $400 and does all of the above ^. It's not ultra fast but it gets the stuff done.
Like this perhaps:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...542208&CatId=0
Invariably all the laptops in this price ranges are most likely not going to be macs. Ironically the 12" laptops are much more expensive than the 14"s above in general.
Macs you can do an ibook g4 for around a grand and change (12" screen) and looks pretty spiffy. All my connections reside in Pmall
