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    How about refurbished IBM notebooks?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by reibm, Apr 18, 2005.

  1. reibm

    reibm Newbie

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    I am a student, I have not much money to purchase a brand new IBM notebook. I am not a person who is care much for the advanced technologe,but I want a high quality one, so I am intersted in the refurbished IBM. How about these refurbished machined? Is there any good place to buy refurbished IBM notebooks?
     
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  2. Goren

    Goren Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    if you look on the deals section, there was an IBM R51 for less than a 1000. Pretty simple notebook that can get basic stuff done.
    If you're interested I'm also selling my IBM T42, but i'm not too flexible on the price as it has pretty decent specs on it.
     
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    Goren Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    I think this would be a good deal for you
    http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=414962

    but if IBm is offering brand new older models for that price, that isn't too bad either.. try combining it with the visa discount.
     
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    reibm Newbie

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    Thanks a lot! T42 is much more than what I needed, I just need a mechine to run Word, Latex and IE, and it should be stable.I just visted IBM.COM, and found out that there are severl models (T23,T30 and A31) just for $600-$900,how about hese items? I think this mechines are enough to my application.
     
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    abclirui Newbie

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    Thanks! But I still want to know how about the refurbished mechines, they are much cheaper.
     
    abclirui, Apr 18, 2005
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    They are probably as good as the ones being sold on ebay or Tigerdirect. They probably just came off lease. I'd throw in another 256MB of memory and a faster hard drive. For $700, you'll have a nice little machine. If all you are doing is surfing, office and burning some CDs you'll have more than enough juice. The nice thing is you get a three month warranty, if anything is broken out of the box. I liked this one as it has a CDRW-DVD drive as opposed the DVD-ROM on most of the others. Good Luck.

    http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=8785152&storeId=1&langId=-1&categoryId=2576396&dualCurrId=73&catalogId=-840






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    Thinkpad T41:
    * 1.6Ghz Pentium M * 768Mb Memory * 40Gb Hitachi 7200RPM * Panasonic UJ-845-B DVD+RW *
     
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