old laptop

[yesto2]

I have an old laptop... It is a Texas Instrument Extensa 616. It has 2GB, 133MHz, 16MB, windows 95, a cd drive, and floppy drive that can be plugged in. It has all the software needed. I am wondering what I could get for this...I heard people like these as collector items.

[ArcticFox]

I'd say $20-25 would be what many TIMO members would pay (myself included). Hell I'd buy it from you if I wasn't so broke.

[NotQuiteHere]

I'd love to have it..... I don't know what its worth though. Me personally.... I'd say I've seen ones like that goo for $100-$200

[NotQuiteHere]

ArcticFox is right.... a lot of people won't give more than $50 for it..... I was just telling you what I have seen some like it go for.....

[ArcticFox]

Hehe he has a point - ancient laptops can go for a lot of money. Alright, I take my comment back. Say $40.

Edit: Here's what I mean when I say they fetch a tonne of money:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=3712

[pelicanman]

The only way that some older notebooks might possibly be "collectible" is to be virtually unused, absolutely pristine, and come with the box and all the packing. Most older notebooks, so far as I can see, are essentially considered bothersome doorstops and are not "collectible" in any significant way. Now if a notebook was the "first" in a particular category and had some "history of computers" import that might be a different story, but I donlt think the Extensa qualifies as anything but a standard run of the mill notebook

In operational terms 133 mhz notebooks are so (relatively) ancient their utility is very limited. $ 25 - $ 35 as other have said.

[jesseejames]

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