What's This Worth???

[jmichna]

Friend is being offered a Compaq Presario 1400 laptop, 56mb ram, Celeron processor (not sure of speed), 5.5gb HD, CD-ROM, all accessories (all very clean, was kept in nice shape).

Owner wants $500.

Looking for opinions on laptop's value.
Thanks,
jmichna

[iNeb]

I don't know the exact price. But looks a little much to me since you can get some nice laptops if you look in docs' deals.

http://www.itp.net/reviews/hardware/97168660977265.htm

I would assume that it is most likely around a Celeron 566 or 600. It actually has 64MB of memory, but the Trident CyberBlade 3D graphics accelerator requires 8MB due to a shared memory model.

As to value, here is a 566 MHz model with 128MB ram currently on Ebay at $345:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=3712

Robert Richmond

[Kc2iLq]

I wouldn't go much higher than 325 on it. My friend just bought a similar model compaq with a p3-700, 15.1" ultra vga tft, 64 megs of ram, and a 6 gig HDD for 390 cash. The guy really wanted to get rid of it, but I still think that was around a fair price.

-Kc2iLq