Old laptop I need to shift

I have a P233MMX/64MB RAM/3.2GB/12"TFT/No Battery laptop to get rid off.

I am not sure if I should stick it on ebay for about £60 or break it for parts? Its a Time/CTX Cybernote.

I need to raise as much money as I can so I am selling crap I don't need including a PIII 733 system which I will probably break.

What are laptop parts worth? The CD-ROM seems to be worth nothing according to ebay.

 

Easy way to find out is look up the parts on ebay.

My feeling is that even if it was worth more, it wouldnt be worth much more and by breaking it for parts, you risk breaking parts, if you see what i mean and then theres the hassle.

Personally i think its likely to be worth more as a complete computer.

 

Do you reckon £60 as a good little broadband ready computer is about right? It has a network card a built in CD-ROM etc but I have no windows licences so I can either buy a crappy Windows ME one for £10 or just sell it with Linux.

I don't want to stick it on ebay and risk fees if it won't sell.

 

Not sure.... I havent checked the value of used machines anytime recently, so you have got a better idea than me.

That being said, you probably would get that for it...

 

You are probably looking at more like £45 for it because people will have to pay the postage as well. Still it is better than a laptop you never use sitting around, right?

 

Is it worth taking to Smack Generators/Chav Convertors or would they much less than ebay?

I will stick it on ebay for £60 buy it now and see what happens.

I am hoping to raise enough money to buy a nice IBM Thinkpad PIII 700 full refurb which would be perfect for my business. I did an entire C#.NET assignment on a 5 year old PIII

 

Crack Convertors will give you about a tenner for it - they're greedy and they know that most people selling to them are desperate.

Plus no battery makes a laptop semi-pointless, to many people at least.

I'd stick it on Ebay.

I'm hanging onto my Compaq Contura Aero - it's a 1995 486/100 with 24 megs RAM (and one of the best colour screens I've ever seen - even compared to current ones!) - and just about runs Win 95. At a decade old (and still working) it has to be an antique!

As an aside - anyone know what kind of BIOS battery these use???

 

I had an old P100/16MB RAM AST laptop that was a very good machine but I sold it and replaced it with my current one. I found it was just too slow and was stuck on 95, with my P233MMX it is capable of running Linux and Firefox.

I sold an old Dell 386 laptop to my mate for £10 I really regretted it as it was a wondeful machine, it had 1MB RAM (YES!! 1MB) and could just about run Windows 3.1 in none 386 enhanced mode.

 

still using my compaq elite,486-75,16mb of ram,a proper track ball thingy,no nasty externall psu and doom runs fine on it ,along with a couple of other esentiall pieces of software ( 1 still dos based )
I must rebuild the battery pack sometime as its starting to lose its capacity.Even got the full docking station with a funky moterised eject mechanism,olny downside is the lack of a built in network card

 

There is me moaning about the antqiueness of my Pentium P233 MMX with 64MB RAM!

I never said there was anything wrong with it (apart from the lack of battery) but the main problem is the screen and resolution is too small for demonstration purposes.

 

Trackballs rule! Or the "nipple" thingy on IBM Thinkpads isn't too bad either.

 

Heck I'm still using my (mitac 6025?) P2-333 256Mb Ram and 20Gb hard drive notebook, I've got Suse 9.3 installed on it (linux), wireless adaptor, I use it when watching tv, I use VNC to connect to my main machine, this way the power of the notebook isn't a problem, all its doing is windowing your main machine, I was thinking of selling it and buying a new one, but I wouldn't get much for it, like yours AT, the battery has expired, a new one is worth more than the machine, how typical. I agree the TMH about trackballs, pointing 'nipples' and touchpads SUCK, give me a trackball anytime.

BTW, if an item doesn't sell on ebay you don't pay, I've had a couple of things that didn't sell, and didn't have to pay.

 

Good god I never got to grips with the nipple, not able to use it at all.

 

I am sure new born babies would not agree with you :

 

no need to buy a new battery pack,just replace the cells inside,total cost for my machine will be less than £30, compared to the £120 i was quoted for a refurished pack

 

eeek: how do you go about building your own battery pack, dam things a sealed unit.