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Looking to sell my Thinkpad X30 so I can afford school.

Stats of the machine itself:
256mb RAM, single stick
1.2ghz P3, clocks down to ~866mhz
12" screen
Bluetooth


I have a Dock II with CDROM, a Port Replicator, and a soft sleeve for protecting it while you are carrying it around to go with it.

It's in great shape, and has a Original Windows 2000 Genuine COA.

It does have an error on boot, invalid RFID, I believe, but pressing ESC gets you past the screen, and on the googling I did, it appears that this error isn't terrifically serious, sometimes goes away, sometimes doesn't, but I didn't run across anyone complaining of their system breaking as a result of it.

Other than that, the system is pristine. Cosmetically, it is as flawless as an X30 gets, and the extras are all functional, though the CDROM seems to have a tendency to be a bit touchy.

Anyway, I'll pop it up here initially at $625 -->500 shipped, and go from there.

Pics available upon request -- it's late now, I'll fight my camera over custody of them in a day or two, whenever I get some free time.

Cheers,
-Dia

(I think it might be a record -- 5x within 7 hours)

diademed wrote: Anyway, I'll pop it up here initially at $625 shipped, and go from there.

Best of luck!

diademed wrote:$625 shipped

If it had 8GB of RAM!

Wow.

FYI

Re: Unalbe to boot - error 0188 - Invalid RFID serialization information area or bad CRC2
This is a corrupted BIOS EEPROM, which requires a motherboard
replacement.

Price seemed high from the beginning. And unable to boot initially, hit the escape key?????????????? Now possible corrupted BIOS...ouch...

Not for $625.

Ron

diademed wrote:
Anyway, I'll pop it up here initially at $625 shipped, and go from there.

I got two X31 for that amount one for $255 and the other for X31 for $355.

diademed wrote:Anyway, I'll pop it up here initially at $625

I am considering that price as a typo at first thought.

Good luck. Free bump.

OK guys....lets play nice. The OP might not have realized what the going value for the X30 is.....besides, they can list it for $10,000 if that is what they wanted.......we don't need tons of posts telling him that it is too high for them...or for the going market.

tfflivemb2 wrote:OK guys....lets play nice. The OP might not have realized what the going value for the X30 is.....besides, they can list it for $10,000 if that is what they wanted.......we don't need tons of posts telling him that it is too high for them...or for the going market.

No harm inteneded here. Just questioning the price and decription of laptop.

Ron

dorronto wrote:No harm inteneded here. Just questioning the price and decription of laptop.

And there is nothing wrong with that Ron...I am just worried about post after post of people telling them that it is too high...

I hear you all. I appreciate a little constructive criticism, even if it is bashing me for an outlandish price.

As far as the possibly corrupted BIOS goes, as I've said, I haven't yet seen a case where it actually has caused a non-booting system, or even contributed to it, for that matter. The sole effect of this error seems to be a UUID of FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF in the bios, rather than whatever it should be.

At the same time, I've seen cases such as http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/7144/ in which the problem was fixed with a simple bios flash. I just haven't had the time to give it a whirl. I'm not trying to unload a dead box on anyone, just give full disclosure.

Prices HAVE fallen fairly recently, not unsurprisingly, given that X60's are available now, and that the X3x series is now 3(+?) generations back. Last time I poked my nose around 6 or so months ago, you couldn't buy a good condition X3x for under $550.

In any case, I can go $500 shipped for the lot to facilitate offers, though I don't know how much lower I'll be willing to budge.

And hey, if it turns out too high, worst that can happen is Bill bans me for making all these dang threads that generate too many replies as people express their shock at the sticker, and nothing gets sold.

Cheers!

For whatever it's worth, I sold an X30 through the forum about a month ago for $350. It was in very good condition and had a gig of RAM in it. $500 is asking more than the market is likely to bear. More power to you if you're able to get it, though. As P. T. Barnum once said . . .

Hi,

Just one quick question: where exactly did you look six months ago? Prices in UK, Switzerland or Japan-maybe?

All jokes aside, I think you have a keeper here. If you throw it on eBay you'll be lucky to walk away with $300. A bunch of people including myself has been selling them for under $400 well over a year ago. And, if it was my machine, I'd try to settle the BIOS issue prior to selling it.

And no, I'm NOT in the market for an X30, or anu small laptop for that fact.

All of that said, good luck.

diademed wrote:Prices HAVE fallen fairly recently, not unsurprisingly, given that X60's are available now, and that the X3x series is now 3(+?) generations back. Last time I poked my nose around 6 or so months ago, you couldn't buy a good condition X3x for under $550.

The price of a X30 is likely to be significantly lower than X31 or X32 because it has a Mobile Pentium 3-M rather than Pentium M and it lacks USB 2.0... You can't really look at an X30 and an X32 the same way.

ajkula66 wrote:where exactly[/b] did you look six months ago? Prices in UK, Switzerland or Japan-maybe?

FYI. Here is a current auction in yahoo jp with about 18hours remaining at 36,000JPY (about $305USD). It should close at about $400 or so.

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d74146811

Let me translate the specs:

P3 1.2GHz
1GB RAM
XP Pro with COA with Recovery Partition
12.1" XGA
30GB HD
IEEE 1394
Free mouse and USB 2.0 pc-card

Not as high as you might expect.

Haha, everyone's a comic.

I'm not desperate to sell it, it'd be nice, since I don't use it that much, if I can, I will, if not, I won't be too bummed.

About all I use it for now is carting it around to LAN Starcraft and Age of Empires with my friends instead of hauling my desktop around.

Maybe I can scalp it to those poor craigslist blokes that pay $495 for a 600x.

diademed wrote:Haha, everyone's a comic.

I'm not desperate to sell it, it'd be nice, since I don't use it that much, if I can, I will, if not, I won't be too bummed.

About all I use it for now is carting it around to LAN Starcraft and Age of Empires with my friends instead of hauling my desktop around.

Maybe I can scalp it to those poor craigslist blokes that pay $495 for a 600x. :lol:

Very honorable.

asiafish wrote:
Very honorable.

Before you question my morals, keep in mind that different markets hold different values for the same goods. Being aware of a difference in these markets has nothing to do with any concept of 'honor'.

That's the beauty of an economy. If the price is to high, no transaction will be made. If you want to build an economy of honor, be my guest, but it won't be simple.

In any case, since my price seems to be to high, this thread would probably benefit from being locked.

diademed wrote:<snip> keep in mind that different markets hold different values for prices. <snip>

I agree....I sold a 600E locally last year for $400...with a 40gb HD, 288MB ram, DVD/CDRW drive.

Steve.

Were you holding an AK-47 during that sale?

ajkula66 wrote:Steve.

Were you holding an AK-47 during that sale?

Or the seller already owed you close to $250?

Just got my X30 two months ago for $200 on Craiglist...with 1 GB of memory, 40 GB HD, Windows XP pro, and a docking unit w/CDRW/DVD. It was not perfect...but it worked totally fine.

I really would not sell your little X30...perhaps you could use it as an back-up computer that runs all the legacy XP programs. I cannot give up XP just yet because my slide scanner and a few other burner programs only run on XP...there is no way I can walk away from XP just yet. My X30 is my buddy and it works like a champ.

billp117 wrote:<snip>perhaps you could use it as an back-up computer that runs all the legacy XP programs. </snip>

Do you really run WinXP on it? I have Win2k on mine, and I'm satisfied by the way it runs, but not so much that I'd be willing to put WinXP on it.

What I really need to do is buy a couple 512 sticks before they go up past RDRAM prices :p

With a gig of RAM the X30 is quite fast with XP, but blazing with Win2K. Makes a pretty good Ubuntu box as well.

Yes...MS Windows XP runs just fine. I have used XP pro on a T23 and the X30 without any problems. You can load all the Thinkvantage software without any worry...but it will slow things down just a little. 512 is a must...1 GB is better. Memory prices are really cheap right now.

Windows 2000 on the X30 is fine...but there are a lot of features that XP offers that are not in Win2000. If you shop around, you can find a good deal on XP.

Once you have XP installed, download the ZUNE Theme (do a Google Search) and the Yahoo Widgets and you will almost look like Vista. Dump the Zune background for an XP background or even a Vista wallpaper.

Hate to break this to you and you do need money for school too. But I had been trying to look for x30/31 6-8 months ago and I wasn't able to get x30 because I wanted to get a decent laptop as cheap as I could. X30 was priced around 300-400, and thats only because it is an IBM.

Not to say you should lower the price or not, but maybe it is better to auction it for more buyers and to see the actual price. Either that or just keep if it is not worth selling.

I'll give you $250 shipped.

asiafish wrote:I'll give you $250 shipped.

That's the spirit! No where to go but up from there.

Good thing this thread wasn't locked.

Wow, I should have asked more for the X30 that was sold on here not too long ago.. Gl with the Sale.