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I just freed up another X20 2662-37G. It has the old BIOS and Embed so you would have to update. I have the X2 media slice with a CD ROM and adapter. It has a 11mb Lucent Wireless pccard, 328Mb RAM and a 20 Gb HD. It starts out with a red tint, but 1 to 2 minute after start up, the tint goes away and the screen is full bright. Battery lasts about an hour or a little more.

If you are interested in an X20, I will sell it for $125 with free shipping. This is a good price for a X20 in great shape.

Is this an x20 or x21? You freed up a x21 but you're selling an x20?

Also, how's the battery? Good-bad-paper weight?

Thanks,
Ron

It is a X20, not an X21. The battery lasts a bit over an hour.

Corrected it above. Thanks!

wasn't this originally posted for $125 ?

Ron

Ron,

It will cost about $18-$20 to ship it, so I counted that as the reduction. I could have reduced the price, but me absorbing the shipping makes is less of a hassle for both of us and cheaper for the buyer.

Rick

rckrchrdsn wrote:Ron,

It will cost about $18-$20 to ship it, so I counted that as the reduction. I could have reduced the price, but me absorbing the shipping makes is less of a hassle for both of us and cheaper for the buyer.

Rick

Makes sense. I forgot about shipping terms...
How about a few pics?

Thanks,
Ron

You should check out the USPS Flat Rate box; they start at $9.00 and whatever fits, no matter the weight goes anywhere with a US Zip code (including Alaska and Hawaii) for the $9.00. There are two other size boxes that cost a little more. A typical laptop fits in the $9.00 box, with plenty of room for padding.

RRhody,

I use them all the time with labels/postage I print out at home. Cool, really killed my use of UPS. BUT "whatever fits" as you say is the key clause. The largest USPS Fixed Rate Priority Mail box is 12” x 12” x 8” and the X31 is 11"x 9". A half inch on either side seems way too little for me. This means I have to go with a home-grown box with lots of room for bubble wrap and shipping will be in the $18 range. If you have seen a bigger one please tell me the item number because I can't find anything larger on the USPS site.

I send a lot of these things to my nieces, nephews, friend, and other relatives. I probably buy 12+ a year and sell them at cost + shipping to loved ones. In fact that is where I got this unit was from a niece I am upgrading for her present for making it into Stanford Engineering graduate school.

Seriously, I like the current USPS service with free delivery confirmation and tracking and flat rate envelopes and boxes, but unfortunately it won't work for shipping a X series or just about any other Lenovo laptop. I also like the fact that if you print the label at home, you still get the free delivery confirmation and tracking, even if you pay higher postage at the Post Office.

Just read this again, it sounds terse and hacked off. Neither is true, just in a hurry.

Rckrchrdsn

The USPS Flat-rate Priority boxes I use for laptops are 12.5" x 15.5" x 3"

I just can't get myself to use them for that purpose. I have that type of box, but .75" of bubble wrap on the broad sides of the laptop makes my feel whoozy. I feel like I am drawing a bulls-eye on the LCD. But YMMV.

Rick

The first time I received a laptop in one of those boxes, I just knew I was going to be pouring the contents out when I opened it but after sending and receiving several hundred laptops packaged like that, with no damage, I've gotten a little more comfortable with the idea.

Well, it's nice to know from someone with that kind of experience. I will have to try it. I have noticed that the USPS doesn't seem to be cavalier their Priority Mail boxes. Hey for $9 it would be nice. Thanks.