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I have 2 cute twin girls headed to college prep middle school this fall and I need separate computers for them. Antone have anything in good condition. Thanks

What is your approximate budget?

Brad

I'll soon have another batch of these T60s ready: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=95994

If you're interested, just send me a PM.

The Lenovo Outlet has many items on sale.

For instance, for $450 each, these are nice machines that should come as new and include 1 year warranties - 18 in stock (at least), the only shortcoming is the 4 cell battery, but you can often find similar models with 6 cell batteries. With the integrated webcam and Skype, you'll hardly miss your kids...

http://outlet.lenovo.com/laptops/thinkpad/0578xf8.html

ThinkPad Edge 14
Outlet Part Number 0578XF8
Condition Refurbished
Processor Intel® Core™ i3-350M processor (2.26GHz, 3MB L3, 1066MHz FSB)
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 32 - English
Keyboard/Pointing Device UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad)
Total Memory 4GB (2 X 2GB) PC3-8500 DDR3 1067MHz SDRAM SODIMM Memory
Hard Drive 320GB, 5400RPM Serial ATA 2.5" Hard Drive
Display 14.0” WXGA HD (1366 X 768) LED, W/ Camera
Graphics Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD
Optical Device DVD Recordable 8x Max Dual Layer
Battery 4 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (Up to 2.5 Hours Run Time)
Ethernet/Wireless Intel® Centrino Wireless-N 1000 (1x2 bgn)
Mobile Broadband No WWAN Supported
Bluetooth No
Integrated Camera Yes
Color Glossy Black
Fingerprint Reader No
Form Factor Laptop
Limited Warranty 1 Year Standard
Manufacturing part number 0578A25


If $450 each is above your budget, then anything in the T60 to T400 line would probably work well - maybe $200 to $400 for complete, very good to excellent machines.

I'm not familiar with this ThinkPad, but the specs look good for a school computer -- the price is only good for two more hours -- it's a Deal Blast / Deal of the Day on eBay --

Lenovo ThinkPad 15.6" Notebook Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz -- $379.99

Intel Core 2 Duo T6670 2.20GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB SATA HDD, 15.6" HD LED Backlight Display, DVD±RW, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n wireless, 7-in-1 Card Reader, 0.3MP Camera, 6-Cell Li-Ion, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit



http://cgi.ebay.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-SL5 ... 0.m2000036

Brad wrote:What is your approximate budget?

Equally important is, what size and weight? If the OP's daughters are going to carry the laptops often, I think 15.6" would be too big and heavy.

I've got (2) 14" T60's for sale. Exact specs are at home, but one has a T7200 CPU chip in it and the other has a T5600 CPU chip, both with XGA screens that are in really nice shape, one with the Intel GPU and the other with a ATI GPU, and both are really clean machines.

Let me know if you are interested and I can get you more information on these.

underclocker wrote:The Lenovo Outlet has many items on sale.

For instance, for $450 each, these are nice machines that should come as new and include 1 year warranties - 18 in stock (at least), the only shortcoming is the 4 cell battery, but you can often find similar models with 6 cell batteries. With the integrated webcam and Skype, you'll hardly miss your kids...

http://outlet.lenovo.com/laptops/thinkpad/0578xf8.html

ThinkPad Edge 14

I bought a similarly equipped Edge 14 for my daughter. It's a very nice machine for a teen getting started. Highly recommended.

I'm selling a 14" T60p (SXGA+ screen is fantastic) with Core2Duo, 3GB RAM, 802.11N, and a hard drive that still has 1.5years of warranty left on it. Very clean/nice machine, and is fast enough to be future-proof for the next few years, and is only a bit over 5lbs.
Let me know if you're interested; I'll have a FS thread up momentarily.

sysiphus wrote:I'm selling a 14" T60p (SXGA+ screen is fantastic) with Core2Duo, 3GB RAM, 802.11N, and a hard drive that still has 1.5years of warranty left on it. Very clean/nice machine, and is fast enough to be future-proof for the next few years, and is only a bit over 5lbs.
Let me know if you're interested; I'll have a FS thread up momentarily.

Do you still have this for sale?

You can ask your girls which notebooks they prefer.

Girls usually like Sony or Apple notebooks which look nice.