Good price for used t400

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alsohere · #1 Post by **alsohere** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:27 am

What's a good price for a t400 2.53 cpu, 160GB hd, ati graphics card, windows 7 pro restore disc and windows xp pro restore disc, dvd-rw, 3GB ram, dock, power cords, owners manuals, extra red things metal things the red things go on?

Wanted to add I am upgrading from a T61, 80GB hd, 2GB ram, 14.1 screen, 2 cpu, and cd-rw.

jayton4 · #2 Post by **jayton4** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:00 am

alsohere wrote:What's a good price for a t400 2.53 cpu, 160GB hd, ati graphics card, windows 7 pro restore disc and windows xp pro restore disc, dvd-rw, 3GB ram, dock, power cords, owners manuals, extra red things metal things the red things go on?

Wanted to add I am upgrading from a T61, 80GB hd, 2GB ram, 14.1 screen, 2 cpu, and cd-rw.

They sell for around $200 on up to $400 on eBay. It all depends on the condition.

#3 Post by **dorronto** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:51 am

$200 !!!!!

That's a very low price in my opinion.....you might be missing parts or there's a problem somewhere..

I picked a good one up for close to $300....usually they sell for around $310 to $370..

If you find one around $200 go for it!!

Good luck,
Ron

alsohere · #4 Post by **alsohere** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:14 pm

i paid 340. it is still under warranty. one owner machine, owners manual included, and some other oem things.

It comes with everything I listed. I have the t61 (with fan trouble, I am running tpfancontrol) it does ok, but I wanted to get a machine that could have 8GB of ram. It is a little faster, a little newer. It would 50 bucks to put 4GB in the t61, and it costs the same to put 8GB in the T400. Also I wanted a dock --that's 30 bucks-- I also wanted to the DVD-RW.

I am not sure if I got a deal, but it is in the price range listed.

I will probably be on this site awhile, as I have decided to go with thinkpads. I am going to take the fan out of the t61 and try to replace the fan with another and keep the same heatsink.

alright thanks for the price info.

jayton4 · #5 Post by **jayton4** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:35 pm

dorronto wrote:$200 !!!!!That's a very low price in my opinion.....you might be missing parts or there's a problem somewhere..

I picked a good one up for close to $300....usually they sell for around $310 to $370..

If you find one around $200 go for it!!

Please forgive me, as I did not mean to insult.

I see that the ones I had on my ebay watchlist that were around $200 did not have the dedicated graphics.

#6 Post by **dorronto** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:03 pm

"Please forgive me, as I did not mean to insult"

not taken as such.....just that 200 is very low...what are you looking at as I don't see any T400's at that price myself? I might buy some more at that price!!

Ron

jayton4 · #7 Post by **jayton4** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:59 pm

dorronto wrote:"Please forgive me, as I did not mean to insult"

not taken as such.....just that 200 is very low...what are you looking at as I don't see any T400's at that price myself? I might buy some more at that price!!

Ron

Here were a few with integrated Intel graphics that were not broken or missing things:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad ... 0796525935
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad ... 0975940424
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad ... 0980300727
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad ... 0940232121

With ATI graphics:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad ... 0848949879
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad ... 0814225704

alsohere · #8 Post by **alsohere** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:02 am

So, I paid too much?

I saw the links you provided. I appreciated them.

porby5107 · #9 Post by **porby5107** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:31 pm

Check out certified used equipment(corporate off-lease machines) at www.ibm.com/shop/used,,,, or you can reach me at my rep page http://www.ibm.com/connect/ibm/us/en/re ... kporu.html

stuartf · #10 Post by **stuartf** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:48 pm

porby5107 wrote:Check out certified used equipment(corporate off-lease machines) at http://www.ibm.com/shop/used,,,, or you can reach me at my rep page http://www.ibm.com/connect/ibm/us/en/re ... kporu.html

A good place to get good equipment, although the prices tend to be high. From time to time they have discounts, 10% if I recall correctly, and extend the warranties for a full year. You also get a 7 day looksee which came in handy the last machine I ordered, it was a T61p and they could not tell me the build date. I received it, looked at the build date and shipped it back the next day when I saw it was in the pre 08/08 era, all the shipping both ways was on their dime.

#11 Post by **richk** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:13 pm

I have sold a lot of them and the biggest factors that affect the price are these:

Dedicated vs. integrated graphics
webcam
OS (those with windows 7 go for more with Vista or XP, especially 64-bit)

Also, those with T9400 CPUs go at a slight premium and T9600 machines bring quite a bit more.

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