Is this a good deal? Lenova T410 - 1sale.com

[drewgetz]

I am joining the Peace Corps and leaving for South Africa. I need a new smallish laptop to take with me. http://1sale.com/electronics/computers- ... 0-2522bf3/ Here is one for $319. I Like that it has a SSD and I plan on putting a DVD/RW in it for less then $15.

Is this a good deal or is the laptop so old now the possessor is obsolete? Only last till the end of today. I'm torn if I should get this one or wait for Black Friday

Thanks for your opinions.

-Andrew

[rjwilmsi]

The T410 is coming up 3 years old. The CPUs are dual core with hyperthreading, good/great for all general laptop usage and certainly not obsolete. With the SSD it should be a responsive machine. $319 given the SSD doesn't sound unreasonable, but I'm not familiar with prices in your area.

[Neil]

I'm not really up to date on pricing for off lease compters either, but the $319 seems reasonable to me for a high end T410 with WXGA+ LCD and SSD. But for WXGA, even with the SSD, it just seems like a little to many $$, at least for me. Also consider that Win 7 was available on the T410, and this one is being offered with XP (a near end-of-life OS), that would devalue it further in my opinion. Unless you are not planning on never using Windows anyway, then that would be a non-issue, except for re-sale value down the road.

According to the factory specs for this model, it should include a DVD-RW drive:

ThinkPad T410 (2522-BF3)
i5-520M(2.4GHz), 4GB RAM, 128GB Solid State Drive, 14.1in 1280x800 , 256MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn wireless, WWAN upgradeable, Bluetooth, Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, UltraNav, Secure chip, Camera, 9c Li-Ion, WinXP Pro

[drewgetz]

Thank you for the responses. I decided to wait. This one seems too piece meal to me.