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Offline Highmac

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Which used laptop?
« on: April 28, 2003, 06:11:00 AM »
We'd been looking for some time at buying a laptop, simply to use in different parts of the house more easily than moving the iMac. I took a closer look at the UK reseller site that Kelly gave a link to recently, and found this page of refurbished Mac laptops. Since cost is very much a consideration, I'd value opinions on what would be the lowest spec machine we should look at to run VPC3 (Win 98) and IE 5 (dial-up) and OS9.1. As I said earlier, the aim is to use it in the house, mostly, so battery life is not too important. Reliability is, however! And USB would obviously make life easier.
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« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2003, 10:08:00 AM »
Well. As to surfing the web and such.  

I'd say the 3400 or newer.

Don't know about USB Options for the older laptops.

The kicker is running VPC.

Haven't done it, but acceptable is probably Pismo or newer.

Hard to tell from this.

Are there any newer iBooks?

Clamshell would be ok for surfing IMO. But not VPC.

http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarr...3/11/index.html

Older article. Lower prices now.

http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarr...6/25/index.html

My 2 pence.
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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2003, 03:50:00 PM »
Lombard or newer for USB... I don't believe my sister's Wallstreet has USB...
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« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2003, 04:12:00 PM »
kelly:
 
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"My 2 pence"!
Very punny!!  Good show, old chap!!
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« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2003, 01:25:00 AM »
Oh my goodness.... links, links, links....    Many thanks for info, folks - still stuck with dial-up, so it'll take a while to check them all out.

I'll let you know how we get on...
Thanks again.
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