Comments on: caveat manūs secundae emptor

By: Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:54:41 +0000

if you’re getting a laptop make sure the battery isn’t buggered

By: Grimer

Grimer — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:18:38 +0000

You should get on Freecycle. Join the London groups and start scouring for TFT monitors, cases, HDDs, etc. You could build a pretty decent system for nothing and then buy a top range graphics card!

By: Lise

Lise — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:04:24 +0000

Use the soup as collateral. On, er, a cheap computer.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:19:46 +0000

£139 for a refurbished PC on europc http://www.europc.co.uk/pages/ProductPage.aspx?PID=125768

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:54:34 +0000

David,

Ebay is good but itauctions.co.uk is better, second user business pc’s. my last pc was from there, IBM think centre (sff) around £90 i think, then just got i better grapics card from ebay for £50. this little pc saw me through uni and with the extra gaphics card, i could run 3 monitors, great for doing my uni work or working from home.

itauctions do have HP workstations on there from time to time which maybe a good base machine for a killer pc.

Ben

By: David Wright

David Wright — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:49:41 +0000

Get the Jupiter ACE, it is the biz!

I’ve never bought second hand and never sold on an old machine, I’ve always given them away to the more needy – in the last instance, my girlfriend’s daughter got an Athlon 64, 2GB RAM and 120GB hard drive, with 17″ monitor for nix…

I’d thought about selling on eBay, but the amount of bad press they get, plus all the scams that PayPal seem to endorse, at least here in Germany, I wouldn’t go anywhere near it…

Given that you can pick up a new Dell for less than your budget, I would think you could get a pretty decent machine, maybe even an old G4 Mac