New Computer

[ShunNakamura]

If you intend to watch anime, 800 MHz is not nearly enough, especially with h264 encodes these days even at non-HD resolutions - my 1.3 GHz Pentium M barely copes with those

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Hmm... well I know my Windows 98SE, 500mhz, with 256mb ram can't run high definition, but it handles just about everything else with a bit of tweaking around(this includes most games that I am interested in as well). Just about any anime I have ever watched is easily playable(including from the DVD, when my DVD player decides to work) except those in .mkv format. OGM runs fine usually; though after playing them so long(about 45mins to 1 hour) it starts to choke on me.

As for High Definition I have ran into problems with my current rig on some of them(1.8 Ghz Intel Celeron, 2GB of ram, 512mb ATI Radeon); which is sad to me.



However, I will concur that 300$ is a bit much for such a machine. I would likely pay 100$; maybe 200$ tops depending on stuff like how good is the battery, the size of the Hard-drive, and what extras are with it(such as useful pre-installed software, drives, does it have a station[I assume it is an ancient machine if it is that slow, and they usually have docking station capabilities], etc).

Just for a comparison I'll list two recent examples:
-We payed around 300-400$ dollars(don't recall exact amount) for my desktop; used of course. 1.8 Ghz Intel Celeron, 2GB of ram, 512mb ATI Radeon(I think, it might be a 256 though I have it recored as a 512 from when I checked out each part individually), 2x 200 GB hard-drives, 2x Ultra Speed DVD/CD Burner Combo Drives, and it even had a fancy Viper case with it that it all went in.
-We sold a 1Ghz, 512mb ram, 40Gb Hard-drive desktop computer[onboard video and sound, just a standard CD-rom Drive; mainly cause our spare DVD/CD-rom Combo burn Drive didn't work with the spare motherboard... we were going to charge 100$ with the addition of it) with WinXP on it for about 75$.

Things to keep in mind, laptops are more expensive in general than desktops(even used); in addition a good working battery can be worth a decent amount.
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[Discord]

Things to keep in mind, laptops are more expensive in general than desktops(even used); in addition a good working battery can be worth a decent amount.
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~150 USD.

I doubt that the battery of that machine is working though.

[Namelessfengir]

actually bill gates did say that or close to that he said 720kb

[CimminyCricket]

The lap top works fine, especially for what I plan to use it for. Whenever I hang out with him I'll spend hours playing on it. The only reason he's selling it is due to financial problems.

[Endless]

actually bill gates did say that or close to that he said 720kb

<a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/316483_software21.html">As far as we know, he did not</a>. Just scroll down to "What Gates didn't predict".

If you're willing to spend a little more ($500), you can get a <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115369">brand new laptop from newegg</a>. If a desktop PC is fine, you can get <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103054">one for $360</a>. No point really in paying $300 for something that seems to be almost as old as your dead computer.

[Mirage]

If you intend to watch anime, 800 MHz is not nearly enough, especially with h264 encodes these days even at non-HD resolutions - my 1.3 GHz Pentium M barely copes with those :D

Pft, most anime I download isn't encoded using h264, and everything else plays without any problems even if I set the laptop to run at 600 MHz.

[Discord]

If you intend to watch anime, 800 MHz is not nearly enough, especially with h264 encodes these days even at non-HD resolutions - my 1.3 GHz Pentium M barely copes with those

Pft, most anime I download isn't encoded using h264, and everything else plays without any problems even if I set the laptop to run at 600 MHz.

DOWNLOAD?! I feel the scent of a donkey! Probably an illegally immigrated donkey too!

Well, 300 USD is a little much for that machine, if you ask me.

[CimminyCricket]

If you're willing to spend a little more ($500), you can get a <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115369">brand new laptop from newegg</a>. If a desktop PC is fine, you can get <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103054">one for $360</a>. No point really in paying $300 for something that seems to be almost as old as your dead computer.

The one you showed didn't even have a monitor. :c\ The monitor that I was using liked to go all purple and red and a whole lot of other colours during gameplay, so I'm not sure if that's what I want to be using. xD
The laptop has a few upgrades though, a pretty new graphics card, dunno which model, but it's one of the more recent ones, a wireless thing built in, a bunch of gb for me to not store things on.

[Endless]

Count $150 for a <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009088">17" flat screen</a>.