[TriLUG] sources of second hand laptops?

[Nick Goldwater]

----- "Andy Random" <andy.random at gmail.com> wrote:

| From: "Andy Random" <andy.random at gmail.com>
| To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
| Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:53:37 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
| Subject: [TriLUG] sources of second hand laptops?
|
| Hi,
| 
| I want to buy a laptop for a friend in NC and install Linux (most
| likely 
| Ubuntu) to give her an introduction to Linux.
| 
| As noted before I'm in England, but will be visiting NC in April. I
| could 
| buy a laptop here and take it with me, I know of several place in the
| UK 
| that sell second hand/refurbished laptops at reasonable prices, but
| that 
| would mean an English KB and paying UK sales tax (VAT) at 15%... so I
| was 
| wondering if it might be better to arrange the purchase of the machine
| in 
| the US, and just install Linux while I'm there.
| 
| However I don't have a clue where to start looking (google aside) or
| which 
| sites might be reputable dealers and which ones might be rip off 
| merchants.
| 
| Any recommendations for sellers of second user laptops? I'm looking
| for a 
| machine somewhere in the 1.4-2.0GHz range with 512MB or 1GB RAM, at
| least 
| a 30 GB HD and at least a CD (preferably DVD) drive.
| 
| All suggestions of sites to look at or even sites to avoid gratefully
| 
| received.
| 
| Thanks,
| 
|    Andy

Years ago the company I worked for would sell pallets of old PCs (IE Refresh) to retrobox which is dba http://www.intechraoutlet.com/home/ -- Might be worth a look.

Nick