I’ve received some feedback that suggests my laptop is probably dying, or the display is anyway. So, likely I’ll need to replace it. I don’t want or need a brand new machine. A used one is fine. With luck a friend or friend of friend will be discarding a suitable one soon. But, if that fails, is there a safe way to do this through a third party? Are there good online sources for used laptops? Does this market exist?
My specs are:
- Laptop (not that picky about size, weight)
- XP
- Some version of MS Office installed
- WiFi ready
- USB port
- CD drive
- > 1GB RAM
- Not insanely slow to start up, multitask
This last bullet is vague. I don’t know how to spec that better. I’m guessing the RAM requirement pretty much does it. This is a know-it-when-you-see it spec. Basically, I want the machine to start up in under a minute or so and be able to handle running the Chrome browser, Word, and iTunes simultaneously without trouble.
Just because it is convenient for me, here’s a list of software I use on my laptop:
- Chrome browser
- iTunes
- FileZilla
- ScreenHunter
- Malwarebytes
- MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Adobe
- 7-Zip
That’s it. Other than the Office software, it’s all free stuff.
