I'm having a clean out and have found a working eMachine Laptop in excellent condition.
I see others selling them for $100 - https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/sandgate/laptops/e-machines-… (not my ad)
Are they really worth that much to someone or are they just being a bit optimistic. Me I would be happy with a few dollar to go to my drinking fund.
Are they worth selling or is there a better use for them?
Oh didn't see that.
I ended up selling it 1 hour after listing for $30 - happy with the end result.
Great result :)
Picked up a Toshiba Z20t-B earlier today from local GT for $75. :)
Good for the price. I'm not a fan of less than 2ghz CPU, tho.
But it has touch it looks like? So, there's that.
I'd personally put Linux on it to get the best speed.
Good buy! (& goodbye). ;)
@Geekomatic: It has 10 point touch and came with a stylus. Had a chance to play with it earlier and and was surprised with its performance. The batteries combined provide ~8 hours running time which I didn't expect. Spec's below:
Rather than sell it, if it were me I would either install basic Linux on it just to have a play (always been meaning to learn Linux and haven't had the opportunity), or install Windows 98 and use it to play old games that don't run well on newer versions of Windows.
It's not at all difficult to install & run Linux anymore. You just start with a long-time distribution (distro) like Linux Mint Mate, and you'll honestly wonder: why you waited and, wonder how it's so amazing, fast, & polished w/o tonnes of $$$$$$$$$ tossed at it as M$ has had.
Give it a whirl. You can run it on your hardware from a bootable USB.
Me: Windows-free since 2009.
;)
Have to be careful you don't get stung with a 32 bit CPU if you're planning to run Win 10, too.
The laptops of that era also had a 4GB max RAM— which would hamstring you….
Is there a need to wonder/ask whether the $100 asking price is realistic? Given it's still available after such passage of time.
Date Listed:
17/08/2018
Last Edited:
18/12/2018
A first gen Atom with 1GB RAM, and a low-res screen (1024x600) would be painfylly slow to use today.
Not even sure whether you're going to get someone paying your asking price of $30, but worth a try rather than binning it.