Laptop advice

[alianzalima]

A friend of mine has offered me a laptop that was given to him but he doesn't need it. It is an IBM thinkpad with intel pentium centrino 1500 MHz, 1GB RAM, has a dvd /cdrw and about a 33GB hard drive. has windows XP professional on it but not a lot else. Looks in good condition and he wants £90 for it ( i think the lacoste bag its in is worth half of that at least!). I want to know if that is a good price and if it is worth a lot more as I was thinking of getting it and then selling it when I go to Peru on holiday and need to know the correct second hand market price for such a machine.
Thanks
Iain

[markwales]

If it's this one snap his hands off !!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OX41-IBM-Thinkpad-X41-Centrino-1-5-ULV-1Gb-XX40_W0QQitemZ6840511585QQcategoryZ3715QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

PS. Has he got any more :laugh

[Win2Win]

Vegy is your friend? :doh

[alianzalima]

cheers mark, not that one but i looked on ebay and found this one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IBM-THINKPAD-R51-PM725-1-50GHz-512MB-15-XGA-DVD-CDRW_W0QQitemZ6840277367QQcategoryZ3715QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

so I will see what it fetches eventually. I did a quick search and the R51 seems to go for over $900-$1500 dollars when new so it looks a bargain at £90. Hopefully I can sell it in Peru for a good profit and pay for our food when there in March.

iain

[Win2Win]

I'd check the Peruvian market for it's value, you'll find it is a lot less than the UK.

[alianzalima]

should be ok in Peru as anything electrical is very expensive normally due to really high import taxes. I can get this in as a personal item then flog it there and if i can't make a decent profit on it I will sell it at cost to my wife's cousin.
Iain