Quickly. Is this a good buy?

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Is this laptop any good? It is a Sony Vaio.
I will upgrade the RAM to 3Gb.

I can get it for R7000.00

Please reply quickly because the seller is on his way here.

Thanks

# Operating System: Windows Vista® Home Premium
# Processor Technology: Intel Centrino Duo Processor Technology
# Processor Speed: Intel Core2Duo T7250 2.0Ghz
# Network: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
# Chipset: Mobile Intel® PM965 Express Chipset
# Processor System Bus: 800MHz
# Memory Bus: 667MHz
# Cache Memory 2MB
# Pre-installed: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM (One Empty Slot Available)
# Hard Disk Drive: 160GB*5(Serial ATA, 5400rpm)
# Optical Drive: DVD±RW/±R DL/RAM Drive
# Graphics Accelerator: ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 319MB
# LCD Type: 14.1"Wide(WXGA:1280x800) TFT Colour display (Clear Bright LCD Lite)
# Bluetooth: Bluetooth standard Ver. 2.0+EDR
# Front Side Camera Effective Pixels: 1280x1024
# Sound Chip Intel® High Definition Audio compatible, 3D
# USB High Speed USB 2.0 x 3
# i.LINK(IEEE 1394) 4pin (S400) x 1
# Network (RJ-45)Connector 10Base-T/100Base-TX x 1
# Display Output Connector Analogue RGB, mini D-sub 15pin x 1
# S Video In/Out Connector Output x 1
# Headphone stereo mini jack x 1
# Microphone stereo mini jack x 1
# Modem V.92 and V.90 Compliant x 1
# Memory Stick Slot Memory Stick (Standard/Duo Size compatible, MagicGate compatible, Memory Stick PRO compatible, High-speed data transfer compatible)*7 SD Memory Card Slot SD Memory Card*8(SDHC compatible, MMC compatible) PC Card Slot ExpressCard/34 x1
# Compatible Memory Cards Memory Stick (Standard/Duo Size compatible, MagicGate
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Sounds pretty good. But look on some online laptop sellers to compare.
 
APoc84 said:
He received it as a gift, but he has a monster gaming PC and is sitting at home most of the time. So no need for mobility.

I told him I would give him R7000 cash and he agreed.

So you think it is a good buy?
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Very good buy, don't forget to insure it.
 
Okay. Seller is here and I am busy test driving the laptop now.
I can only say. WOW!!!
Not only does it look great but it is very light and SUPER SUPER fast. With another 2GB of RAM it should be flying.

To think I am buying it for my other half. She will be crazy about it but I am seriously considering taking this one for myself and giving her my current HP.

She should be happy with the HP.
It has
*AMD Turion 64x2
*3GB RAM
*250Gb HDD.
*15" Screen
*Wifi + Bluetooth
*Super Multi DVD writer
*Webcam
*etc
*etc
 
Only thing about that notebook is the previous generation specs. Otherwise it's a good deal; I quite like the Sony notebooks
 
sn3rd said:
Only thing about that notebook is the previous generation specs. Otherwise it's a good deal; I quite like the Sony notebooks
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But, with notebooks that's not such a major issue. You want quite fast but light and good battery life - a 2.0 GHz C2D is plenty horsepower for portable tasks,
after all people do well enough with 1.6GHz Atom processors.
 
APoc84 said:
Is this laptop any good? It is a Sony Vaio.
I will upgrade the RAM to 3Gb.

I can get it for R7000.00

Please reply quickly because the seller is on his way here.

Thanks
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Sounds good 2.

Is it secondhand or new?

also check with www.pricecheck.co.za to confirm your pricing on the laptop.

Search based engine comparing prices...
 
PeterCH said:
But, with notebooks that's not such a major issue. You want quite fast but light and good battery life - a 2.0 GHz C2D is plenty horsepower for portable tasks,
after all people do well enough with 1.6GHz Atom processors.
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i decided to keep this one for me and shift the HP over to the other half.

I just tried it with Photoshop CS and Adobe Illustrator and it was going like the wind. I had a decent desktop before and it never went as quick as this.

Very very nice.

Thanks for all the replies guys.
 
PeterCH said:
But, with notebooks that's not such a major issue. You want quite fast but light and good battery life - a 2.0 GHz C2D is plenty horsepower for portable tasks,
after all people do well enough with 1.6GHz Atom processors.
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Fair enough, but for R7000, I can't help but feel like I'd rather get a brand new machine. Something about second-hand hardware that just feels off... Like it's been dirtied (by someone other than me :p ).
 
sn3rd said:
Fair enough, but for R7000, I can't help but feel like I'd rather get a brand new machine. Something about second-hand hardware that just feels off... Like it's been dirtied (by someone other than me :p ).
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Sure :). But then again, take it home and within minutes it's second hand already too :).
 
sn3rd said:
Fair enough, but for R7000, I can't help but feel like I'd rather get a brand new machine. Something about second-hand hardware that just feels off...
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It's only two weeks old. Those two weeks saved R3500 minimum.
 
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