• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 days ago

    $50 seems to be about what a large portion of used laptops on ebay go for, so whether that’s a good deal would depend on how nice a laptop it is

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      12 days ago

      50AUD, so ~25USD. I think it’s a good deal, given your looking at 400AUD for something similar at officeworks. And shipping at a minimum is $50 to get it anywhere useful.

      But yeah, definitely not a “nice” laptop, it’s no macbook or surface.

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        12 days ago

        Ok that does sound like a good deal, if it’s comparable to something sold new I’m guessing it at least has 8gb of ram, and therefore better than the other stuff available at that price. But yeah, still, I think there is just more supply than buyers in general. I was looking at stats on the sell through rate for a lot of cheaper used laptops the other week and it’s often extremely low.

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              11 days ago

              It works, and even windows “ran”, but it started to swap like mad if you opened too many browser tabs, even on Linux.

              But it is technically enough.

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                11 days ago

                I have 25 tabs open on Ungoogled Chromium w/the Sway window manager, without struggle, and a few other workspaces and browsers going. But Sway may be making the difference. I think things like Gnome and KDE can be a bit heavy.

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        11 days ago

        Final offer: $15 and you hand deliver it. I’m free between 3am and 3:15am (local time) at the public library in Anchorage, Alaska.