I've always bought laptops from Stacy (rwdata2 at aol.com) of RWData in Brooklyn Park. She sells on e-bay with user id sla22. Since it's local, you save on shipping. If you don't see anything you like in the auctions, call her because she has pallets full of stuff. Normally she has 2-4 year old lease returns. -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Chris Frederick Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:51 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: [tclug-list] Cheap/Old Laptops Hi all, I'm looking for a cheap and old laptop. Less than $100. Somewhere in the 90Mhz to 200Mhz, P.Pro/PII range. Hopefully a Thinkpad, but I'd settle for other brands. I'm hoping to find one to load Gentoo on it, and run it as a VNC thin client. I'm only going to load tightvnc, xorg, and esd. I've found a few on Ebay, but I haven't had much luck through auction sites, and since I'm taking someone's word for the condition, I'd rather not go that route. I've also found a few online liquidators that have some, but most want to sell in bulk, and it's rare to find one thats been thoroughly tested. There's got to be more of these out there. Where do they all go? Does anyone know of a local retailer or liquidator that sells to the public, where you can inspect the machine before you buy it? These things are too slow to run WinXP/2K, so their nothing but a paperweight to most of the general public. I would think that they would be going for next to nothing. Any advice on where I should be looking for something like this? Thanks all, Chris _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list