Toshiba Trade In??

BeenieCat

Hi - I'd like to start getting some money together for a new laptop, but funds are extremely limited!!

I currently have a Toshiba Satellite, 120gb HD, Intel Core Duo, 1gb RAM.

I want something with more ram, but to pay as little as possible. Can anyone recommend any brands? (cheap!) will stick with Toshiba and do tradein if not.

I paid over the odds for current one, as it was from a catalogue, over £700 :eek: in November 2006.

I just found out by looking on Argos that Toshiba are doing trade ins here:

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/generic/tradein/

They've quoted me £109 for my laptop - i don't think i'd get anymore than that on ebay would i? So i might do this. Anyone seen any cheap deals lately?
Didn't Netto have one for stupidly cheap recently?

Anyway, what do you reckon to the tradein thing? Good option?

fwor

You might get a bit more than that on Ebay, but once they have taken their fees and PayPal have had their cut there probably won't be anything in it.

What OS is on your existing Tosh? If it's WinXP (which it might be if dating from 06) then you don't really need more than 1Gb for most things.

One disadvantage of the trade-in is presumably that you would be stuck with getting another Toshiba, which would cut down your options a lot...

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Can't you add more RAM to your current laptop. I'd be surprised in a Core Duo laptop was restricted to 1GB.

BeenieCat

I've got Win XP at the mo, but have been having other problems which are intermittent. The fan sometimes doesn't kick in, it freezes up even after a reformat occasionally.

No idea if i can add more RAM, i remember looking a while ago i think it does have an empty slot.

Don't think i'll do the trade in, it ends this month and i wouldn't be able to get the money for a new one in time....

I did the quote based on average condition, but they say poor could mean missing plastics, there is a little bit missing on the grille on the side so if they changed it to Poor it's only be £90.

cuppajoe

If you've got an eBay account, do a advanced search for completed listings on the specific model of your Toshiba, to find what they've been selling for.

£90 seems low for a Toshiba Core Duo, though I do not know what your specific model/condition.