what's the cost on a used Dell Latitude Laptop

Hi everyone,

Can someone(s) give me some input on how much a used Latitude D610 would cost nowadays? I'm planning on buying one from a friend but do not know what a good price range ($US) would be.

Specs:
Pentium M 1.73 Ghz CPU with intregated intel video card
512 RAM
40GB HD
14" screen (I believe this is the xga ver)
cd-rw/dvd rom
good condition, well maintained.
and roughly a year old.

Thanks for your help. talk to you soon

 

A good source for prices would be eBay, pricewatch.com, the Dell Outlet, and good old Google.

 

Hello, welcome.

Probably $700.

JC

 

personally, i would pay maybe 350 bux for that.

some people will call me crazy for saying that, but this is my reasoning...

first, if i'm buying a used computer, i'm assuming some risk because i have no idea how the previous owner treated it, this means i want a serious discount. that means i would pay maybe 350 bux because the closer you get to 500, 600 dollars, then you're in the range where you can just buy a new notebook with newer tech (dual core cpu).

secondly, the pentium M had made way for the core duo and core solo processors, so you're buying old tech (as previously mentioned).

thirdly, the 610 is an outdated model. it has been replaced by the 620.

fourth, that's a tiny hard drive. if you want to upgrade, you're going to have to drop another 50-100 bux meaning you're climbing back up into new-notebook-price-range.

in any case, call me crazy, but if i was buying a used notebook with a previous gen cpu and a tiny HD, then i want a deal. and to me a deal means paying way less than i normally would in exchange for assuming the risk of buying a used computer.

 

I'd say 350 is a bit of a low ball, I think it's good for about $500-600. Old notebooks still sell for a couple hundred as long as they work. I just checked out ebay, the Latitude C600 (three-generations old?) with the P3 with worse specs are still selling between $200-300.

He did say this was a known friend so he does know it's condition, mentioned it right in his post. It's also a Latitude, standard 3-year warranty so it's still got 2 years left and more than a cheap consumer notebook is gonna come with.

The D620 similarly equipped but with the Core Duo is still $966, 40-50% off for the last gen seems pretty fair. Batteries are cheap too, $100US will get you a new main and secondary battery. How many Core Duo laptops are gonna give you 6+ hours without shelling a whole lot more?

 

like i said, this is what "I" would pay based on the reasoning i outlined.

if you drop 500-600, then another 100 for the battery, then get a bigger/faster HD for another 100, now you're up to 700-800. why not just get a new computer for that much.

anyways, that's the way i would do it.

the way i see it, it's not a matter of "is this friend's computer a good deal", it's a matter of "what's the best computer i can get for $x.xx?"

 

I wouldn't pay anymore than $400 for it unless it was still under warranty. And even then I still most likely would just buy one from dell outlet. You can get some crazy under $500 deals for a refirbished laptop with a warranty with better specs than the one you have listed.

 

I totally agree with drumfu and jason.
I wouldn't pay anymore than 400.

 

I paid a little over 800 for my scratch and dent e1505 though dell outlet, with core duo 1.6, 1gig ram, 60 gig 7200 rpm hd, 128 meg ati x1300, 8x dvd burner, 9 cell batt, intel pro wireless, bluetooth, audigy, and 15.4 wsxga+, with dells standard warranty, so 700 seems kinda high for that by comparrison

 

yeah, it's a sad lesson in how fast computers become outdated