Laptop?

[Drumachine09]

This probobly isnt the forum to put it, but i know there are some computer gurus out there.

I have the opportunity to buy a toshiba satellite 2805-s301 for 35$. all it needs is a hard drive and cd drive, which i have. Is it a good laptop? or peice of junk?

[Chrona]

If all you are doing is word processing, MS Excel, basic internet, yes, it will work fine. Any kind of gaming.......lol.

Make sure the hard drive and CD rom is compatible with the motherboard. Hopefully you have all the drivers and stuff.

[Drumachine09]

If all you are doing is word processing, MS Excel, basic internet, yes, it will work fine. Any kind of gaming.......lol.

Make sure the hard drive and CD rom is compatible with the motherboard. Hopefully you have all the drivers and stuff.


I dont play games on it. Just internet and stuff.

[Chrona]

I dont play games on it. Just internet and stuff.

It'll work fine then.

[Drumachine09]

It'll work fine then.


Would it be good for like, watching vidoes like you tube stuff, or playing games from addicting games.com? or were you talking about games like quake, or halo on the computer?

[Chrona]

Would it be good for like, watching vidoes like you tube stuff, or playing games from addicting games.com? or were you talking about games like quake, or halo on the computer?

Some of the flash games in addictinggames are very graphics intensive. 650mhz with 128 megs of ram and an integrated graphics card really limits what you can do. Not sure about videos on youtube, but I would imagine they would not play smoothly. And you definitely won't be playing any PC games made in the past 2-3 years. For 35 bucks though....meh

[Drumachine09]

Some of the flash games in addictinggames are very graphics intensive. 650mhz with 128 megs of ram and an integrated graphics card really limits what you can do. Not sure about videos on youtube, but I would imagine they would not play smoothly. And you definitely won't be playing any PC games made in the past 2-3 years. For 35 bucks though....meh

The only computer games i play from a rom is the worms series, cause it rawks!

[Chrona]

The only computer games i play from a rom is the worms series, cause it rawks!

lol..... :rolleyes:

Worms series are good games, but the ones coming out will just blow your mind in terms of graphics and realism. I played Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War extensively, and simply cannot go back to crappy graphics games now lol. Starcraft is like....*shudder*

[Drumachine09]

lol..... :rolleyes:

Worms series are good games, but the ones coming out will just blow your mind in terms of graphics and realism. I played Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War extensively, and simply cannot go back to crappy graphics games now lol. Starcraft is like....*shudder*



I know, but im a fairly simple person.

[Incredulous_Ed]

The only computer games i play from a rom is the worms series, cause it rawks!
Awesome games!!

[cocoa_pleco]

worms is INSANELY fun.
I have it on my phone

[Incredulous_Ed]

Sweet!!!!!!!

[801]

This probobly isnt the forum to put it, but i know there are some computer gurus out there.

I have the opportunity to buy a toshiba satellite 2805-s301 for 35$. all it needs is a hard drive and cd drive, which i have. Is it a good laptop? or peice of junk?
if you feel like joining another forum, i'll suggest you ask this over at [Only Registered Users Can See Links.] :)
its a community much like this one, full of nice people that all get along.

as for that laptop, i'd say you gonna have a hard time finding an optical drive to replace the broken one. and a new hard drive will run you at least $100.

plus i bet it doenst have integrated wifi. and if it does, its only gonna be 802.1b.

a decent laptop is gonna run you in the range of $450 - $900
this one, with repairs is gonna cost you at least another $150.
and probably another $75 for extra ram, coz i know it will need it.
so in my opinion, its not worth the trouble.

i know all you want to use it for is Office and internet, but i'm sure every once in while you'll multitask and try to run software that will be pushing the hardware to its limits.