How much do the cheapest laptops cost?

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<p>I have like no experience buying anything outside of retail. I see some laptops at ebay offered at $0.01 - rofl - except for shipping and handling. I wonder if those laptops are genuine. </p>

<p>Anyways, I just want a disposable laptop that I can carry around with me to classes and such. Disposable in that I only plan on using it to type things up and to save them to disk. I’m definitely not carrying my main laptop around - it’s far too valuable to lose.</p>

<p>Anyone have ideas?</p>

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<p>You can get some pretty decent, basic laptops for $450/$500ish. My brother just got a pretty damn good laptop w/ Vista Premium for $750.</p>

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<p>But I’m talking about the $0.01 ones from eBay (does anyone know if those sellers are reliable for laptops?) Does the fact that they exist sound surprising to anyone?</p>

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<p>How much is shipping? If it’s not that much, just throw away the money and see how good it is.</p>

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<p>lol - shipping is like $15-30.</p>

<p>Isn’t anyone excited about this? Or surprised? A lot of people have lots of old computers that they want to throw away and that are otherwise going nowhere…</p>

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<p>Save your penny. </p>

<p>I found those penny laptops on EBay and they have warnings about whether or not they work. No manufacturer’s name or any specs. Just a likely broken laptop with no charger or a good battery…</p>

<p>Save the shipping charges and buy a jump drive.</p>

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<p>i know a guy who bought his car on ebay. and it works, and everything. </p>

<p>but yeah, if you don’t mind the money, spending 30 bucks on a possibly workable laptop is worth it. it could work.</p>