What Is The Value Of This Laptop?

Hi, I'm about to purchase a refurbished laptop from my local PC store.

- Packard Bell:

LCD: 17" Widescreen
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 1.9Ghz
RAM: 3GB DDR2
HDD: 320GB Sata
GPU: Nvidia 7000M
IOS: Vista Home Premium

Wifi: Yes, inbuilt.
Camera: Yes, inbuilt.
Drive: DVD Rewriter

Can you please urgently tell me the value of this laptop, bare in mind, it is used/refurbised. I checked it out and liked it, please give me a quote. (Any currency would do, I can convert it to GBP on xe.com)

Thank you!

Screen resolution?

I'd say $600

What do you guys think of the CPU?... Any good for day-to-day use? It has to feel fast.

Hi, the only detail I got on it was that it was 17" widescreen. Nothing else.

By "wouldn't do anything intensive" would did you mean by that? Photoshop?... Basic Movie editing? Light gaming? (C:SS) etc etc?

^^ Damn. Is it not a 1.9 Dual Core though?... I know the GPU is a little week...

The Athon X2's are more power hungry (lower battery life) and less efficient (lower performance per clock) than the core 2 duos. You could probably get similar performance out of a 1.7-1.6GHz dual core chip from Intel.

I didn't want to give the price before so I can get some good feedback on the specs and how much they would go for. Well here it is:

Price $450 - Refurbished.

So it's definitly worth it right...

^^ Refurb... Well apparently it was a trade in and they reinstalled the OS and repackaged it back up etc etc. I already bought it, just waiting for it to arrive. Seen as its worth it, its off my mind.

Thanks for everything.

^ I'm going to install XP Pro SP3 the moment I get it. It's got 3GB of ram anyways, so XP supports everything + 10x faster

When Windows 7 comes out this/next year I would happily buy Win7 and install that to see how it goes.

Well, I'll be 100% honest here, the laptop is not for me. I bought it for a friend, but the only gay thing about him is he likes to "show off" about what he has, when I suggested that I should reinstall XP onto it, he shut his ears and said "Nope, I wan't the latest of what I own."

He just dosn't understand, and no point in convincing him. So blah. Looks like its Vista for him.

^ Screw him, I made a good 50 bucks out of him though. Might as well suck him dry. And it's not evil, its just common sense. He would have gone to PC World and blown like 800 bucks on the same spec laptop, then cried that he spent that much on it.

I remember when Vista came out, just to show off to me, he actually went out and bought it for like $350 bucks I think, then cried 2 weeks later that he was broke.