Jukebox Machines

Akuginow says:

I’ve had a 12″ iBook G4 since 2005 and it’s still my favorite notebook for browsing the internet, writing letters, and even reading pdf’s. It’s very lightweight and I consider the screen the perfect size. It’s held up very well. One of the keys has a hairline crack and one of the rubber feet on the bottom fell off but I clean it every month or so and it still looks almost new.

My only criticism is that it gets a little warm so I keep it on top of a clipboard when holding it in my lap. No viruses, no crashes, no worries.

When netbooks started becoming popular a couple of years ago, I had to laugh because I already have a lightweight, handy netbook. In fact, I’m using it right now to write this review. Given a choice between a new Asus or Dell netbook or a used iBook G4 for the same price, I would take the G4 without thinking about it for a second.

Beaver says:

This was the worst computer I have ever boughten! I couldn’t configurate it on the day I bought it. It was SO FRAGILE. The DVD drive was broken and looked like it had been glued together. If you tilted it the drive would fall out! The screen cracked the next day when I sat it “gently” on the table. Im so displeased with this computer. I’m not even going to return it, for fear that someone will glue it together and sell it to another innocent consumer. Very poor quality. I might report this site to YahooNews so that the world can know that it is a SCAM. You can keep your measly $200, Amazon.

Nader says:

First off, very poor packing in that it was in a flimsy box…with…crumpled up brown paper.

Second, seller restores all his second hand computers with Windows xp service pack 3. Well that is great, seriously great. The down side is…he ships it with a windows xp service pack 2 recovery disk! Leads to a lot of potential problems. Basically as soon as you get the computer, restore it with your XP SP2 cd. The thing is!!!! First download all your drivers online to a thumb drive or cd if possible, or else…your done for. Don;t know what I am talking about? Then never buy one of these!

Used computers in general are not for the computer beginner to intermediate, a serious background in knowledge is needed for some of the subtler things that come up unexpected. I’m talking about more than just inserting a disk. Especially if you are going to add office, or other software, or even have to type in a foreign language. Take my advice, don;t buy from him UNLESS YOU ARE VERY very very good with computers and troubleshooting them. Serious, this is not an angry review to “ruin” him, it’s the facts and good advice, I hope you will take and avoid lost time and money, most importantly stress.

Now thirdly…cd drive worked the first evening I got the computer. Next day, running my software fine and…*chirp* *slow scan* *chirp* *dead silence….ok the drive went dead!!! So…I go and buy an external dvd/cd drive, another $60. What was a seemingly fair deal turned out to just be, “you get what you pay for”. A little suspect that the drive works for a few hours and then dies. Not making accusations that he is a crook, however he does have to make a profit somewhere. Sold me junk, I could have got off a popular auction site for about $30, I thought Amazon would have some integrity as it is sold through them…guess I was wrong. Buyer beware.

Overall would rather buy from someone else, however, with some tweaking and a lot of know how, this being the second day, I think I have things worked out. All this seller does is buy used laptops off the internet, set them up with an SP3 back-up disk he has and ship them out to you…for better or for worse….