All, thanks for the feedback. I'll point him to the new ones on Geizhals. This friend did check <a href="http://willhaben.at">willhaben.at</a> and there are plenty, but asked me to post here because metalab might possibly more trustworthy.<div>
<br></div><div>Sergii: I'm curious -- why do you perceive asking on behalf of a friend as suspicious / negative? <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Philipp Marek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philipp@marek.priv.at">philipp@marek.priv.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 16:57, Chris Hager <<a href="mailto:chris@linuxuser.at">chris@linuxuser.at</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> A friend of mine is looking for a second hand notebook for around euro 150<br>
>> - 200. Should be more or less fast and have 2-4GB RAM.<br>
>> Let me know if anybody wants to sell something like that.<br>
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> It's always suspicious when someone's asking on behalf of their "friend" ;)<br>
> Have you tried Willhaben already? There many laptops that fit your<br>
> description. Try it out - <a href="http://goo.gl/m0Zgp" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/m0Zgp</a><br>
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</div></div>Does it make sense to buy something used, when a new one is eg. €211?<br>
<a href="http://geizhals.at/?cat=nb&xf=12_2048&sort=p" target="_blank">http://geizhals.at/?cat=nb&xf=12_2048&sort=p</a><br>
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I'd think the warranty alone would be worth that money.<br>
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