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[Holly]

Hello guys and gals,

need some advice I currently have an HP NX6110 Celeron Laptop which i brought 3 years ago for £400.

i have been offered and Acer Aspire 5720 Gemstone Laptop for £200. I think this is a bargin NO?

Trouble is i am very poor at the moment! I was looking into getting a new laptop in may anyway. What i would like to know is do you think i should snap this one up or wait and how much should i sell my old one for? My sister has expresses interest but i dont want to rip her off but being a student i dont want to give it away!

Thank you for you help

Holly xx

[cap'n crunch]

for £200 it is definatley a bargain buy it now!

As for your old laptop i would sell for £150 - £200 i think anywhere in that price range would be fair and that way you are getting an upgraded laptop for under £50.

[Holly]

think ill put an add up at college for £150

Thank you

[blacktulip]

sell yours, then use all the money to get the hp pavilion one for £499 in pc world. its an awesome bit of kit IMO. my girlfriend has just got one.

[Black.Ghost]

The one you want to BUY is a good deal if you can get it for £200....assuming it works properly.

The one you are trying to SELL you will get hardly anything for...barely 100 quid (assuming the person buying it knows anything about computers of course!)

The problem is its a very old processor - the celeron range are known to be rubbish. You can pick up good bargains on old AMD processors that are better for about 200. And for not too much more you can get the more modern Intel Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo though - this is the current model)

Good luck selling it - I would budget to buy a new laptop (the best you can with the money you are prepared (or can) spend. Then anything you get for yours is a bonus.

[miniboo]

get an "eee pc"

[Holly]

The one you want to BUY is a good deal if you can get it for £200....assuming it works properly.

The one you are trying to SELL you will get hardly anything for...barely 100 quid (assuming the person buying it knows anything about computers of course!)

The problem is its a very old processor - the celeron range are known to be rubbish. You can pick up good bargains on old AMD processors that are better for about 200. And for not too much more you can get the more modern Intel Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo though - this is the current model)

Good luck selling it - I would budget to buy a new laptop (the best you can with the money you are prepared (or can) spend. Then anything you get for yours is a bonus.

Thats what i thought!

hmmmm....

My sister wants a laptop so maybe theres a deal to be done! id be happy if i got £100 for it!

[Holly]

Little help please...

Ok so i bought laptop is there anyway i can get my software from my old one onto my new one i seem to have missplaced all the discs

[blacktulip]

Little help please...

Ok so i bought laptop is there anyway i can get my software from my old one onto my new one i seem to have missplaced all the discs

how about downloading the software fron the net?

[Silicon Skum]

Little help please...

Ok so i bought laptop is there anyway i can get my software from my old one onto my new one i seem to have missplaced all the discs

There are many ways to do this, I would assume that both machines have Network ports (sometimes marked RJ45 port), so all you need is a network cable, and you can transfer whatever you need. A cat 5 cable will be under a fiver (dpending on length you get).

Another way is to buy an external 2.5 inch laptop hard drive caddy (a bare caddy will be around £10 - £20) and install the hard drive from your old laptop. Then all you need to do is plug the caddy into a USB slot on the new laptop, and windows will see your old hard drive - you can now copy files / programs over, or possibly even run them directly from the old drive.

Caddies:

http://www.dabs.com/...?quicklinx=48P3

http://www.maplin.co...=...180&doy=2m2

This is the one I have, works great (bit pricey though - can be found cheaper):

http://www.maplin.co...=...678&doy=2m2


Or as said, just download the installation CDs from the internet - this is perfectly legal, as long as you have the apropriate licences, or own the software in the first place (it's only illegal to download and use, if you never paid for it).

Hope that helps.

SS

[Holly]

Little help please...

Ok so i bought laptop is there anyway i can get my software from my old one onto my new one i seem to have missplaced all the discs

There are many ways to do this, I would assume that both machines have Network ports (sometimes marked RJ45 port), so all you need is a network cable, and you can transfer whatever you need. A cat 5 cable will be under a fiver (dpending on length you get).

Another way is to buy an external 2.5 inch laptop hard drive caddy (a bare caddy will be around £10 - £20) and install the hard drive from your old laptop. Then all you need to do is plug the caddy into a USB slot on the new laptop, and windows will see your old hard drive - you can now copy files / programs over, or possibly even run them directly from the old drive.

Caddies:

http://www.dabs.com/...?quicklinx=48P3

http://www.maplin.co...=...180&doy=2m2

This is the one I have, works great (bit pricey though - can be found cheaper):

http://www.maplin.co...=...678&doy=2m2


Or as said, just download the installation CDs from the internet - this is perfectly legal, as long as you have the apropriate licences, or own the software in the first place (it's only illegal to download and use, if you never paid for it).

Hope that helps.

SS

Thank you

I think im going to try using a network cable! (didnt think of that) would i be able to copy the whole programs across?

[Holly]

Ok so i have my two laptops and an RJ45 cable.

Now what!

Im so dumb i think i have to set up a network trouble is on laptop is on XP and the other vista is this a problam?

[Holly]

Wohooo! I have managed to wirelessly link to two laptops together but hope to i send stuff over

[Ethel]

I think you need a crossover cable to link two PC's by ethernet without a router in the middle.

You can copy the software over but you're likely to hit problems with any registry entries it made when it was installed. If you registered it you may well get some help off the producers.

[Silicon Skum]

Wohooo! I have managed to wirelessly link to two laptops together but hope to i send stuff over

Oh, yeah - forgot about wireless!

This will have to be quick - I have the flu, and am only just still awake...

You will need to share the hard drives for each computer:

Got to "My Computer" > you will see the icon for your hard drive, right click on it and select "properties" > on the box that pops up, select the tab marked "Sharing" > then select "share this folder" - default will be "C", check "permissions" are set for FULL and "everybody", then select OK. You may need to adjust or dissable windows firewall if it is installed. (if needed firewall is accessable from "Start"> "control panel", under either "security center" or "windows firewall" - and just select dissable for now.)

Windows prevents you from accessing certain folders on one machine, from another computer (such as certain "documents and settings" folders or "program files" etc.) - so you will have to go onto the machin with the files you want, them copy them from that loaction and paste them onto the "C" shared folder of the other computer (my network places, should be listed, if not then "browse entire network" untill you see the other machine show up, then access the C share). You prolly wont be able to copy them directly into the same location on the new machine, that they came from on the old one, so just copy them straight to "C" and them move them to where ever needed, using the new computer.

As mentioned, some installed programs will not run correctly when coppied over, but in most cases you can copy the saved data to the new machine, or install the program on the new computer, then copy the old files over the top of the new location on the new computer - this will restore 99% of all programs to the exact state that they were on the old machine (obviously this will require the installation disk.....which may either be on the old laptop drive (sometimes it's on a hidden partition on the hard drive, with all the installation programs and windows recovery 'disks' - look in the manual or online to find out how to access this recovery folder.) OR you will have to download / borrow the installation CDs and use the registartion numbers used for the old laptop (then legaly you need to remove the old programs...).


Also, as the new computer is using Vista (or Fister as it's also known), you may find that not all of your programs will work on the new operating system - not much you can do, other than buy the newer Vista compatable versions.....sorry.

I think you need a crossover cable to link two PC's by ethernet without a router in the middle.

You can copy the software over but you're likely to hit problems with any registry entries it made when it was installed. If you registered it you may well get some help off the producers.

Most network interface cards thesedays, support using standard network patch cables (non crossover) when connecting direct to another mache - they will internally recconfiger to use the cable as a 'virtual' crosover cable. Only one machine need support this feature for it to work correctly.

Good point about the Registry though - that is correct, a lot of programs make reg entries and will not work correctly / at all with out them - though you can manually copy the entries and import them to the new computer. Think there is also some programs that will do this automatically for you - but don't know how good they are (never used any). Generally in these cases, it's better to install the program from fresh on the new machine, then copy the old folder across from the other machine and over-write the newly installed folder on the new machine - all settings / save files etc. will be coppied over, and should work as it was on the old machine (I've done this with a lot of programs - even games - and all that I've used have worked correctly afterwards).

SS