Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 02:38:02 -0500
From: "E. Smith \(Sony\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [LIB] What are L50s and L100s worth these days?

I just paid $275US + shipping for:

Overclocked L50 (100MHz)--perfect condition and CLEAN
32MB RAM
4GB hard drive
128MB PCMCIA SuperDrive (new in box--never opened)
standard floppy drive
Enhanced Port Replicator
Docking strip
Original box, manuals, etc., but NOT the original CD(s).
Win95 CD (not original)
Camcorder battery (see fixup.net for instructions on how it was adapted for
the L50)
Standard battery
Extended Battery
Sony PCMCIA CD-ROM drive (which works with RedHat 7.1 installer!!!)
28.8 faxmodem (hey, it's better than nothing)
Original 810MB hard drive (removed, of course)

And he threw in a 2.5"->3.5" hard drive adapter for $10 so I can easiliy
install Linux from a "big" computer and then pop the drive back in the
Libretto.

I'm extremely happy with the deal.

I figure I could part it out and get $500 for everything. Not bad. I tried
to get several people at work to buy it, but no one wanted it. So I just HAD
to buy it myself.

-e.

-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 5:30 AM
To: Libretto
Subject: Re: [LIB] What are L50s and L100s worth these days?


Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 18:28:33 +0800
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] What are L50s and L100s worth these days?

At 01:59 AM 17/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:59:23 -0800
>From: "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: What are L50s and L100s worth these days?
>
>I have an L50 and L100 I need to get rid of (need the money, have an
>L110 I'll keep), and I'm wondering what a fair price is for each.

Just to give you an idea ... I paid $750AUD (about $375USD) for my L50 a
month and a bit ago (after which I joined this list!) but it came with a
whole pile of stuff:
- both the standard docking bar and the enhanced port replicator
- 56k Xircom Realport modem with all cables
- power supply
- floppy drive
- Teac 10x PCMCIA CD-ROM drive
- Canon BJC80 mini IR printer with both print heads, power supply, a few
spare ink cartridges, carry case PLUS a scanner head
- all original diskettes and CDs for printer, scanhead, laptop, etc.
- all manuals for all the major bits and pieces plus (expired!) warranty
cards, receipts, cleaning sheets, etc.
- Other bits and pieces (keyboard, mouse, disk box, etc.)
However it only has the original 770MB HDD and 16 meg RAM in it. It doesn't
have any bad pixels however nor does the libby or any of the other bits and
pieces show any signs of being dropped (not a single scratch on the case or
screen, none of the corners had 'flat spots' which would be a sure sign of
being dropped, no rattles in the CD or printer) - apart from being a little
bit dirty it was in what I could see as perfect condition. It wasn't
overclocked (in fact I couldn't see any signs of it ever being opened). The
battery was also in pretty good condition, I got 1 hour out of it when I
turned everything on and kept the hard drive thrashing, stretched it to 1.5
hours using it carefully.

You could probably get a good estimate of a fair price by subtracting how
much you recon the CD, modem and printer would be worth, subtracting a bit
perhaps to account for it having been dropped and missing pixels, then
adding the hard drive, RAM and battery packs in. I'd estimate it'll probably
get you perhaps $450-$550AUD ($225-275USD) but then again that'll be in an
Australian environment where there is a premium for relatively rare
technology (because the market is so small here). Your mileage may vary in
the US or Europe.


Hope this helps!

- Raymond

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