Charlie, just my 2 cents but Dell currently has an entry level laptop for
$719. Add the support and it will last you some time. You want to use this
thing for video capture from your camera and an older PII may do that now
but it will be painfull and won't support you for very long. It's like
buying any other tool. If you want to save a few bucks at minimum go with a
PIII 800+ mhz system. Memory is pretty cheap to add to these guys these
days. You will at least get a few years out of that and should be able to
find it for around $400.



"Charlie Self" wrote in message
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Lee Gordon writes:

I originally bought it.
Here's the search parameter I used:
http://search.ebay.com/laptop_W0QQfr...sortpropertyZ1

Just doing a cursory scan I see that as I was typing this, there was an
IBM
Thinkpad with a 12.1 inch TFT display and a DVD drive that just went for
$299 and a working Toshiba Tecra with 12" screen that just sold for $41.
I'm sure you can find something sufficiently cheap.

Yeah. Lots of stuff using Win98, too, but I'm not sure that can be made to
support USB. I think I tossed my ME CD a week or two ago. Worst OS I ever
tried, including Mac OS 8.

Wish I had time this afternoon to pop into town and see what they've got
there.
I've got some stuff that might actually make a decent one-to-one swap for
a
$600 or $800 laptop.

Charlie Self
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up
and
hurry off as if nothing happened." Sir Winston Churchill