I love eBay!
by Rob - January 12th, 2006.Filed under: Uncategorized.
Scored five — five! — high-capacity lithium-ion batteries, all in great shape, for my trusty Compaq Armada M300 notebook computers (I have two of them), for US$60 total, less than half the price of just one new battery. And — bonus! — turned out the guy selling them lives two kilometers from my home, so I just dropped by to pick them up, saving the shipping charge.
Compaq Armada M300s are great little notebooks — 1″ thick, 3.4 pounds, quiet. And, since they’re a few years old, they’re are lots of them cheap on eBay.
I’m also quite fond of NEC MobilePro palmtops, either model 780 upgraded to the 790 ROM, or an actual 790. They’re also common and cheap on eBay. (Nice thing about being a writer is that you don’t actually need the newest or fastest computers.) Put either “M300” or “MobilePro 790” into the search box on eBay and you’ll see lots of them.