Ifr you can afford it, I would personally go for a new or a reconditioned machine. This is not intended as an advert, but I have used EuroPC (www.europc.co.uk) 3 times in the last year and found the company to be pretty good. You can visit the website but when you order I would recommend you ring them to check what is available. You can ring the company on 0870 907 0800 expect to pay about £700 for a well specified dell laptop with a 3 year warrantee. Cheers Graham ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mandy" <manumandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-Uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:32 PM Subject: [access-uk] Can Someone Please Advise? Hi All. In my impatience to purchase a laptop I have talked my long-suffering husband into purchasing from Ebay the following item for =A3190 with = =A320 postage. We have not yet paid as Brian is asking seller a couple of questions. Here are the specifics and my question is: does this mean it is wireless enabled to use anywhere and, assuming it doesn't have a CD drive which I didn't realise and which it seems not to have: can I buy any small drive to connect to this? Will it be a very slow laptop Should Window-Eyes work with this? ? It is certainly slim and very lightweight which is what I wanted. Details: =20 Dell D400 Slimline Laptop 1.4GHz Wifi 40 Gb HDD 512MHz Item Used Processor Speed: 1.4 GHz Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4-M Hard Drive Capacity: 40 GB Memory (RAM): 512 MB Screen Size: 12.1 inches Primary Drive: -- Features: 10/100 LAN Card, USB, WiFi Enabled, Modem Dell D400 Lightweight Laptop 1.4GHz Centrino CPU This is an excellent example of Dell's ever popular Latitude D400 lightweight laptop. Benefiting from its Centrino CPU giving an increased performance over earlier technologies. WIFI as standard, massive 40Gb HDD and 512Mb RAM Dell Latitude D400 features: Intel Centrino 1.4 GHz Processor 50Gb HDD 512 Mb RAM 12.1" high resolution TFT Screen 56k Modem 1 PCMCIA slot 1USB port Microphone Headphone/ Speaker jacks 1 Parallel (Printer) Port 1 Serial Port Video/ External Monitor Infrared Built in mouse touchpad UK Keyboard Built in speakers Battery PSU and Power cable Windows XP COA( + Microsoft Office installed) Anti virus software installed and licensed. Overall Condition This laptop is a second user laptop and does have some very light cosmetic marks, these in no way affect performance. It is in full working order with all Dell drives and utilities fully loaded. The battery is in working order. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq __________ NOD32 2191 (20070415) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq