Would it be a good idea to upgrade this laptop?

[Braga5292]

Well see i bought this laptop off ebay and i love it so far. It has a Pentium III, 750MHz, 385MB (i think) of RAM. 18GB hard drive (I dont mind it) and it has Windows 2000. Its an IBM Thinkpad A20p. I hope it stays alive for a long time..Thats the only thing thats worrying me. I would LOVE to buy XP for it and upgrade the RAM a little bit but :S Id want this laptop to stay with me for a while if i do decide to upgrade. So How long do laptops last? I wouldnt want to have to buy expensive parts for it and it adds up to be a brand new laptop with Vista on it where u could get it at a store you know? So Should i upgrade it at all?

[Kyle!]

You can't upgrade that laptop, its very old and you really shouldn't of bought it. That won't last for even 2 months, i can assure you.

[Braga5292]

***? how do you know? o.O

[N!ck]

Upgrade the RAM and that's about it. Keep Windows 2000 as it's actually a very good OS. If you run out of storage space use something like an external hard drive. If you could run this scan and post the results please. http://www.crucial.com/uk/systemscanner/index.aspx

How much did you pay for it and do you have/need a wireless card?

[madchild24]

It's not worth updating really.. you could update the ram I suppose..

Edit: Nick beat me to it again.

Default Specs:

Mobile Pentium III/700MHz processor, 128Mb of SDRAM, 18Gb hard drive, 15in TFT display, 16Mb ATI Rage Mobility 128 graphics chip, 6X DVD-ROM drive, 1.44Mb floppy drive, 56K modem/Ethernet card, Lithium Ion battery. Dimensions (w x d x h): 332 x 270 x 39mm, weight: 3.45kg. Windows 2000.

[Braga5292]

I bought it off ebay. Yes i do use a wireless card. Those are the default specs...i guess the previous owner upgraded this.Well i only paied 10$ out of my own pocket cause i had gotten 60$ ebay gift certificate, and 60$ from a website via paypal. So all i paied really was 10$ :-] But the total was 130$. I doubt its gonna die in 2 months. Shape is good. Only thing i dont like about Windows 2000 is that it reminds me of 98 and it just looks horrible :o. Oh and i cant play habbo on it :( Some reason it wont let me.

[madchild24]

$130 For that?.. you mind aswell spent more on better laptop..

Even Ebay has way better ones for little more money.. (cheaper after you add ram and xp to this one)