If you look at Amazon you can find refurb laptops for 200 to 250 for very
similar specs. For me to be interested (as an example) I would want to know
how much life it would have left. Does it have an msata slot? Can it be
expanded in some way. I would not suggest pouring money into it to make it
sell unless you have the parts spare. An for me a 5400rpm drive is a turn
off.

Take advantage of the fact it is an unknown brand and look for the things
it can do that a Dell might not. It might help you keep the numbers up.
On Dec 5, 2015 12:39 PM, "David Schwartz" <newsletters@thetoolwiz.com>
wrote:

> I agree with that Steve says.
>
> Actually, your best bet is to replace the HDD with an SSD drive.
>
> You’ll be amazed at how much faster it runs.
>
> -David
>
>
>
> > On Dec 5, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 11:24:40 -0700
> > "Snyder, Alexander" <alex@misteralexander.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Howdy!
> >>
> >> I need some help pricing a laptop. It's 5 years old, but I had it
> >> custom made in 2010, to get the best out of it.
> >>
> >> It's a black, no-brand, Core i5, 15", 12GB DDR3, 120GB HDD.
> >>
> >> It came with 8GB of memory, but I upgraded it to 12 very recently.
> >>
> >> It's been my main Linux box, except for a 6 month span where I went
> >> "Slumming" with Win7, LOL.
> >>
> >> I'm thinking it's worth around $500, but I'd like your input!
> >>
> >> Here is a photo:
> >> https://goo.gl/photos/CrqMr7hZikbihXcF7
> >
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > Here's my input:
> >
> > Keep it. Never sell it. Use it til it drops.
> >
> > 12GB of RAM is almost never attainable new under $600, but people don't
> > care about RAM (except me). 120GB HD means very little room for VMs and
> > even data. The fact that it's a 2010 means it's probably built sturdier
> > than today's macbook air imitators, and that's a good thing. But not in
> > the marketplace.
> >
> > Here's my input --- go poking around /proc/cpuinfo and find out whether
> > it's set up for hardware virtualization. If so, get yourself a 5400 RPM
> > (for cool running) 1T disk and put it in there. IIRC by 2010 everyone
> > had switched from IDE to sata, so this should be no problem. You'll
> > have a kickass machine that maybe might get CPU bound a little more
> > than others.
> >
> > If you *really* want to speed this thing up, throw in a 256GB SSD, and
> > get an external USB spinning disk to hold big data.
> >
> > When you have a laptop that runs Linux, you have a very valuable asset:
> > A laptop you know for sure runs Linux. Keep it!
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques
> >     of the Successful Technologist
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
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