How much are you looking to spend?
In 2003, I bought a second-hand IBM PII-266 from a shop called Simply Laptops
in Scottsdale. They seemed nice enough (sold it to me with a DOA battery,
and they replaced it with a new one). It cost me 300 at the time; dunno what
they have now.
Older Toshibas and IBMs have very good reputations for reliability; I
personally now lean to IBM cos I love the eraser pointer. Check the memory
expandability. I maxed out mine with 96M!
I'm not sure if early USB hardware was always 1000 percent functional. I
never needed a USB device for mine (PCMCIA 802.11b card was enough)
For like USD 500, Fry's often has their house-brand laptops ("Great Quality"
:D) with like VIA C3 processors at 1200MHz; these perform far weaker than
their clock speed indicates (maybe like a PIII-600 or 900) but they'll be
warrantied, and come with WinXP and a new battery I'd expect. Adding more memory
might be cheaper too... you could probably bump one to 512M inexpensively.
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