hp dv2500 laptop worth

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I'm buying a used hp Pavilion dv2500 from my cousin and am curious what I should pay.

It's the dv2500 with
14" screen
Onboard graphics
2gb ram
Wifi
Intel Centrino duo 1.5 ghz
Cable charger.
150 gb drive.
Win Vista Home premium it came with.

I just ordered 4gb ram from crucial then ill sell the 2 gb.

Just curious its worth with 2gb.
 
I would say less than $500 being used, and boasting a small amount of RAM and HDD.

Before buying ask him if he has made the recovery discs as the drive may fail and then you will be stuck with no O/S unless you are willing to add linux on it(which is free) or you will have to buy a copy of windows 7(best bet if the drive does fail) or order them through HP(they sell for $66 here in australia, don't know about US price).
 
Even less than that, $200 at most. You can buy a brand new i3 Laptop with 4GB RAM for $499 on Newegg, or new laptops that will smash that to bits for $300-$350.
 
I have it already.
Restored system last night.
Will make recovery disc next couple days if I have discs.

He bought new yesterday from best buy an asus for $450 plus tax.

It's an i3 cpu
500gb
4gb
15.6"
Win7 home premium
Wifi etc.
Best buy even has a laptop for $380 that's better then this hp one. So I'm not sure what to pay.
 
Five hundred is entirely too much for that. A new, higher spec Dell runs less than $500. I wouldn't go any more than $250-300, personally.

Edit: Casio beat me. And I agree with him - $200 tops. Do I hear $150? :p
 
$100?

Next-to-no RAM, CPU sucks, severe lack of 3D capability and a minuscule hard drive = not worth much at all. Seriously. You'd be better off saving your money and buying a new laptop off Newegg or something, as Casio suggested.
 
Well here in australia we pay 1.5x~3x as much as you americans do for the same thing.
 
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Well here in australia we pay 1.5x~3x as much as you americans do for the same thing.
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That laptop still isn't worth AU$500, so stuff in Aus being more expensive than the States is irrelevant...
 
Despite what sellers like to think, second PC parts are worth nothing. Particularly laptops, which are generally on their deathbed in terms of battery after 2-3 years. I have a 4 year old HP DV6000 which was 2k new, I wouldn't sell that for more than $100 now...
 
I bought a DV5 back in 2008 for NZ$1300 and would be lucky to get a tenth of that these days, and that's without taking into account its overheating issues (even after I re-pasted it with AS5). Even desktops have very low resale value due to the rate at which components get outdated - my desktop that I built in 2010 has a socket 1156 i5 in it, and that's already two generations out of date!
 
What would be fair to give my cousin for the laptop?

Also I should give him reasons why for the amount I give him.
 
The age of it. The fact that it's a dv2xxx series means that it may be one of the ones with the wonderful issue of dying gfx cards. The processor is garbage, the RAM is garbage if its running anything above XP, the hard drive is too small, the screen is way small as well.

I'd say 150$, any higher and you're wasting your money.
 
Drive and screen size don't bother me.
I'll offer him $150 since I have to add ram for $50 and a new one that's better is $300 and up.
 
Damn. Try windows update and it doesn't work. Says checking for updates. System restore. Now running hp total care right after system restore blue screen. It's plugged in too.

Dunno what's going on.

System restore means with recovery disc partition. Factory default.

Reboot said raid controller is problem. Download Intel raid driver is missing.

Stupid. This is not raid.
 
Thanks.
After factory restore its been doing windows update download and install for the last couple hrs. Man its taking so long.
 
I think that's a very good call. If you still need/want a laptop you can pick up a very capable one for a reasonable price.
 
What are you looking for? Cheap? As in $300-$400 new laptop cheap? I've found this laptop for $380(You will be able to get $10 off with the newegg's new member code so that makes it $370 for the laptop). Comes with 4GB of DDR3 1333 RAM, 320GB hard drive, and a 2GHz dual core. Good for everyday tasks and comes with a regular one year warranty and one year accidental warranty(You will have to sign up for this but it's free).
 
Never buy laptop from newegg. No returns.

Don't know what I'm looking for. I think low cost is cheap maybe not reliable. Like you get what you pay for. But I don't know.

That asus is what my cousin bought.
 
Weird because i was able to return mine. For a full refund.

There was one time where I bought a netbook and was forced to get the same netbook again (except the one I recieved from the RMA actually worked).

From the Newegg RMA page
How long will my Notebook / Laptop RMA take to process?
Once received, notebook / laptop RMA processing time can take 2 - 3 weeks from the date RMA is received. Transit time is not included in this timeframe.

All notebooks returned will be tested to verify the defect returned under.

If defect is confirmed, a repair of verified defect will be performed, replacements will only be issued for units that could not be repaired.

ALL notebooks returned must be received 100% complete as received by customer.

User must remove ALL system passwords (BIOS password, Windows password, manufacturer restore program password, etc.)

Units received password protected will be denied and return to customer.

You will receive updates via email.
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