Some equate used laptop computers with outdated technology. That’s far from being the case. True, computer technology evolves quickly but who can say with a straight face that a 2-3 year old, and even older, notebook is not up to the job anymore? A computer salesman, that’s who, but they are full of it, you and I know that. But it can’t run the latest games…true but you don’t get a cheap used laptop for that, if you want to run the latest and greatest pony up the cash for a new quad core desktop or an Alienware laptop.

No, where used cheap laptops shine is in their offer: decent technology at a decent price that can do virtually everything you’ll ask from it. Let us face it, even budget laptops of today come with pretty good specs as standard, it’s like cars….base models of today have nothing to do with base models of five years ago or more. Nowadays, used laptops for sale feature upgraded displays, style and equipment (DVD, CD-RW etc.). Let us have a look at some of these features in more details.

First, laptop monitors. There are two factors here, size of the screen and resolution. Used laptop screens usually measure between 12 and 20 inches. Resolution is between 800 x 600 pixels and 1680×1050 pixels for a cinema type monitor. Resolution plays an important role in the quality of the image displayed by your used or refurbished laptop. Windows displays best with a resolution of 1024 x 768. Don’t forget though that the biggest your laptop monitor, the heavier your used laptop will be. If you intend to carry it around, make sure your used notebook is not overly heavy.

Another thing is the style of that cheap used laptop we all want. Just because it is not new does not have to mean it should be ugly. Thankfully, laptop manufacturer have begun to take design into consideration over the past few year and you can find today a variety of used cheap laptop computers in all sorts of colors, red, green, blue, pink, not just the traditional black or gray. Some used laptops also feature nice equipment such as an integrated webcam, a blue ray disc drive and more. So here it is: cheap used laptops do not mean outdated. In these days of economic difficulties they are the smart buys: a good used laptop will last you years for half or more than half off the price of new computers.

Peek Pronto Mobile Messaging Device with Lifetime Service Included (Grey)

My Peek and the fine folks at Peek-they call themselves Peeksters-have introduced a whole new side of the Internet to me which is revealing and disturbing all at the same time. I, as well as everyone else on the planet, have long suspected what highway robbers the major wireless carriers are and this was only truly understood by me when I first started to work with my Peek.

A text message is just an e-mail that is limited to 140 characters. You can send a text to your daughter or your husband or anyone by simply typing in their 10 digit telephone number in the to: box of your gmail or yahoo or hotmail account and pressing send. Chances are that you are now sitting at your computer: try it right now to your own cell phone. If your carrier is in compliance (and most but not all are) you will at this moment be freed from the hokey, shadowy, slimy world that are the wireless companies.

This is the premise that the folks at Peek have based their business model upon. They are the counter culture mobile e-mail and text message based company. But there is a price that you as a consumer must pay. If you own an iPhone or a Blackberry then you must play the Internet game under their rules and pay them money to do so at a hefty price.

With Peek the price to play the Internet is minimal but the learning curve to use text based e-mail can be a bit steep. Need to know movie showtimes, or traffic issues, or directions, or the weather picture off the satellite, or sports scores, or breaking news? You can do all of that in e-mail. You can even, in a very limited but useful way, surf the internet with e-mail, but you need to learn the language. You need to know what words to send to what addresses and once you accomplish that the Peek can do the absolute critical things that you really need in a mobile device.

The folks at Peek pride themselves in the fact that their gadget is bone simple, and it is. Your grandma can use a Peek in about two minutes. But you, the clever, savvy consumer, can take that simple gadget and turn it into a highly sophisticated information and communication device. All you need to do is learn the language of e-mail.

Buy this lifetime deal. It will start to pay you back in less than a year. You will be freed. You will never go back.