Gateway Solo 2300
The Gateway Solo 2300 is an older variety of Gateway laptop which can be purchased for practically nothing on online auction sites. While it can be a little difficult to find (a search of www.ebay.com revealed only a couple deals on the Gateway Solo 2300), if you are only looking for a very basic computer, the Gateway Solo 2300 might work for you.
The Gateway Solo 2300 was released around the turn of the century, making it about five years old, a dinosaur in computer terms. It has a two hundred megahertz Pentium processor, compared to today's processor speeds of nearly two Gigahertz and more. It does not have wireless high speed internet capability, but could possibly be upgraded to perform basic online functions using a wireless laptop card. If you are looking for the cheapest possible laptop system to be able to go on the internet and perform very simple text processing and word processing functions, the Gateway Solo 2300 is certainly inexpensive. The deals I was able to find on eBay for the Gateway Solo 2300 (and note, that was the only place I was immediately able to find it) were around twenty five dollars for the complete system. The system itself cost only about as much as its peripherals, the power supply and backup batteries. A new one hundred and twenty eight megabyte RAM chip for the Gateway Solo 2300 cost about the same amount as the whole system.
I also found some lots of Gateway Solo 2300 combined with other Gateway PCs from around the same era. These were being sold for parts and were priced around fifty dollars for a set of four. If you are looking for some inexpensive parts from that era or just like having more laptop computers around for the most basic functions, you may want to forgo buying a more expensive modern laptop and check out one of these models. If finding a functional laptop personal computer for the lowest possible price is your goal, you could probably do no better than looking on eBay for one of these Gateway Solo 2300 laptop personal computers today.
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