Right, I want a laptop, but not to use with wireless internet, or play games on - or well, for pretty much anything really.

I want it to act as an MP3 player basically. I play drums (as some might know) and tapes just ain't cutting it anymore! It takes too long to copy music onto tapes and then find tracks on cassettes using an old stereo, when I want to play to them while drumming.

So, the idea is get a cheap lappy, load up WMP and a bunch of MP3's to play too.

Now, I hear you all saying "just get an mp3 player you plank!" but there is reason to my madness!

The other thing I would like it to be able to do is allow me to record audio onto it (using a sound recorder type programme). I would probably need an external sound card for this (PCI cards are available for what I want) tho the std line in would suffice for the mo....

The only thing is the actual spec of the lappy.

I have found a cheap one on fleabay, which ends real soon. It's in my price range (£50 is all I have available to spend on a lappy for this purpous) but the spec ain't great;

266 MHz Pentium 1
64mb Ram
10gb HDD
Win 98
Floopy drive (need to get the interchangeable CD-ROM drive so as to be able to load MP3's onto it easily)

Whilst 266mhz and 64mb is poverty spec by todays standards, it's probably enough to run WMP with MP3's, but I am not sure if it is enough to let me record onto it....

Any idea's? Don't wanna spend £50 odd quid if this ain't gonna do it, but at the same time, I am loathed to spend decent money (£100-£150 on a "good spec" lappy what won't get used much and only for very little....

 

It'll depend what sound card is in it m8.

 

Should think that would do it all, your not asking much of it are you!

As said though, check what sound is in it since everything you want it for is sound based

 

I think you are on the border to play mp3s on a 266mhz P1.

you may find it skips and jumps trying to keep up. especially if you attempt to do anything else on the laptop at the same time - like move the mouse.

 

Your joking? didnt think it would be that bad myself

 

.mp3's weren't around in the day's of 266mhz cpu's

 

You would want a PIII 500 like the one i have just thrown away

 

That's handy Adrian

 

yeah, only needed a keyboard too!

 

I've got a spare one of them

 

For a Dell CPx?

£120 new from Dell..

We buy a new laptop, where is the logic

 

Adrian you bastid Thats made me feel much better! Specially considering there has been a thread in "Items Wanted" for ages now by me saying I want a lappy

 

No, I have a normal PS2 keyboard which I'm sure you could connect up

 

I think a 266Mhz with 64MB Ram would just about cut the mustard aslong as you had a nice lightweight os on there like Win95 and had no other startup items!

I had a 100Mhz Toshiba with 48MB Ram which I installed Win95 onto, that played MP3s under 128kbps.

If You could pickup something with say a 500Mhz Processor, 128mb ram... you'd be laughing.