1. Preferred Brand
2. Budget
3. Usage
4. Preferred laptop/screen size

1. Any reliable brand with good driver and technical support( I just fried my Thinkpad SL410 fried Bios through the official lenovo update page by updating my bios)

2. RM500 2nd hand preferably a more recent laptop

3. mobile picture storage, web browsing and some office work

4. 14 inch as light and thin as possible

So there is no thread or corner that recomends people what kind of 2nd hand laptops to buy?

Long Story short while I was updating my Thinkpad bios it hangged and the fan was running extremely loudly, so I had to turn it off fearing that it will burn my mobo or cpu.

After turning it off by unplugging everything includding the AC batterypack and turning it on again the whole com was blank and the only thing that was working were the turn on button and the hard disk button. sad.gif

I sent it off to repair and they told me that it was the bios that was giving me problems and fixing it almost cost me the price of another lappy cry.gif

yeah have to be looking for 2nd hand >.<

yes the service center.