I picked 2 up for around 500$ total

Where did you find these (Toshiba 1011GAV -10.5 GB)?
Over here (Europe) they are almost US$ 350 each (that's after discount; excl 17.5% sales tax)

Henno

Henno
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Henno mk2 [orange]6 [/orange]nr 6