but it sure seems that the prices are almost identical to Pricewatch.com and in some cases higher.

I should have qualified what I said. Remember that rtundo said "I don't want anything fancy. Just something that will run Windows 95/98."

You can find lots of laptops in the $100-$600 range if you don't have to have the latest and greatest machine all full of gigabytes and gigahertz. (Bitt--should that be gigahertzes? )

If you want a Windows 98 machine to run word processing and spreadsheets and maybe play an occasional game or two -- then there is nothing wrong with a computer like this one chosen pretty much at random from ebay's offerings. But, if you have to have state of the art, then ebay is not the best place to look.

tanstaafl.