Another ebay classic!

"DELL D410 CENTRINO LAPTOP

THEY HAVE THE 2ND GENERATION CENTRINO 1.86GHZ PROCESSOR WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO 3.8GHZ
THESE ARE POSSIBLY THE FASTEST AND MOST POWERFULL NOTEBOOKS TO DATE"

(And yes, it is in block caps!)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-D410-Ne [...] 286.c0.m14

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck. In other words if it's a centrino 1.8Ghz, it's 1.8Ghz. The only way you can get 3.8Ghz is to overclock it and I don't think you can even overclock it that high. That's like saying a dual core 2.4Ghz is 4.8Ghz by adding the two cores together and that is wrong and deceiving. I have seen people on eBay trying to sell computers like that so someone who does not know better will thank they are getting a bigger processor. That is just wrong IMO.

I reckon they have gotten mixed up. That would be true if they added a P4 to the end of the .38ghz.

LOL, good find. I should buy it and do a chargeback. Should loose his Ebay status for that.

What a rip off, i support a customer who used to have these laps a year ago. Even then the laptops were crap, they are too small and didn't work great with simple tasks, Internet, Word, Outlook etc. Slow and poor performance. Definatly not worth 199, more like 50.