I got my laptop from a pawn shop. It was right after Christmas and I figured some coked up princess HAD to have gotten a laptop for Christmas and took it straight to the pawn shop. I went to several shops and checked all the clean looking laptops and saw if they'd never had any after-market programs downloaded, then I googled the computers to see the price. Eventually I found a gem for 200 bucks. I origionally thought it was a $400 laptop but after I got home and did some more research I found out it was a $1000 laptop. Score!