My mom's co-worker and her husband are wanting to sell a laptop they have and I'm quite interested in it. It's still in the box, they had gotten two of them as a his and hers deal and decided they only needed the one, so now they're trying to sell it. I'm not sure exactly when they got it or how much they paid for it.

It's a dv9074cl entertainment notebook, and the full specs can be seen [here].

The problem is the asking price...they're saying $1000, which is quite crazy for a laptop that is well over a year old and is running an older version of Windows (Media Center instead of Vista which is the new standard, and that's perfectly fine with me). I'm really impressed with the specs but I'm trying to talk them down to a more reasonable offer (they're nuts if they think they're gonna get the full $1000 on eBay, let alone the security of a guaranteed payment). I've given them the arguments I just mentioned, but I'm still waiting to hear back from them.

I've been having a hard time finding much info on it since it is an older model, but I've asked around and I'm getting numbers ranging from $650 to no more than $850. I'm also throwing in other stuff to barter with, in addition to offering cash.

I'm trying to find more convincing info I can throw at them to justify lowering the price, but am having trouble doing so. Help and advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.