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braunshade
Joined: 19 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:20 am Post subject: I'm thinking of buying a refurbished laptop online........ |
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There are such great deals! Less than US$400 with a 6 month warranty! ! Shipping to Korea is around US$70 and takes less than a week to arrive.
What do you think? Have you done this? |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:25 am Post subject: Re: I'm thinking of buying a refurbished laptop online...... |
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| braunshade wrote: |
There are such great deals! Less than US$400 with a 6 month warranty! ! Shipping to Korea is around US$70 and takes less than a week to arrive.
What do you think? Have you done this? |
caveat emptor. laptops break a lot. batteries don't last long. 6 months isn't really a good warranty. |
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oskinny1
Joined: 10 Nov 2006
Location: Right behind you!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| What are the lappy's stats? You have a link to the site? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: Re: I'm thinking of buying a refurbished laptop online...... |
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| braunshade wrote: |
There are such great deals! Less than US$400 with a 6 month warranty! ! Shipping to Korea is around US$70 and takes less than a week to arrive.
What do you think? Have you done this? |
For $470 you can get a nice desktop with way more horsepower (double or more the capacity and processing power) than a refurbished laptop.
Why on earth would you bother except to say that you have a laptop? They are just an expensive and low power desktop for most people.
Unless you have some pressing need for portable computing they are NOT worth the money.
Now, with computers just about everywhere AND the prevalance of CHEAP ($30 for 2 gig) USB thumb drives...
it is just so much easier to load your stuff on the thumb drive and drag it to where you need it.
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braunshade
Joined: 19 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| I was thinking of buying one from usanotebooks. Desktops certainly are more powerful but I really need a computer that can travel with me. |
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Satin
Joined: 26 Oct 2006
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:03 am Post subject: |
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Refurbished laptops are a good buy! The batteries are not usually part of the warranty though; but, you could buy a replacement if you had to. Be sure to get a power cord.
I don't need to be really mobile, so I opted for an Optiplex SSF. Weighs a bit less than 15 pounds. So can pack it with me when necessary.
Just do what you feel comfortable with. Computers are kind of like cars or stereos -- there wouldn't be so many models if everyone was happy with just one style. |
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