Refurbished / Used laptops
What do you plan to do with your laptop?
Do you your plans include the following?
Surfing the internet,checking emails,Instant messenger,writing papers,printing papers,making spreadsheets,slide presentations,playing solitaire,downloading MP3's,listening to MP3's,burning to CD's,watching DVD's,digital camera photo,keeping bank figures,small business use, The lists goes on...
Most used laptops will easily complete all of the above mentioned tasks for you. What's really great is that for most current applications on a refurbished laptop, you won't notice a performance difference compared to a brand new laptop.
How is that possible to not notice a difference in performance between a brand new laptop and a refurbished or second hand laptop?
That's a good question. The fact is, most current software for your computer is not designed to need the high performance of a brand new laptop. Computer manufactures are moving so fast, that software makers simply do not keep up. Most current software will run on a computer 4 times slower than the fastest laptops made. What does that mean for you? It means that it's not necessary to spend £700 or more on a top of the line laptop. Depending on your needs from your
laptop, you may be able to buy a laptop for as low as £150. A £150 laptop will perform all the necessary tasks for most people. However, if you are looking for a laptop that will burn CD's and watch DVD movies,expect to spend £199 - £300.
Be very aware of larger Laptop computer companies offering cheap and sometimes free laptops, they will get there money some how. These computer companies will either make there cheap offers very hard to find and buy (like buying a cheap Air flight ticket offered in the Sunday papers) or try very hard to sell you extra warranty or to buy expensive anti virus software and other extras. These companies are experts at making offers seem too good to be true and hiding the real cost. Also bear in mind that you get what you pay for and to be able to sell a laptop at a cheap price it will have to be built with cheap components bearly able to last the warranty term.
Refurbished,used laptops are almost always business model laptops that are off-lease from major corporations. Business laptops have parts available even long after warranty expires. Business laptops provide a better solution because they are the laptops provided by a company that are proven to work well.
Therefore, when your home user laptop has an out of warranty problem (which it will), the parts that are available to fix your laptop are very expensive, if they are available at all. This leaves the home user with the attitude to "throw away and buy new", which is exactly what the manufacture wants you to do.
Since business laptops use technology that is proven to work, their parts seldom change from model to model. Due to this fact as well as the fact that business laptops are leased to corporations, huge stock piles of parts are
kept at the manufacture for extended warranties as well as out of warranty purchases.
