Refurbished laptops

nipper · #1 12-02-2009, 10:48 PM

I am looking at perhaps purchasing a laptop computer for my daughter for christmas. I wonder if any of you have had any experience (good or bad) with a refurbished laptop. There are tons of Dell laptops out there which are "off lease" for around $250 with anywhere from a 30 to 60 day warranty. Most do not warrant the battery, but a new battery can be purchased for about $40 on Ebay. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

THEFERMANATOR · #2 12-03-2009, 12:03 AM

For $500-600 you can get a pretty nice brand new one with a full years warranty and not have to worry about how it has been treated in the past.

nipper · #3 12-03-2009, 12:16 AM

I hear you, but money is tight and $250-$300 would be all I could spend.

THEFERMANATOR · #4 12-03-2009, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by nipper

I hear you, but money is tight and $250-$300 would be all I could spend.

I hear yeah. My wife has had 2 of them so far from DELL. The first one had HORRIBLE battery life, but the second one has been pretty good. Both of them have broken where the screen hinges hook into the actual computer part by the keyboards and it causes the screen to get real loose and floppy.

joe7670 · #5 12-03-2009, 12:58 AM

I say monitor http://slickdeals.net/ or Dell's outlet.

There are some pretty good deals on slickdeals periodically.

CaptJ · #6 12-03-2009, 07:35 AM

Use http://www.dealcatcher.com/ and go to the right hand side under "deal alerts" put in dell laptop and it will notify you of any good bargains.

I got this one today. Don't know to much but it is a Duo Core and I think Core 2 Duo is suppose to be better. but for $399 cant be to bad

Good Luck

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