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| Thread ID: 85269 | 2007-12-05 03:28:00 | Laptop purchase dilemma | bcallan (11310) | Press F1 |
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| 618082 | 2007-12-05 03:28:00 | For someone with not a lot of money to spend on a replacement lappie, which is the better option? Going and buying a brand new cheapie at the bottom end of the market (such as an Asus F5R or its NEC equivalent) at around the $900 mark? Or spending the same sort of money or even a little less in the second hand market and getting what had been a highly-specced machine in its day? I'm looking at an HP NC6000 or the like - which seem to be in the $400 - $600 range. Sure, it is a bit slower, but has a nicer graphics card (well, the fact it has a dedicated one at all puts it ahead of the Asus) and physically, the case is better than that of the Asus. Since I only want it to become a road warrier and watch movies/do some internet of an evening, why would I not go back to the older machine (apart from the obvious point of it being second-hand)? |
bcallan (11310) | ||
| 618083 | 2007-12-05 03:46:00 | I would personally have A new laptop built, but a second hand would be fine. A second-hand laptop may not have the battery life of a new one, but buying a new battery may solve the problem |
timmy101 (12484) | ||
| 618084 | 2007-12-05 08:21:00 | Buying second hand is always risky - the laptop may have a fault in it that the previous owner just "forgot to mention" - you don't know the history of a second hand laptop, warranties if any are usually short 30 days or so. Heres a classic example just today took a toshiba laptop back to a customer that they purchased second hand last week, paid around $600.00 I was told - within the week it started crashing - on inspection the HD drive is knackered, many failing sectors. The Laptop was purchased from a well know dealer in Auckland of second hand PC equipment. It has a 30 day warranty - OK sure the laptops HD after speaking to the said company, and me having to write a detailed letter stating what was done, will be replaced under warranty with a fresh install of XP Pro ( but thats all), but the customer still has to pay for my time to recover the data - postage and then once again my time to replace the data I had to recover - no back ups - they didn't think they had to with this "new second hand Laptop". |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 618085 | 2007-12-05 09:16:00 | What about something like this (www.dse.co.nz). An extra bit of ram wouldn't cost much and you would be away. Just my :2cents: |
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