On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 09:05:16 PM Andrew McGlashan wrote:
On 3/08/2015 4:13 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 10:22:49 AM Carl Turney wrote:
Not IBM, Dell, or HP (personal)
AFAIK IBM doesn't make laptops. Lenovo bought the Thinkpad line from IBM and they have done a good job of producing good products.
True about IBM, but Lenovo screwed themselves with Superfish ... so I've got to rule them out as a bad player, very bad player.
Wipe the hard drive as soon as you get it and that's not a problem unless you want to boycott them.
Anyway Grays Online has worked well for me for buying laptops.
Refurbished name-brand laptops are cheap and have good specs.
If Grays Online has a it as a refurbished unit; remember, it is refurbished for a reason. You can get good value, you might not get all the /normal/ inclusions and you may not get normal full warranty.
You will never get a full length warranty on a refurbished computer. But that's not a problem, the short warranty will cover most manufacturing defects and if something goes wrong after that time you can just buy another. Refurbished computers are usually significantly less than half the list price so you can buy a second and still be saving money. I bought my current Thinkpad on Grays and it cost about the same as a new battery and PSU for my previous Thinkpad (which is also a refurbished one from Grays). The old one started working again for no apparent reason so I now have 2 laptops which is handy. My current Thinkpad is a T420 and the previous is a T61 so I did get a reasonable amount of use out of the T61 before it had problems. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/