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Answer» I'm looking at used/refurbished computers. What should I look out for in terms of ripoff? If it's refurbished, could I be buying a lemon? If it's used, would it come full of viruses? I know I should be cautious, but there's a LINE between caution and being paranoid. Any thoughts? Thanks. If it's refurbished, could I be buying a lemon? If it's used, would it come full of viruses? Yes to the lemon, possibly to the viruses, but hardware can be replaced and viruses are generally easy to remove. Ask about a warranty. Important that you see the beast running and more important that you get the original genuine OS install disk with the hardware unless you intend to install a separate genuine version.. Although they can differ try to check the installed registration code against the one on the COA sticker. Deal with a reputable supplier Caveat emptor. Good luck Quote from: Dusty on July 24, 2008, 05:05:59 PM Important that you see the beast running Absolutely - and get any startup passwords or verify that there are none. Quote What should I look out for in terms of ripoff?Agreed. You should make sure the thing works and make sure that all the hardware is WORKING properly. In addition to that, check to see if the specifications are what they are said to be. You don't want to be paying $2000 US for something with a Hard Disk capacity of 10gb and 128mb RAM. With the competitive pricing on new PC's these days refurbished is not the bargain it once was...Thank you all! I'll have to do some hard thinking now... ASlaterEven if there is stuff on the drive you can format it, get a bigger one, or put a different operating system on it.the computer im using(that Optiplex GX150) was refurbished by Dell and i got it free . I got it through the Dell TechKnow Program at my OLD school when i was twelve. What we did was we learned about the guts of a comp, toke our computers apart and put em back together then we learned about the OS and installed it on our comps (Win 2K). The specs they had for all the Dell TechKnow comps were. P3 1GHz 256MB RAM(pretty good) 20GB hard drive Intergrated Video and Audio this was a pretty sweet deal. I resent you we took apart these crappy old desktops that where like pent 2 had windows 95 98 an dos. Loads of them but my senior year we took them apart an got what was still good.compare that to some old macs we had to use in computer class. (the macs were from the 80's)I bought one. I went with Dell because I've ALWAYS been lucky with them. I'll probably need to get more gigs for the RAM, since I'm using it to run Avid for editing. I'll probably be back here to ask for help to set it up. It cost me $272, here's the description (had to remove all the exclamation marks): DELL Precision 650 With INTEL XEON DUAL 2.0GHZ HT 1GB ECC DDR RAM (4-MATCHED STICKS SAMSUNG 256MB EACH DDR RAM, SUPPORTS UP TO 4GB RAM HUGE HUGE 160GB Diamond Max PLUS 9 Hard Drive Floppy (NON WORKING) NICE DVD-RW/CD-RW COMBO AND A DVD-R DRIVE WINXP PRO All Updates up to and including Service Pack 2 Already installed! AGP nVIDIA GeFORCE FX5600 256MB VGA, S-VIDEO AND DVI 8X Video Card FRONT Headphone, FRONT Mic 6-USB PORTS! 2-FRONT USB, 1-FRONT Firewire, 4-BACK USB, 1-BACK Firewire, BACK Sound (in, out, mic) WITH SoundMAX digital Sound DECENT Sounding on-board speaker INTEL Gigabit on-board Fast Ethernet AND a PCI 3COM Etherlink server 10/100 Network CardThats a pretty good deal, execept for the Floppy. but hardly anyone uses those anymore and since you got a DVD-RW drive then the floppy is pointless. Quote ...INTEL XEON DUAL 2.0GHZ HTThat is an AWESOME Deal for $272 but with all this i may have gone up to $400 but your lucky on this.Not true, I still do. Its allways important to have one. As well as usb connectors. Not a bad deal, but you'll find the RAM very expensive to upgrade. Nice to have a dual CPU rig though, the Xeons are good performers even though they're older now.yea but if he buys ram from Cruical then wats the worry. and besides hes runnin XP on it and 1GB is a good amount for a XP Computer. but yes he needs some more ram possibly another GB. |
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