Are refurbished laptops worth the money?

[Arcadio]

Is there a significant difference between a refurbished laptop and a regular used laptop? I'm about to spend $300 on a Dell D600 refurbished laptop on eBay....

 

[ThePresence]

If you can spare a few extra dollars, go to woot.com right now.

 

[iamwiz82]

A D600 is a pile of garbage after a few years. I think you would be wiser to pony up another $100 and get a refurb right from Dell's Outlet. My 1720 was $420, IIRC.

 

[Lonyo]

Get a laptop with a warranty.

 

[Arcadio]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
A D600 is a pile of garbage after a few years. I think you would be wiser to pony up another $100 and get a refurb right from Dell's Outlet. My 1720 was $420, IIRC.

What about a new Vostro laptop? Are they good? I don't like laptops. I'm just getting one because I need one for work. I want to spend the least amount of money on a decent laptop.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Why doesn't work supply you one?

 

[ViviTheMage]

used refurb maybe....but not so much from dells outlet imo.

 

[Arcadio]

I just got the D600 from ebay for $295 + $30 Shipping.

 

[0roo0roo]

depends how old.
you never know part is near failing on a lappy after long use..they get carried around and knocked about so are more prone to failure. and replacing parts is more difficult.

 

[radioouman]

D600s are junk. I have a D610 at work, but another associate has a D600. The difference is huge! The D600 always has problems, and it is slow. Wireless breaks, LAN breaks...

Oh, I see you just bought it.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
A D600 is a pile of garbage after a few years. I think you would be wiser to pony up another $100 and get a refurb right from Dell's Outlet. My 1720 was $420, IIRC.

I got a 1720 from their outlet store and it was $900 shipped

3GB RAM, 17" 1440x900 screen, 250GB HDD, 256MB 8600M GT video card...

 

[Arcadio]

Originally posted by: radioouman
D600s are junk. I have a D610 at work, but another associate has a D600. The difference is huge! The D600 always has problems, and it is slow. Wireless breaks, LAN breaks...

Oh, I see you just bought it.

Yeah. Now I feel like I just wasted $300.... DAMN.

Or maybe I'll be the lucky guy whose D600 is actually good..

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
A D600 is a pile of garbage after a few years. I think you would be wiser to pony up another $100 and get a refurb right from Dell's Outlet. My 1720 was $420, IIRC.

I got a 1720 from their outlet store and it was $900 shipped

3GB RAM, 17" 1440x900 screen, 250GB HDD, 256MB 8600M GT video card...

Yeah, mine was a bit more ghetto . I also used a 20% off coupon.

2GB ram, 1440x900, truelife, 160GB HDD, onboard intel graphics. The 9 cell battery rocks, though. I can get 6-7 hours if I am conservative.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: Arcadio
I just got the D600 from ebay for $295 + $30 Shipping.

shoulda spent a little more

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=D610-1B&cpc=SCH

Dell D610 Pentium M 1.8GHz 512MB 60GB CDRW/DVD 14.1" XPH - B $359.99 w/ a 90 day warranty

 

[Arcadio]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: Arcadio
I just got the D600 from ebay for $295 + $30 Shipping.

shoulda spent a little more

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=D610-1B&cpc=SCH

Dell D610 Pentium M 1.8GHz 512MB 60GB CDRW/DVD 14.1" XPH - B $359.99 w/ a 90 day warranty

Damn. Where were you a few minutes ago?


BTW, anyone wants to buy a Dell D600? I got one for sale.

 

[JWade]

i buy my laptops from Delloutlet. can get some really good deals there. My wife got a 1525 with camera and 2gb of ram dual core for $479 about 6 months ago. I have seen single core refurb laptops as low as 309. There can be some sweet deals there, just got to wait for em

 

[PieIsAwesome]

I bought a refurbed XPS notebook a while ago on ebay. Came with 1 year warranty, never gave me problems when I had it.

 

[Fraggable]

Dell outlet laptops are usually fine - no worse than new anyway.

I've bought a XPS 1730 there and saved about $2000, the thing runs like a champ and looks like new.

 

[desidude006]

it really depends from person to person and their perspective toward buy things. Some people just tend invest their money in the best way possible (aka buying things new). Really depends on you man.

 

[starfireone]

If you are on a poor mans budget, which most of us are, than refurbished laptops is a good way to go. Refurbished laptops are as Good As New with factory warranty included.
I have never had any major big issues with refurbished laptops and I own and use a few of them.

From what I know about the Dell D600 they have had a few issues with the hard drives giving out on them pretty quickly. Dell just was not putting very good hard drives in them for a while in the past.

But anyway you might have bought a D600 with a newer/better hard drive. Overall it really is not that bad of a notebook. There are a lot worst ones out there.

By the way I hope you did get a warranty with it?