Considering a de-comissioned work laptop from fleabay

[hoorah]

I have an HP Elitebook at work, its an absolute monster of a machine and I love it (except for the 17" screen, wish it were 15").

I'm looking for my own personal laptop now and I've found a bunch of companies that sell what appear to be corporate elitebooks that have been taken out of service and sold on ebay as "for parts only", because they don't have hard drives in them. We do the same at our company, our hard drives NEVER leave. A few don't have chargers either, but I have plenty of old HP chargers.

Since anything I buy I would be putting an SSD in anyway, these seem like a good fit. Although they're listed as 'for parts or not working' most show that they boot to BIOS.

Anyone ever try picking up a laptop this way? The prices they sell for are around $100-150, depending on specs, and usually have high res screens and core i5-i7 CPUs.

 

[gmaster456]

I don't see why not. As long as everything else works just put in an SSD and you'd be good to go.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Two things to consider. The batteries are often times shot. Make sure it has a legible windows COA sticker, unless you have you own OS plans.

 

[Compman55]

And be prepared for cosmetic issues that do not show in the pics, in addition to generic picts that show no blemishes, but when it arrives it is full of them.

I had had great luck with dell latitudes over the years. I like the power of my E6410, but the build quality is getting worse and worse with each series newer.

 

[Emulex]

The device will probably have a win7 SLIC on it already! Old elitebooks are tanks!

 

[hoorah]

The device will probably have a win7 SLIC on it already! Old elitebooks are tanks!

Yes, I was thinking the same thing myself. Most say the COA sticker is removed, but if it has the SLIC table then I can just install 7 with my OEM Win7 disk and be on my way.