Refurb laptops - where to buy recommendations

[defblade]

As per title, really, does anyone have any places they'd send us to look for a new-to-us laptop?

Cheers

[Drive Blind]

i've directed 2 people to this place, looking for a laptop but not wanting to pay new prices.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/tekkybitz

both went for a preowned Dell in the 150-200 price range. 6+ months on, both happy, no complaints.

[Arnold Cunningham]

My last one came from these guys. It was good. Hardly used.
https://www.techbuyer.com/uk/computing/laptops

[essayer]

tier1online

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essayer said:

tier1online

I had a desktop from them (via ebuyer) a while ago and were my first port of call; just after gathering a few more options

[leef44]

What about Cex?

[Bluesgirl]

I used backmarket.co.uk last year for a couple of iPhones, an iPad Pro, keyboard and various accessories. All refurbished and looked brand new. I haven’t had any issues with any of the items.

[Riley Blue]

Have a look at PCRenewed in Coventry: https://www.pcrenewed.co.uk

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

Drive Blind said:

i've directed 2 people to this place, looking for a laptop but not wanting to pay new prices.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/tekkybitz

both went for a preowned Dell in the 150-200 price range. 6+ months on, both happy, no complaints.

I must be missing something here but I would rather spend £400 brand new on this.

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/asus-vivobook-15...

Than £200 on something that has a processor that is 5 or 6 generations old.

Edited to add, old laptops always have knackered batteries as well.

Edited by ThingsBehindTheSun on Wednesday 26th June 07:53

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ThingsBehindTheSun said:

old laptops always have knackered batteries as well.

Yeah, we're kinda expecting that.
SWMBO is not exactly a power user, she only wants to change her current laptop as HP have disowned it (no record of it anywhere official, only old adverts and reviews) and it has a recognised (tho not by HP!) fault of only charging when it's switched off. And you can't run a firmware update that might possibly fix it, as it insists that it's plugged in when you run an update, but you have to have it switched on to do that, so it doesn't admit that it is plugged in...
But she would mostly use it plugged in, so a knackered battery is not much of an issue, just so long as it'll take mains power when it's being used.

[wyson]

I’ve used itcsales.co.uk a couple of times and Dell’s outlet. Couldn’t tell the difference from new, apart from packaging.

[Riley Blue]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

I must be missing something here but I would rather spend £400 brand new on this.

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/asus-vivobook-15...

Than £200 on something that has a processor that is 5 or 6 generations old.

Edited to add, old laptops always have knackered batteries as well.

Edited by ThingsBehindTheSun on Wednesday 26th June 07:53

I drive a 2016 three previous owners car ergo I'm totally unfussed about my recently purchased refurb'd Thinkpad having an eighth generation processor and 96% battery.

[SwissJonese]

We have always bought from CEX. You get 24month warranty and usual they come immaculate. Some I think are ex-stock from the manufacture as I couldn't find any marks etc. We bought a Samsung S8+ tablet recently, started having issues, they gave a refund from the shop without issue.

[Arnold Cunningham]

My old laptop from the lot I linked to above certainly didn’t have knackered battery. It had hardly any cycles on it and using it all day yesterday, battery life was great

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

Riley Blue said:

I drive a 2016 three previous owners car ergo I'm totally unfussed about my recently purchased refurb'd Thinkpad having an eighth generation processor and 96% battery.

I drive a 2011 car and it's not the same thing at all. A brand new car compared to my car isn't going to be three times faster.

Plus if I could have bought a brand new car for double what I paid for my old one I would have done it without thinking.

Look at the CPU benchmark scores of your 8th gen CPU compared to a new laptop CPU and tell me you are happy.

A Gen 8 i7 will get destroyed by the current i3 with 10 cores no matter which one has the higher I number.

[ARHarh]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

Riley Blue said:

I drive a 2016 three previous owners car ergo I'm totally unfussed about my recently purchased refurb'd Thinkpad having an eighth generation processor and 96% battery.

I drive a 2011 car and it's not the same thing at all. A brand new car compared to my car isn't going to be three times faster.

Plus if I could have bought a brand new car for double what I paid for my old one I would have done it without thinking.

Look at the CPU benchmark scores of your 8th gen CPU compared to a new laptop CPU and tell me you are happy.

A Gen 8 i7 will get destroyed by the current i3 with 10 cores no matter which one has the higher I number.

A new cpu is not really needed though, to run windows and do a bit of office work and play youtube is it? If you have £200 to spend finding £400 may be difficult. Sometimes you cant afford the latest tech, sometimes you can't justify buying the latest.

[Riley Blue]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

Riley Blue said:

I drive a 2016 three previous owners car ergo I'm totally unfussed about my recently purchased refurb'd Thinkpad having an eighth generation processor and 96% battery.

I drive a 2011 car and it's not the same thing at all. A brand new car compared to my car isn't going to be three times faster.

Plus if I could have bought a brand new car for double what I paid for my old one I would have done it without thinking.

Look at the CPU benchmark scores of your 8th gen CPU compared to a new laptop CPU and tell me you are happy.

A Gen 8 i7 will get destroyed by the current i3 with 10 cores no matter which one has the higher I number.

The desire for speed hasn't been a factor in my life for years.

[S6PNJ]

ARHarh said:

A new cpu is not really needed though, to run windows and do a bit of office work and play youtube is it?

Agreed - my 'daily' laptop has an i7-2670QM processor - how old?????? I have 16GB DDR3 RAM and a 128GB SSD, running Win10. Does me fine for web browsing, watchign YouTube, email, laser engraving, 3D printing, desktop magazine editing (actually done through MS Word), Visual Studio Code editing and various other bits of 'minor' software. Performance here: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Cor...

And yes, any modern CPU will blow it out of the water, but for the vast majority of domestic users, it is just not required. A basic processor will still do 99% of domestic tasks without breaking into a sweat, it is marketing over substance that makes us all upgrade (in my opinion).

Edited by S6PNJ on Friday 28th June 09:30