Most suitable New laptop for me.

NiftyDigits

MissSarah151 wrote: »

hmm - obviously I'd go for refurbished if it was something cosmetic, are you able to find out why it was returned? don't want to swap one problem machine for another!

needs to be a laptop I'm afraid so I can work anywhere, which is annoying price wise.

I am tempted to fix mine, but with me clueless as to what's wrong, and pretty clueless with computers in general, I dont know if a) I'll get ripped off or b) take it in, pay to be told it's wrecked!

on my last thread there wasn't really consensus as to what was wrong.

Sarah

It won't even have a scratch. Don't worry. Buy it. try it. If you don't like it, give it back within seven working days. They won't quibble. Don't miss out.

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have you factory restored the old one yet

MissSarah151

Hi again closed - no I actually haven't, it's sounds too complicated and scary to me, at least if I got a new one I wouldn't lose anything considering this one still works. just working with that stupid screen is driving me mad!!

I''ll have a serious think about it nifty, there's a few of those ones for sale. so, the seller - is that just like an official Argos warehouse thing?

Sarah

closed

provided you have backed up first, it takes 10 minutes, may not fix the problem which looks like hardware, but worth trying

MissSarah151

when you say backed up - do you mean on disks, I have backup on the actual computer (sorry I realise how daft I sound on this forum - I'm actually quite bright really - honest haha)

another daft question - if I go ahead - will it start up with Vista as normal because I don't have any disks or anything for that.

Sarah

Viscount

reburbished could be all sorts of things as its widely used. But generally it will come with some sort of guarentee but not necessarily full. I've purchased refurb many times and its fine.

Fixing computer problems if you don't know how is a difficult as you know. I haven't seen your thread, however you can see if there is a local repair shop who can have a look at it. Other than that its whether you have a IT friend.

MissSarah151

I'm always wary of buying off ebay, especially something second hand. see if the store had the same thing out the back I'd probably have bought it by now!

closed

somewhere other than the hard disk in the machine (if that fails now, you'd lose everything), which could be an external hard disk and/or dvd's, and ideally both

you can create recovery disks with acer erecovery

you can backup with macrium reflect free, and you can burn dvd's with just data directly from windows

you can factory restore with acer erecovery (from the factory restore partition)

NiftyDigits

MissSarah151 wrote: »

Hi again closed - no I actually haven't, it's sounds too complicated and scary to me, at least if I got a new one I wouldn't lose anything considering this one still works. just working with that stupid screen is driving me mad!!

I''ll have a serious think about it nifty, there's a few of those ones for sale. so, the seller - is that just like an official Argos warehouse thing?

Sarah

Sheesh...will you stop faffing around and just buy the thing....

If a customer changes their mind about a purchase, it can't be resold as new. So it goes on to that website and you get a bargain....if you just will get on with it.

NiftyDigits

MissSarah151 wrote: »

I'm always wary of buying off ebay, especially something second hand. see if the store had the same thing out the back I'd probably have bought it by now!

You are better off buying it this way, as you have more protections. Stop flapping girl!