Computer woes.

J_B

johndough wrote: »

http://www.getonlineathome.org/Laptop

Doesn't work

Try this http://www.getonlineathome.org/

brenda50

Sale price on eBay for HP G56's with a lesser specs come in around £160 mark, but there's the minor problem with a couple of dead pixels, but A: It's not uncommon to have a few deal pixels after a few years and B: that's not a problem for you since you're using an external monitor.

So I'd put a retail value of around £165+

That is the price he is saying it is worth but says for me but he will ask less but he will need to buy a replacement monitor for his set up,and a few bits.

Thanks for the link.

I never leave it on overnight. Is it likely to burst into flames <shock>!

Jivesinger

johndough wrote: »

Hi

This may give some indication as to a refurbished laptop cost, and then a used laptop would be quite a bit less I expect.

http://www.getonlineathome.org/Laptop Prices start from £169 for all other purchasers. NB: All laptop computers are professionally refurbished by Microsoft partners.

£170 feels like a lot of money for an old laptop with 1GB of memory and 80GB of disk space.

I'm no expert in hardware, but I'm pretty confident you could get a refurb laptop with a better spec for that sort of money.

For instance a brand-new Dell is only £190 at the moment. (Not saying I recommend that particular model, but the spec is much better than that refurb.)

maas

brenda50 wrote: »

I never leave it on overnight. Is it likely to burst into flames <shock>!

It should be okay, just make sure you have a fire extinguisher and fire blanket nearly and an quick means of escape :money:

poppellerant

It sounds to me you're funding their new monitor. Tell them you'd prefer a replacement LCD panel for the laptop, that way you can take it around with you.

NiftyDigits

Tell him to f.......orgedaboudit!

Browntoa

And personally I think they were taking the pee asking to take the sound card , it is your property as you paid for it

Sounds like a real con artist

brenda50

Well he did replace it with a new one. And he does the upkeep of the pc. Looks like it might be best to buy a new one in the sales.

NiftyDigits

brenda50 wrote: »

Well he did replace it with a new one. And he does the upkeep of the pc. Looks like it might be best to buy a new one in the sales.

You get a warranty with a machine anyway, even a refurb.

This PC is £150 and has a full warranty.
Don't even think about buying it though, as the processor is crud.
His laptop? If it had no problems with the screen and I was that way inclined, I'd give him £50 to £70 for it.
£165 is just pie in the sky for that piece of junk. When it was being sold for £216, three years ago it was thought a poor deal and that was with a full warranty and their 'top of the range' Intel processor. We have no idea as to which spec he is trying to flog to you. Tell him to take it down to CEX, they state they'll give £80 for it. Though once they fire it up and see missing pixels, that will likely drop from £50 to nothing.

brenda50

I got the specs on the laptop:

It's a good brand, HP, it's fairly new, it only came out of warranty about a year ago. It's a large laptop, 15" screen. 4Gb of RAM, 320Gb hard disk, dual core Intel 2.4Ghz CPU.

I don't think that I should take a chance on it anyway - even if it was £50.