Second hand laptop

wilson1973

I have a small budget and would like to buy a second hand laptop,I have between £150 and £225 to spend,could anyone advise a good laptop for me to buy that's well made and well regarded please.
It will be used for mainly web surfing,maybe youtube,banking

arciere

If you are only going to use it for web surfing, I would look at brand-new, cheap laptops.
I wouldn't trust a second hand drive (if a screen is broken, you see it immediately, if a hard drive is faulty, it may take you days before you find out), plus the battery might need replacing, depending on how old it is.

AndyPix

^^ Worst advice ever ..


Brand new laptops in that price range will be absolute garbage. Terrible screen with rubbish processor and will be all "plasticky"


OP - you want a second hand refurbed business machine such as a dell latitude or similar.


When i have more time i will dig you out some links.

AndyPix

^^ You are recommending laptops with 1.1GHz celeron processors ?? :doh:

EveryWhere

arciere wrote: »

If you are only going to use it for web surfing, I would look at brand-new, cheap laptops.
I wouldn't trust a second hand drive (if a screen is broken, you see it immediately, if a hard drive is faulty, it may take you days before you find out), plus the battery might need replacing, depending on how old it is.

We seem to disagree on everything. Possibly because you don't think things through before posting.

There are many outlets that sell high quality customer returns/refurbs.with a year's guarantee.

arciere

AndyPix wrote: »

^^ Worst advice ever ..

Well, I can see that these kind of replies have become the norm here, I'm no longer surprised.

£250 you get a quad-core CPU, 4GB RAM, 1TB drive, 8-hour battery.
More than enough for web surfing and YouTube.

arciere

EveryWhere wrote: »

We seem to disagree on everything. Possibly because you don't think things through before posting.

Yes, we seem to disagree on everything, but it doesn't bother me.

bouicca21

I asked about cheapish laptops in another thread and was advised to look at ebay.



All I needed was something bog standard that was light and reasonably fast. Was certainly worried about the prospect of a secondhand computer but looked carefully at the spec of the model that was suggested as appropriate for the task (which was actually better than I needed), and even more carefully at the seller, took a deep breath and went ahead. Result! It's way better than I expected and I'm really pleased with it.

EveryWhere

arciere wrote: »

Well, I can see that these kind of replies have become the norm here, I'm no longer surprised.

£250 you get a quad-core CPU, 4GB RAM, 1TB drive, 8-hour battery.
More than enough for web surfing and YouTube.

A link to the laptop would have been less wordy.

Why would you need 1TB for web surfing?

arciere

EveryWhere wrote: »

A link to the laptop would have been less wordy.

Asus VivoBook series, Google has plenty.

arciere

EveryWhere wrote: »

Why would you need 1TB for web surfing?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Does it hurt having 1TB? You don't ask for it, it comes with the laptop. I didn't know that having more than required was a problem.
Yes, we do disagree on everything.