Second hand laptop

Jox

I wasn't preyed on and not scaremongered into anything, I did my own research, based on my requirements and budget and am happy with my choice.

Thank you!

Try to be nice if possible

EveryWhere

Jox wrote: »

I'm not a heavy laptop user, I just needed a simple cheap one for home for gmail, facebook, youtube, some words docs and if there's a problem with it I can get it fixed or replaced. Works for me

That fine, but you paid too much. For the laptop in the first instance and for the ongoing insurance policy.
Especially because your laptop is barely a year old, so you have paid an extra £72 for nothing. In effect you have paid £360 for your machine, as you already had a one year warranty.
I hope it wasn't arciere who advised you.

It's your money and we cannot force you to take a particular path, but you posted on a website dedicated to saving money. Very poor value.

EveryWhere

Jox wrote: »

I wasn't preyed on and not scaremongered into anything, I did my own research, based on my requirements and budget and am happy with my choice.

Thank you!

Try to be nice if possible

I am nice. In this instance, trying to stop people from making poor decisions. It's too late for you, but perhaps others can learn from your experience.

arciere

EveryWhere wrote: »

Yes, but your opinion is nonsense. No one agrees with it here.. See? You can learn something every day,

The fact is my opinion is that is a very poor decision.

In addition, it is my opinion that you give very poor advice.

You refuse to post a link to the laptop you recommend, as you know that anyone with any technical knowledge would pull it apart.
So you prey on people like Jox, who clearly does not have much in the way on technical knowledge.
Scaremongering about refurbs etc. Likely the kind of person who would scare them into paying £6 extra a month too.
Terrible.

What are you talking about? I don't even know who Jox is! And I never said that someone should pay the £6 extra a month. Where did you read that?
I clearly said that with £250 you can get a brand-new laptop that is more than enough for WEB BROWSING.
If I had to buy a laptop within that range for WEB BROWSING, I would buy a new one. I like the feel of a brand-new laptop, I like to have a brand-new battery, I like to know that it's all brand-new inside, no refurb and less worries.
You can buy the most powerful, used laptop in the world for that money, it won't make your Internet pages load any faster.
Do you need a good graphics card? Then brand-new doesn't offer much .
Do you need a powerful CPU? Same as above.
I already gave you the model (just an example). Google it, you will find plenty. I buy from saveonlaptops.co.uk if you are interested, sometimes they have good deals.

What about the laptop YOU are proposing? What laptop do you have in mind for that price range? What super-specs can you get to compensate for the fact that it is a used unit (bearing in mind what its main use will be).

EveryWhere

arciere wrote: »

Why would you need SSD for web surfing?

Speedier start up, better battery life, speedier response times, more robust as you can move it around whilst in use without damaging the drive, speedier shutdown.

Should you really be advising on a technical forum?

Jox

EveryWhere wrote: »

That fine, but you paid too much. For the laptop in the first instance and for the ongoing insurance policy.
Especially because your laptop is barely a year old, so you have paid an extra £72 for nothing. In effect you have paid £360 for your machine, as you already had a one year warranty.
I hope it wasn't arciere who advised you.

It's your money and we cannot force you to take a particular path, but you posted on a website dedicated to saving money. Very poor value.

I bought it Oct 2017, if the one year warranty is up in October and it breaks down in November it will probably cost me more than £72 to fix it and of course much more to replace so I am happy with my choice.

If you can offer the OP better advice and links then please do.

EveryWhere

arciere wrote: »

What are you talking about? I don't even know who Jox is! And I never said that someone should pay the £6 extra a month. Where did you read that?
I clearly said that with £250 you can get a brand-new laptop that is more than enough for WEB BROWSING.
If I had to buy a laptop within that range for WEB BROWSING, I would buy a new one. I like the feel of a brand-new laptop, I like to have a brand-new battery, I like to know that it's all brand-new inside, no refurb and less worries.
You can buy the most powerful, used laptop in the world for that money, it won't make your Internet pages load any faster.
Do you need a good graphics card? Then brand-new doesn't offer much .
Do you need a powerful CPU? Same as above.
I already gave you the model (just an example). Google it, you will find plenty. I buy from saveonlaptops.co.uk if you are interested, sometimes they have good deals.

What about the laptop YOU are proposing? What laptop do you have in mind for that price range? What super-specs can you get to compensate for the fact that it is a used unit (bearing in mind what its main use will be).

I can propose many, but following on from frugalmacdugal's post, here is a refurb with a full warranty from Argos;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acer-15-6-Inch-HD-Intel-i3-2GHz-4GB-1TB-Windows-10-Laptop-Red-/352205717831 for £168

i3 6006U CPU

Compare it to your suggestion;

https://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/X540NA-GQ052T-ASUS-VivoBook-15-X540NA-GQ052T_2275234.html for £260

Pentium N4200 CPU

So you are paying £90 more for less. The laptops are exactly the same age/generation.

This is a 'money saving' website. Perhaps you don't understand that.

EveryWhere

Jox wrote: »

I bought it Oct 2017, if the one year warranty is up in October and it breaks down in November it will probably cost me more than £72 to fix it and of course much more to replace so I am happy with my choice.

If you can offer the OP better advice and links then please do.

I knew when you purchased the laptop. That is why i wrote 'barely a year". Indeed if it breaks down in November.... it still means that you paid £360 in the first year. For Year 2 it will be £432...for a laptop that ASUS now sells for £170.

Are you seeing the full picture now? Sometimes the truth hurts, but better you know earlier before it gets more painful later.

Your laptop is worth less and less, but you are paying more and more. It's not sensible.

You could have purchased a similar new Refurb with a full warranty for £100 less and had £200 in reserve for any problems in the second year. By the end of the 2nd year you would have £272 in reserve. Enough for a new laptop.

arciere

You are paying less and you are getting a used/refurbished laptop. It's not the same. And none of its specs make it faster than a new one. Only the CPU is slightly faster, but it won't make any difference for browsing. Laptop is slightly heavier and battery lasts almost 2 hours less than the Asus.
Oh, just to let you know, pretty much ALL refurbished laptops costs less than brand-new ones, at any price range. But I don't think that people buying brand new laptops are all stupid.

Jox

When the Asus laptop breaks down it will be repaired or replaced, I won't have it years and years and won't have a graveyard of broken laptops gathering dust in a drawer.

At work we purchase and replace our Lenovo laptops every 3 years for approx £1000 per laptop and now have a massive stockpile of older, slow laptops in a cupboard.

It's not your choice but it works for me.