Thinking of buying reconditioned tower..

EveryWhere

hdh74 wrote: »

So I think I'm going with a
Dell Optiplex 3020SFF PC i5 4590 3.3Ghz @£170 plus £55 to upgrade the HDD to a 480GB SSD and a tenner for a USB wireless adaptor (will usually use ethernet but might be handy sometimes) Google says the processor is quad core and it has 8 GB ram.

There's also a Dell Optiplex 3050 i5 6500 - has 256GB SSD which is same price to upgrade to 480 - could leave that but do like the storage.
Tried comparing the perfomances of the CPUs and can't see a huge difference but that might be me not understanding the numbers. Also has 8 GB ram. (think they both have space to upgrade to 16) That one is £70 more - not sure I can see the difference, am I missing anything please?

So you skipped out on my suggestion of a PCIe NVMe SSD capable Optiplex 7050 still under DELL warranty, that went for £124; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Optiplex-7050-Desktop-PC-Core-i5-6th-Gen-4GB-240GB-SSD-Windows-10-Pro/352780235129 to consider an Optiplex 3020 costing more?

:doh: :shocked:

I never cease to be amazed by the posters on this forum.

hdh74

EveryWhere wrote: »

So you skipped out on my suggestion of a PCIe NVMe SSD capable Optiplex 7050 still under DELL warranty, that went for £124; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Optiplex-7050-Desktop-PC-Core-i5-6th-Gen-4GB-240GB-SSD-Windows-10-Pro/352780235129 to consider an Optiplex 3020 costing more?

:doh: :shocked:

I never cease to be amazed by the posters on this forum.

I saw your message when the time was nearly up. I didn't have time to look at it properly then. I may have missed the bargain of the century but I'd rather take my time and make sure I know what I'm doing. For all I knew, you could have been the seller. I admitted in my first post I'm not tech-minded (I'm almost a pensioner, partially-sighted, and have brain-damage from an accident, so I'm not as fast at this as I'd like) and I'm on a learning curve. I don't see why you are so amazed that I didn't instantly buy what you suggested. I'm very grateful for everyone's information on here but it will take me a while to sift through and understand it.

EveryWhere

hdh74 wrote: »

I saw your message when the time was nearly up. I didn't have time to look at it properly then. I may have missed the bargain of the century but I'd rather take my time and make sure I know what I'm doing. For all I knew, you could have been the seller. I admitted in my first post I'm not tech-minded (I'm almost a pensioner, partially-sighted, and have brain-damage from an accident, so I'm not as fast at this as I'd like) and I'm on a learning curve. I don't see why you are so amazed that I didn't instantly buy what you suggested. I'm very grateful for everyone's information on here but it will take me a while to sift through and understand it.

That's ok. When you told me "you weren't ready", I imagined that you meant that weren't ready to purchase for a while yet. Somewhat surprised that you had decided on something somewhat older and more expensive, on the same weekend.

Unfortunate that you only saw the post forty five minutes from the end of the auction. Perhaps I should have alerted you to the fact that I had sent you a PM at the time of sending.
I sent via PM, as I told you, knowing that it was a relative bargain. So did not want anyone else, who may have seen the link on the open forum, to bid against you whilst you made up your mind.

Good luck with your purchase.