Refurb laptops

EvilMonkey

Looking for a family laptop, mostly surfing / office with a little graphics work thrown in. No major gaming needed.

Been looking at the laptops here:-

PCWorld refurb laptops


Anyone have any experience of these and are there any which seem to leap out as good value?

Am kind of wary about the advent / own brand ones, am I right to be or are the alright?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

fwor

Your link doesn't work for me, so I couldn't see what savings you might be making, but...

A laptop is one of the things that I wouldn't buy as a "refurb", because many laptop problems seem to occur intermittently and at random.

I really wouldn't trust PC World to do anything more as part of the "refurb" process than to check that nothing was broken off, switch it on and confirm it boots and then put it in stock as a successful refurb.

EvilMonkey

Thanks, also updated link.

chunter

How much do you want to spend?

EvilMonkey

£250 - 350

Kind of fancy the dual 2 core fella's mostly for a bit of future proofing, and love it / loathe it was aiming for vista home premium

uktyler

A bit more than you wanted to pay:

Brand new Core 2 for £411 at morgan:

http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=4572

They have a refurb Toshiba for £350, but its low on memory.

Intel Core 2 Duo T5300 notebook with 2GB RAM, 120GB hard disk, Ultrabright 17" widescreen display, wireless networking and Vista Home Premium

• Powerful Intel Core 2 Duo T5300 dual core processor (2 x 1.73GHz)
• 2GB RAM, 120GB hard disk and multiformat dual layer DVD writer
• Ultrabright 17" widescreen TFT display (1440 x 900 WXGA) resolution
• Intel shared graphics (up to 224MB RAM), hi-def sound and stereo speakers
• 802.11 g wireless network, 10/100 LAN, 56K modem and card reader
• 4 x USB 2.0 ports, Firewire port and long life 6 cell lithium-ion battery

With Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Microsoft Works 8.5, Microsoft
Office 2007 Home & Student (trial version) and much more
Stock Status
Brand new
Warranty
One year warranty

boatman

New Toshiba with Home Premium, Core 2 Duo and 160Gb hard drive for £372, that should fit the bill.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=766637

Also a Dell which is a bit cheaper, inferior processor, probably doesn't look as nice.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/151188/dell-vostro-1000-notebook-amd-tl58-/

JustPassingBy

EvilMonkey wrote: »

Looking for a family laptop, mostly surfing / office with a little graphics work thrown in. No major gaming needed.

Been looking at the laptops here:-

PCWorld refurb laptops


Anyone have any experience of these and are there any which seem to leap out as good value?

Am kind of wary about the advent / own brand ones, am I right to be or are the alright?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

I believe laptops sold as refurbished may have had nothing seriously wrong with them but simply returned to PC World for a variety of reasons. They cannot then be sold as "new". But you should check on what PC World say and, having narrowed down your choice, look around to see what the same models are sold for.

I bought a refurbished Packard Bell 17" for just over £500 a year ago. Not from PC World though - they were much dearer. It was spotless on delivery and has been fine since.

Brian.

buglawton

There's another thread going along, look at my post in it:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=8965125&postcount=1802
Refurb Thinkpads 1GB and XP, £250... maybe

chunter

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&oc=N0310005&s=bsd&sbc=rf_spider&m_30=139043&dgc=AF&cid=5212&lid=122756

New Dell at 351 quid delivered
AMD® Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL60
Genuine Windows XP
1Yr Basic Warranty
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display with TrueLife™
2048 MB 667MHz Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x 1024 MB)
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 HyperMemory (integrated)
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software
4 cell Lithium-Ion Battery (29 Whr)
65W AC Adapter
56.6k V.92 Capable Internal Modem & Adapter - UK
Internal Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
1Yr Basic Warranty - Next Business Day

Complete with year's warranty, brand new battery, no dodgy cd drives, no dodgy screens, genuine XP.

Oh, and bless you, it comes with a Vista option should you have that panging for masochism.

richt71

I got a great refurb laptop about 18 months ago from a ebay powerseller that buys defunct (bankrupt) companies computers. Can't remember his id but he had 18000 positive rating and I got a 6 months old laptop for a great price with just a few scratches on the casing.