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    #1

    Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

    My mom needed a computer and so I had her buy the following refurbished laptop online:

    Dell Latitude e5410 Laptop, Intel Core i3-350M, 2GB DDR3, 80GB SATA, 802.11n, W7HP

    for $249.99. I'm going to replace the 80G 5.4K drive with a spare 160G 7.2K drive. I'm also going to upgrade her to 4GB RAM.

    She's mostly going to run Google Chrome, and LibreOffice. That's what she uses 99% of the time. Email, printing basic stuff (to my network laser printer), watching random crap news clips online, and the occasional YouTube video.

    Did we do well?
    Last edited by shovenose; 01-04-2014, 01:31 AM.
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    #2
    Re: Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

    Yahoo answers! :p
    It looks like one q from there.
    I'm just joking

    Try to go for a 32gb ssd they are super cheap.
    Believe me when I say 80% of refurbished NB they don't clean the old thermal compound .
    Do a full cleaning .
    Try 6gb with x64 and a ssd , you will never hear here complain again.
    Good luck
    Just cook it! It's already broken.

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      #3
      Re: Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

      A bargain one ! Like ricoh says do a full maintenance and it will be ok

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        #4
        Re: Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

        That's dirt cheap by my standards. Those things would still go for $350-400 here.
        I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

        No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

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        Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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          #5
          Re: Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

          The entire purpose is to do upgrades with extra parts I already have. She does occasionally download medium to big files so if switching to SSD I'd probably have to go for a 64.

          Glad it's ok I'm hoping it is similar in quality to the ThinkPad. The reviews said it was plasticky but rigid.

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            #6
            Re: Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

            All the latitudes I've worked on had magnesium alloy cases. They actually felt more solid if anything than my ThinkPad T60
            I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

            No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

            Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

            Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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              #7
              Re: Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

              Originally posted by shovenose View Post
              The entire purpose is to do upgrades with extra parts I already have. She does occasionally download medium to big files so if switching to SSD I'd probably have to go for a 64.

              Glad it's ok I'm hoping it is similar in quality to the ThinkPad. The reviews said it was plasticky but rigid.
              5 GB+ requires x64. (RAM) And 2 GB is paltry, even for 2011 standards.
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                #8
                Re: Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

                Yeah but it's DDR3 so it's cheap to upgrade. For $250 you can't complain.
                Originally posted by PeteS in CA
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                A working TV? How boring!

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                  #9
                  Re: Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

                  Looks like a great deal

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                    #10
                    Re: Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

                    I have an E5500 and absolutely love it to bits. Trust me, get an SSD, it's blazing fast.

                    Mine was like £140 inc upgrades and even then it was originally faulty when I bought it. So I'd say you got a good deal.
                    Dell E7450 | i5-5300U | 16GB DDR3 | 256GB SSD

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                      #11
                      Re: Good Buy? Mom's Laptop

                      Well just an update her unit ended up with a 160GB HDD by accident not an 80GB So I still have my spare 160GB SATA drive. She loves it though.

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