WTB: Cheapish Laptop for Parents

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#279678 31-Oct-2020 22:43

Heya,

I'm on the lookout for a laptop upgrade for the parents, a 13-14" around $400-600 would be great, obviously refurb/second hand is all okay

Based in Auckland

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#2595765 31-Oct-2020 22:50

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#2597761 4-Nov-2020 18:14

Bump, anything out there?

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#2597763 4-Nov-2020 18:19

PBtech refurbs no good? Some computer shops seem be be re-selling them too if you want to buy them locally

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#2597764 4-Nov-2020 18:23

I have an HP 15.4” one lady owner, upgraded to a 480Gb (new) ssd last week and a clean digitally activated Win10.
Hadn’t thought about price but PM if it’s the sort of thing you’re after.
I’m in Tauranga.

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#2597784 4-Nov-2020 19:27

I have a Surface Laptop 1 in brand new condition (platinum, i5, 8gb, 128gb). The wifes laptop broke a key so we sent it back to MS and brought a surface laptop 3. The one I am selling is the refurbed one that came back. It's in brand new condition and has zero cycles on the battery. Asking a bit more than your budget - $850 but I thought I would throw it out there.

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#2597864 4-Nov-2020 21:22

I saw a supplier email this am that was offering HP EliteBook 840 G1 Core i5 4200U for $320+gst, happy to pass on at cost if that suits, they're a pretty good little machine. I got one for my son for school a while ago and it's performed faultlessly. The only downside is that's it running Windows 7 but it may have been upgraded to Windows 10 previously so could have a license if you are prepared to give that a whirl? If not i could ask them for a cost to upgrade to Windows 10.

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#2598128 5-Nov-2020 09:53

save yourself some greif ... :-)
dont buy anything that doesnt have an SSD ,
or factor in cost of upgrading it to SSD

i3's & i5 laptops are sometimes very cheap on trademe.
I bought a 14" i5 for $120 off trademe & installed SSD

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#2598137 5-Nov-2020 10:00

Something like this perhaps?

https://shop.remarkit.co.nz/collections/new-arrivals/products/lenovo-thinkpad-x240-ultrabook?variant=18767825240122

Basically like everyone said youre not going to get something brand new thats "good" for that budget. Ex-lease is the way to go if you want reasonable specs on a tight budget.

That said if you want brand new there are many ~$1000 laptops with decent specs (running AMD CPUs)