Cheap latops rated for windows 10 no longer able to run without being slow

[Sky-Knight]

I've been wondering when this would happen anyway. The Refurb market depends on companies buying new, and upgrading out. Except... well... Intel hasn't really given us a reason to upgrade out. This lead to the tier 1s doing 5 year warranties on things when they used to be 3. Toss in the pandemic and that's a pretty good storm to exhaust the good stuff from the secondary market's shelves.

I wouldn't expect that to change much, at least until the pandemic is "over", then I imagine there will be laptops everywhere.

 

[NJW]

@Sky-Knight Yes, I think it was inevitable. In March, laptops disappeared almost overnight.

In Europe, most of the refurbs come from the lease market, so they're going to keep coming as leases expire, at least for a while, I imagine. There may be a sudden glut of desktops when unmanned offices come to the attention of the accountants, of course.

 

[sapphirescales]

Holy crap. I'm getting low on my stock of HP Probook 650 G2's/G3's (6th gen i5) so I called up one of my main suppliers. $400 for an A grade. I was paying about $200 to $225 depending on specs. Add a 500GB SSD and I'll be paying in excess of $450 for a 4 year old refurbished laptop. Looks like I'm going to be going through my bone pile after all and fixing old home class laptops to resell.