prycedin via eBay has
17.3" HP Laptop (Certified Refurbished, 17-CN1053CL) on sale for
$335.74 when you apply coupon code
SAVE15REFURB during checkout.
Shipping is free.
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dealhunter07 for finding this deal.
Specs:
- Intel Core i5-1155G7 2.5Ghz 4-Core Processor
- 17.3" FHD 1920x1080 IPS anti-glare 250 nits 45% NTSC Display
- 12GB DDR4-3200 RAM
- 1TB 5400 rpm SATA HDD
- Backlit Keyboard
- Windows 10
- 41-Wh Battery
- 4.58-Lbs
- Ports:
- 1x USB Type-C
- 2x USB Type-A
- 1x HDMI
- 1x Headphone jack
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This laptop is 100% brand new (tho it says refurbished), I have photos of inside motherboard but do not know how to upload here.
The laptop back side has Win 10 serial key, I upgraded to Win 11 and it works fine and super fast.
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Thanks. Not sure if the above pic is helpful, I tried to text it with whatever I can
One memory is Samsung brand 4 GB DDR4 (1Rx16) and another memory is RAMAXEL brand 8 GB DDR4 (1Rx8)
HDD brand is Toshiba (spinning), very noisy, gets real hot, I could feel it my palm while typing in keyboard
WiFi supports 500 MBPs internet, not tested for 1GBPs as I don't have higher speed internet at home to test
This laptop comes with Win 10 OS pre installed and has Win 10 serial key (just print out sticker) pasted by the seller on the back side and I upgraded to Win 11 very easily and the HP Support Assistant app automatically installed all drivers. Took 2-3 hours and several restarts but worth it.
I installed NVMe M.2 SSD stick in the empty slot of this laptop (they gave 1 screw too to hold the stick) and cloned the OS partition from the Toshiba HDD using Macrium Reflect 8 free clone utility and it works flawlessly as it's cloning so no need of Windows serial key.
I am going to replace the HDD with SSD 2.5 SATA next week as my order is delayed at shipping
This laptop is as good as brand new and no traces of any usage or scratches or blemish, it came with brown color original regular branded box that has "HP Refurbished" (something like this, don't remember exactly),
17inch screen is bright and good as I compared it with my other Costco 2019 Thanksgiving bought HP 15.6 Touchscreen laptop and don't see any difference, I use external monitor anyway using the HDMI/USB KVM Switch (bought in AliExpress for $12) and use one keyboard and one wireless mouse for both these laptops.
Apologies if my English is bad, I am from another country and surviving here on a work visa and has strict budget for almost everything so looking for cost effective survival and hence this good laptop is a big deal to me.
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Got the laptop from the last front page deal. Added a new M2 SSD as the OS drive and left the original drive as data drive. Created an installation media on a thumb drive and installed a clean copy of Windows 10 on the M2 SSD. The machine is so fast but have tons of driver issues. It took me several days hunting down a variety of drivers and the wifi driver still would not work.
Ended up upgrading the laptop to Windows 11 after several days of pain. Had serious doubt that maybe I should have bought a similar HP laptop new at COSTCO for $600 (The Costco deal is now gone). The Costco one has very similar specs but has a 512 GB SSD already. After upgrading to Windows 11 all the driver issues are gone. The machine is now very fast with no bloatware due to the clean installation.
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Nvm..according to this link you can get up to 64gb of ram into it
https://h30434.www3.hp.
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Nvm..according to this link you can get up to 64gb of ram into it
https://h30434.www3.hp.
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The mechanical hard drive makes the laptop noticeably slow and gets hot. Ram is upgradeable to 64GB. The wifi card it comes with will disappoint - you can use wifi OR bluetooth, not both at the same time. Fortunately, the mb doesn't whitelist parts so you can upgrade to non-HP wifi cards. I got the Intel AX210 [newegg.com]. You can find many abuse victims talking about how they went back to Windows in the earlier thread for this laptop. I'm not into subjugation so I made mine a nix box. All the hardware was recognized out of the gate once I disabled secure boot in the BIOS.
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