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expiredLavenderBird5591 posted Jan 07, 2024 01:07 PM

Mystery Laptop (Grade A Refurbished) $240

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50% of customers will receive an i7; 25% of customers will receive an i5 8th generation or newer. (65% of customers will receive 16GB of RAM, 10% will receive 32GB.)

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50% of customers will receive an i7; 25% of customers will receive an i5 8th generation or newer. (65% of customers will receive 16GB of RAM, 10% will receive 32GB.)

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Jan 07, 2024 02:09 PM
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LivelyCalendar9638Jan 07, 2024 02:09 PM
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What in the actual stupid is this? The lack of detail on the i7 laptops implies they will be older than the old ass i5s they are already shipping.
Jan 07, 2024 02:48 PM
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ImaPuppyJan 07, 2024 02:48 PM
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There are some things worth grab bagging. A laptop isn't one of them.
Jan 07, 2024 04:01 PM
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Birdlawyer93Jan 07, 2024 04:01 PM
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Seems like a big gamble, decent chance that you get something not compatible with win 11 and it becomes a brick in Oct 2025 when win 10 loses support. You can install win 11 with a hack but i think most folks would prefer not to go that route.
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Jan 07, 2024 04:04 PM
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sbessireJan 07, 2024 04:04 PM
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Quote from Birdlawyer93 :
Seems like a big gamble, decent chance that you get something not compatible with win 11 and it becomes a brick in Oct 2025 when win 10 loses support. You can install win 11 with a hack but i think most folks would prefer not to go that route.
Computers become bricks without a recent version of windows?
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Jan 07, 2024 04:09 PM
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Birdlawyer93Jan 07, 2024 04:09 PM
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Quote from sbessire :
Computers become bricks without a recent version of windows?
To the vast majority of users, yes. If they don't have an option to upgrade to win 11 from inside the OS and have to create installation media and walk through OS installation, they will likely just buy another machine once the warning messages from the OS get scary enough or they catch a nasty virus.
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Jan 07, 2024 05:10 PM
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Falln2piecesJan 07, 2024 05:10 PM
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Quote from Birdlawyer93 :
To the vast majority of users, yes. If they don't have an option to upgrade to win 11 from inside the OS and have to create installation media and walk through OS installation, they will likely just buy another machine once the warning messages from the OS get scary enough or they catch a nasty virus.
Dude, Ive been doing IT work for almost 30 years. The "vast majority" of users don't even know how to do upgrades for programs they use daily. I have 1 school that refuses to update past windows 7 because another company refuses to make 1 specific lesson plan app compatible with anything after windows 7. The courthouse here still has systems running on XP. As a matter of fact, most government systems still run on XP. So, just stop.
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Jan 07, 2024 05:27 PM
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Birdlawyer93Jan 07, 2024 05:27 PM
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Quote from Falln2pieces :
Dude, Ive been doing IT work for almost 30 years. The "vast majority" of users don't even know how to do upgrades for programs they use daily. I have 1 school that refuses to update past windows 7 because another company refuses to make 1 specific lesson plan app compatible with anything after windows 7. The courthouse here still has systems running on XP. As a matter of fact, most government systems still run on XP. So, just stop.
Nothing you said here contradicts what I wrote. I work in industrial IT, legacy systems are everywhere but they get airgapped and definitely no internet access, otherwise they are cordoned off into their own vlan, locked down, virtualized and imaged. I still have systems running virtualized win2k.

But most businesses are not buying these woot random laptops, it is mostly people who don't care what laptop they get and just want a good deal. These laptops are bad deals for those folks, another $50-100 will get you something win 11 compatible that will be relatively worry free for years. I always assume that personal laptops get used for banking and taxes and advise people to not mess around with running legacy os when the cost of ownership is so low now. Even though these machines are capable of running other operating systems and being useful for many years, it is not worth the headache for your average budget laptop buyer at this point.
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Jan 07, 2024 05:31 PM
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Birdlawyer93Jan 07, 2024 05:31 PM
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For anyone looking at these, consider this recent deal for $330, ram and storage can be upgraded cheap and the processor runs circles around even the best possible processors from this deal.

https://slickdeals.net/share/android_app/t/17213992

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