expirediconian | Staff posted Dec 17, 2024 04:48 PM
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expirediconian | Staff posted Dec 17, 2024 04:48 PM
Dell Coupon:55% Off Refurbished Latitude 5421 Touch Laptops - from $288 + free s/h
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The Latitude 5-series are rather heavy, but they're built stronger (hinges, etc.).
But the Latitude 5XXX line has some models that were designed badly, in order to quickly push out large volumes to large scale customers. Some were so bad that places shipped entire models back to Dell because of overheating, freezing, etc. Dell replaced many motherboards, which is why so many ended up at FedEx Recycling ("Dell Refurbished") and Dell's own Dell Outlet.
Before you purchase a particular Latitude 5-series model, please do your research for that model on Reddit, Dell Communities, etc. We've purchased many items from FedEx Recycling but we lost twice on two separate Latitude 5-series models that were completely inoperative outside of the 90-day warranty period - between 6 and 12 months. That was a $600 loss for us.
Consider other Dell models instead, alternative warranties, or purchasing directly from Dell Outlet.
YMMV
First hand experience: used a 5420 for 3 years during a company lease. Worked as it should have. Fan can get loud but also no company laptops are shipping in the CPU restricted "balanced" or "battery saving" modes...they aren't even options normally. Try switching any consumer grade laptop to "performance" mode then doing something CPU / RAM heavy for HOURS....bet the fan gets loud too. Crazy, right? Especially one with a legit laptop CPU like a this i5-11500H (as opposed to something like a i5-1135g7).
My major concern would be battery health and Windows 10 being W10's end of life is next year. Will this pass MS's upgrade checker? Probably? (plenty of ways to force an upgrade regardless).
Not sure I would spend $300 on a 3 year old laptop though. I will say I liked my 5420 battery than my current 5440....that thing is SLOW doing the exact same job. Thank god I get to upgrade it (reads sticker on laptop).....Oct of 2026 (sheds tears)
The Latitude 5-series are rather heavy, but they're built stronger (hinges, etc.).
But the Latitude 5XXX line has some models that were designed badly, in order to quickly push out large volumes to large scale customers. Some were so bad that places shipped entire models back to Dell because of overheating, freezing, etc. Dell replaced many motherboards, which is why so many ended up at FedEx Recycling ("Dell Refurbished") and Dell's own Dell Outlet.
Before you purchase a particular Latitude 5-series model, please do your research for that model on Reddit, Dell Communities, etc. We've purchased many items from FedEx Recycling but we lost twice on two separate Latitude 5-series models that were completely inoperative outside of the 90-day warranty period - between 6 and 12 months. That was a $600 loss for us.
Consider other Dell models instead, alternative warranties, or purchasing directly from Dell Outlet.
YMMV
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Will probably install w11 tiny or Linux mint on it soon.
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