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expired Posted by iconian | Staff • Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025 4:52 PM
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Some items better your odds (desktops) with components that can be easily cleaned or replaced by you in the future. Sealed laptops are riskier and should be individually researched to know if that model had bad histories (Latitude 5-series laptops). You can check Reddit, Dell Support Communities, etc.
INFERENCE #1 - BUYING FROM DELL OR DELL OUTLET
You're not. You're buying from a 3rd party (FedEx Recycling). That has implications (warranty, refurbishing quality, credit card promos, etc.). We've had many instances when it took 2-5 business days to finally get a response from FedEx Recycling over an order, support or warranty issue. Other issues too that would need another page.
INFERENCE #2 - LIGHTLY USED BY EXECUTIVES
FedEx Recycling obtains thousands of off-lease products annually that were purchased in high volumes from large corporate, government, education and other agencies (charities, non-profits). Some are lightly used, most are moderately used, some are substantially used by many users (like a car rental that's been loaned out daily for 2-3 years). How many times have you spilled coffee on your keyboard or dropped your laptop on the ground - maybe never, but that was personally owned and paid for by you.
Even "Grade A" products may have scratches, paint touchup, or new skin stickers, in addition to worn touchpads, loose ports and dusty fans.
INFERENCE #3 - BUSINESS QUALITY PRODUCTS
Yes, many of these items were built of higher strength (hinges) than personal home-use components, but they were also treated very differently. A used taxi/Uber or rental car is abused much more if not personally and casually used. Many lack home-use features such as HDMI ports and better quality screens (> 220 nits).
INFERENCE #4 - GETTING A HUGE DISCOUNT OFF INITIAL LAUNCH PRICE
Yes, but Dell business products are sold to large volume accounts which receive a 30-60% discount off Dell Business products. That's why they are launched with much higher List Prices. Other considerations: older tech (launched 2-5 years ago), used, short warranty, unrepairable.
We lost about $600 on two Dell Latitudes that failed about 1 and 8 months out of the 90-day FedEx warranty (complete system board failures) but had successes with monitors and desktops. Later, Reddit confirmed that I.T. managers had returned hundreds of Dell Latitudes 5-Series back to Dell with some that said their system boards would eventually prematurely fail anyway. Do some research on owner support sites for any model being considered, and remember, you're not buying from Costco or Best Buy, or an item that was personally cared for.
give it a month or more, and they will have piles of stuff. and better sales too
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Worst case, you'll have to buy a license, or run a linux distro.
Windows doesn't need to be fully validated to work.
Validating just allows full access to some personalizations - otherwise it keeps going
MS threw-in the towel on fighting black market - they want to sell you stuff now.
Personally I would stay away from Windows 11.
Rob Braxman did a good video on MS using keyloggers and taking screen caps of desktop every few seconds.
https://rumble.com/v4zmoxu-copilo...sions.
All performance related not hardware failures
So it seems they concentrate on external cosmetics, not cleaning out the internals which actually matter to longevity.
If your machine supports it you can update from Win10 -> Win 11 at no cost. HTH
Prior to you blowing the Dell image away I would digitally tie it to your Entra ID (your microsoft ID). That way if something goes wrong at least the entitlement is registered. To do this just log in with your microsoft ID when you first get it. The Dell tools are not bad they help on updating the drivers and BIOS, especially on laptops so you may want to reinstall them if you roll a vanilla image.
To see what you have registered, go to account.microsft.com and click on devices.
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Windows doesn't need to be fully validated to work.
Validating just allows full access to some personalizations - otherwise it keeps going
MS threw-in the towel on fighting black market - they want to sell you stuff now.
Personally I would stay away from Windows 11.
Rob Braxman did a good video on MS using keyloggers and taking screen caps of desktop every few seconds.
https://rumble.com/v4zmoxu-copilo...sions.html [rumble.com]
should we try apple instead? and why does MS need to invade privacy in this way?
anyone have any clue why they would do this kind of thing? what happens to all the Info they take from our machines?
thanks
There must be many others in similar situations. If you check eBay, you'll see many listings for Dell Latitudes with system board failures sold as-is parts only. Corporations & governments were only borrowing them on 3-year leases, and most consumers aren't going to tear them apart and spend $100+ on replacement parts to upgrade old Latitude laptops. (Side note - Electronic recycling depots are great sources for unlimited free older computer parts. Soon, I'll be giving them our 2 Latitudes.)
Dell's mission for business customers was to make them with stronger components (hinges) to survive those 2-3 years of employee abuse, but many I.T. managers complained of faulty cooling and therefore performance nowhere near the specs. But Dell went cheap on screen quality (brightness, pixel density), older HDMI 1.4 ports, etc., as employee users weren't the actual buyers.
Dell dropped newer faster processors without wanting to update the chassis vents or supplemental cooling channels, which meant speed dropped and fan overused.
It was smart marketing for Dell as they could promote better speeds and higher prices while saving on development and production costs, and temporary employee users couldn't complain. But now they're reselling (FedEx Recycling) these to more educated consumers using their personal money, with minimal warranties.
any reason?
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There must be many others in similar situations. If you check eBay, you'll see many listings for Dell Latitudes with system board failures sold as-is parts only. Corporations & governments were only borrowing them on 3-year leases, and most consumers aren't going to tear them apart and spend $100+ on replacement parts to upgrade old Latitude laptops. (Side note - Electronic recycling depots are great sources for unlimited free older computer parts. Soon, I'll be giving them our 2 Latitudes.)
if you only do get 90 day laptop, run the diagnostic software like crazy.
Some of these cert used hand Samsung ssd. they make great backup burner laptops.
I got many $150 in 16/512 Intel U in same chassis, cheaper than an as-is laptop.
got new battery, 1 months of uptime (very low mileage). Plus they offer free ez returns with no restock fee and good reasons.
Anything pass $300, buy the 12 month warranty
for regular people something like $300-600 at best buy, ebay, costco is perfect.
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