Friday, February 19, 2010

Buying a used laptop.

After reading the varios websites provided for me I have learned only one thing, they all say the same thing. When buying a laptop it is obvios that you should check for problems, if you don’t then you must be oblivious. When used laptop you should check for cracks, drive failures, component problems, ports that don’t work, an endless amount of things, but is it really worth your time? Personally I would never ever buy a used laptop for many reasons: it is old, most like outdated, no matter how hard you look there will probably always be some kind of little problem, and who knows what the person did on the laptop. Anything is possible.

However, if you have no choice then I suppose you could go buy a used laptop. Be careful though with your choice. If you are unable to see the laptop personally before buying it I suggest that you make some knid of agreement that if somethings is wrong when you get it that they will take it back or pay to have it fixed. If you have access to the laptop before buying it make sure that you check EVERYTHING for problems, and if you do not know much about computer, if it is possible you may want to bring someone with you that does.

In todays societly I believe that is useless to buy a used laptop because there is a chance that even if you can find a flawless used one(not likely) that certain software will not work on it, or that the parts used on it will stop being manufactured, so if you have a components problem there is not much you can do. Now, laptops are not that expensive anyways and won’t put that much of a hole in your bank account. Even if you wait some amount of time the new laptops will drop in price because they will become outdated. If you can’t afford one, I suggest you go get a job and consider maybe waiting to buy a laptop.

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