Computer Geek Advice needed......

Since it's a refurbished unit, I'll have to give it a workout right away to see if there are any issues.

 

Ironic that you would post this....I killed my PC about 2 weeks ago ....thus why I have not been on here !
But my 'geek friend ' lent me his "old" laptop....which apparently has 4 times the power that my 12 year old PC did !!!!!:banghead3:

Myself ....i barely notice the difference...cept for his works and mine dont
But now ...I have to go buy some new technology....which falls into "the things I want to do".... just short of sticking a Phillips screw driver in my eye

 

Yeah, I learned a few things in my research. One thing was, you get a pretty good unit for $400 or so. Heck, there's three thousand dollar laptops out there for sale. (and I don't mean 3 $1,000 laptops)

I ended up getting almost all of what I wanted. Had to settle for a slightly smaller hard-drive, but it's still 40% bigger than the one I have now.

Still don't have it. Supposed to arrive tomorrow afternoon.

 

Even with a bit of gaming, that i7 CPU should hold you for a fair while! Generally gaming is considered to be an extremely intensive activity that give your Graphics Processor (GPU) a fair workout. That usually true if you're playing the latest and greatest games. If the game isn't as new as your machine, usually you'll fair pretty well.

It's important to remember that, these days, refurbished isn't always what we think. Most of the large chain stores have to call anything that's been opened and/or returned, "refurbished". Their hardware licensing agreements with manufacturers prevent them from selling used equipment and they are supposed to run the recovery disks any time hardware gets returned to the shelf. Reloading the operating system is far from refurbishing in my mind. Many manufacturers have refurbished sales programs themselves and don't like their toes stepped on. It's very likely that your machine hasn't even been used apart from someone having taken it out of the box and finding that there was something that they don't like.

EDIT: Just noticed that you said it was a Dell. While most of the above holds true, it's definitely nothing to do with licensing. Dell has a pretty extensive return/refurbish program. It's possible that the unit may have undergone repair, but that's a good thing. Factory manufacturing doesn't test new equipment nearly as well as equipment gets tested after it's been returned and been prepped for resale.

 

As a back-up, I have an inside contact with Dell.

 

As with inserting objects into one's ear, it's good to remember to insert in only the blunt end of the object