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caorach said:
I have used these people for refurbed workstations. They do a 1 year warranty on sub £1k laptops and 3 years on laptops over £1k but only 90 days on the battery. I'm not sure I'd buy a refurbed laptop to be honest as there is just so much to go wrong plus they can live quite a hard life in terms of getting moved about, dropped, stuff poured into them etc.

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As your requirements are very minimal I'd probably look at an inexpensive Dell or similar with a warranty. I assume you actually need a laptop and one of these small PCs wouldn't do your job? There are a goodly number of relatively powerful "mini-PCs" available and something suitable for your task might come in around £150. This is the first one I saw and not a recommendation but just to give you some idea of what is out there:

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So, does that mini comp. just replace a tower?
Thanks, Ken.
 
Hi,

I bought a refurbished one off Amazon, made sure it had an i7 processor and it has been great, had it just over a year and no issues, £299.
 
kenbro said:
So, does that mini comp. just replace a tower?
Thanks, Ken.
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If your needs are relatively modest, as per the original question, then it can replace a tower but there will be limitations in terms of expandability, storage etc. These tiny PCs are available in a wide range of prices and as you'd imagine the more you pay then the more powerful the machine is and some of them are even marketed at the gaming market where graphics capabilities in particular are very important.

For general use like emails, surfing etc. then one of these on a bit of velcro attached to the back of the TV and with a wireless keyboard and mouse is all most people need.
 
caorach said:
If your needs are relatively modest, as per the original question, then it can replace a tower but there will be limitations in terms of expandability, storage etc. These tiny PCs are available in a wide range of prices and as you'd imagine the more you pay then the more powerful the machine is and some of them are even marketed at the gaming market where graphics capabilities in particular are very important.

For general use like emails, surfing etc. then one of these on a bit of velcro attached to the back of the TV and with a wireless keyboard and mouse is all most people need.
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I didn’t even know such things existed!
Thanks for reply, Ken.
 
Yorkie said:
Thank you for helping.
I am guessing you are an IT guy.
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Ha ha ha, you caught me. I am indeed, been working in IT since 1990. I work as a cloud architect these days but managed 1000’s of enterprise desktops for a good chunk of my career.
 
Good to have the knowledge on here @FastMacK.
I'm resolved to at least test the output of my power supply, although I think it's the physical connector inboard that isn't connecting.
Bitten once by "refurbished", so I'll likely look to the most basic of Windows laptops new going forward.
 
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