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Written by Calvin Bird
When you’re looking for cheap laptops for personal or business use you have a choice between new, used and refurbished. These days the words “cheap” and “new” don’t often have a lot in common. In fact, any new laptop that’s worth buying is going to set you back $1,000 or more. You could opt instead for a used laptop. But they typically come with a ton of baggage, most of it hidden. At Affordable Computers our cheap laptops are fully refurbished high-end machines that are often lightning fast and come with the latest OS and other software. Still, people ask us all the time: “Are refurbished laptops really worth it?"
Whether you’re a business owner in need of new laptops for your sales team, a school looking to outfit one of your graphic arts classrooms or an individual who just doesn’t want to pay thousands of dollars to enjoy the speed and versatility of today’s best laptops refurbished machines are your best bet.
But while refurbished cheap laptops aren’t going to set you back nearly as much you still need to know whether they’re worth whatever the reseller is asking for them. The answer is an unequivocal “yes”.
A used laptop may be 5 or 6 years old and laden with all kinds of spyware that’s going to quickly steal your personal information and send if off to a cyber thief somewhere. For all you know the person selling the used laptop may have installed a spyware program themselves. So, while you may get this 5 year old security nightmare for a couple of hundred bucks can you really say you got a “deal”? Of course not.
By contrast some refurbished laptops have never been used. They remained unsold on store shelves and then had to be moved to make way for new models. Other refurbished cheap laptops were only used periodically by executives to create Powerpoint presentations or do some research. These machines are typically only a year or two old and lightning fast.
In fact the speed and capabilities of many refurbished machines today make them virtually indistinguishable from brand new machines. So while you may pay a bit more than you would for some antique clunker you’re actually getting a laptop you can use for anything.
Before you decide to purchase a refurbished computer from Affordable Computers in Wheat Ridge, Colorado or anywhere else check about the following things:
At the end of the day the most important thing is to buy from a dealer you can trust. In Colorado that’s Affordable Computers in Wheat Ridge. Stop by and talk to our highly trained experts about whether a refurbished laptop is right for you.