<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Canada Computers used to have a selection of refurbished computers in stock, but for the most part I think they're sold out: <a href="http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?cPath=7_158&bsort=0&brand=0&price=1&location=0">http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?cPath=7_158&bsort=0&brand=0&price=1&location=0</a><br>
<br></div>They don't mention it on their web site, but I suspect Eco-Tech uses Commercial versions of the Microsoft Registered Refurbisher license on their systems. If the systems display a brown COA check for the text Refurbished on the license. The commercial licenses normally come with a DVD (as opposed to the Citizenship/Charity licenses available to non-profits which don't come with DVD).<br>
<br></div>Having used a Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM for the past several years (on Xubuntu, I don't run Windows on my machine) I can say it was an enormous difference buying new. Here's what I bought: <a href="http://pcpartpicker.com/p/21wsB">http://pcpartpicker.com/p/21wsB</a><br>
<br></div>(except I bought 16GB of RAM, not 4GB)<br><br></div>Most of what I do with the system is ripping my DVD/Blueray collection for our media center (which is a Pentium D/older machine). The one thing I noticed a huge difference on was the speed when loading 5-8 photographs in GIMP.<br>
<br></div>If you're looking strictly at laptops it gets a bit more tricky. We see a lot of "serious" issues with older consumer-grade HP laptops. The one Eco-Tech has listed looks more like a business-class notebook. About the only laptop I'd stay away from is the Windows XP Dell.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:43 AM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I see a number of refurb laptops, computers, and monitors, at <a href="http://www.eco-techrecycling.com/refurbs.php" target="_blank">http://www.eco-techrecycling.<u></u>com/refurbs.php</a> (Found via kijiji search.)<br>
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Anyone with any comments on the offerings?<br>
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Seems to me:<br>
- anything with a trackpoint is a Lenovo business class laptop. More robust?<br>
- Core 2 Duo preferred over others?<br>
- More speed, the better.<br>
- More memory, the better.<br>
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At one time refurb prices were so close to new that it wasn't worth the loss of warranty. Doesn't seem so at the moment - this level of hardware doesn't seem available at, say, Canada Computers. There you either go up a couple hundred for the next class of hardware (new, but Celeron), or down to a smaller screen.<br>
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Comments, experiences?<br>
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