[ale] Is there anybody we don't hate too much for Refurbs?

[neal at mnopltd.com]

Good to hear.   I was thinking that I've done six or seven refurb units 
as servers and desktops, and most of them still boot up.  So, given a 
20% failure rating I was about due.

Her desktop has 4GB RAM, which seems light for Win10, and still to run a 
VM, I'd need to buy another Win10 to install, so that's not necessarily 
a win.

On 2019-10-24 11:37, Steve Tynor via Ale wrote:
> I've had good experience (100% success rate with half a dozen or so)
> with refurbs from both Microcenter and Peachtree Computers.
> 
> If you are otherwise happy with your hardware, though, have you
> considered just running Win10 and turbo tax in a virtual machine?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/24/19 12:30 PM, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
>> Slightly off-topic, but not too much.
>> 
>> My wife and partner informs me that TurboTax will no longer run on her 
>> Win7 desktop.   Without TurboTax, life ends as we know it.
>> 
>> We have used off-lease refurbs for most of our company's life.  If 
>> it's a server, I get a refurb and replace the disk with a new mirrored 
>> pair. (and load linux)   If it's a desktop, I feel lucky.
>> 
>> Thus far we've been fortunate at getting them from Tiger Direct. Alas, 
>> no longer.   Got one on Amazon a few years back and that has been fine 
>> for Android development.
>> 
>> So, I trying to find average form factor 8GB, 1TB disk, Win 10 Pro, 
>> VGA & HDMI.    When I look at Amazon, there are plenty of choices.  
>> Many of which have 15-25% one-star ratings. And you read them, it's a 
>> horror show - "arrived with broken power supply", "NIC intermittent",  
>> "Vendor non-communicative".
>> 
>> Yes, Amazon is horrible at policing their suppliers.    I'm 
>> wondering.... are companies being more selective at only letting go of 
>> their desktops when they know they are going south?   Are refurb 
>> vendors getting worse?
>> 
>> Is there anybody we like for refurbs these days?
>> 
>> I see the last one I bought was from Amazon Renewed, which says it has 
>> a 90 day Amazon guarantee.  I just checked at it has a 19% one star 
>> review.   I guess I was just lucky.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> Neal
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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