<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>MicroCenter. They stock tons of off-lease Dell gear that comes with a warranty. Plus the added bonus of being able to wander through a physical store. Choose online and pick up in the store.</div><div><br></div><div>Hmm. I always leave with more than intended. Make that a "downside" :-)</div><div><br></div><div>They also carry freeze-dried ice cream and other astronaut food packs.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2019-10-24 at 11:30 -0500, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Slightly off-topic, but not too much.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>My wife and partner informs me that TurboTax will no longer run on her </pre><pre>Win7 desktop. Without TurboTax, life ends as we know it.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>We have used off-lease refurbs for most of our company's life. If it's </pre><pre>a server, I get a refurb and replace the disk with a new mirrored pair. </pre><pre>(and load linux) If it's a desktop, I feel lucky.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Thus far we've been fortunate at getting them from Tiger Direct. Alas, </pre><pre>no longer. Got one on Amazon a few years back and that has been fine </pre><pre>for Android development.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>So, I trying to find average form factor 8GB, 1TB disk, Win 10 Pro, VGA </pre><pre>& HDMI. When I look at Amazon, there are plenty of choices. Many of </pre><pre>which have 15-25% one-star ratings. And you read them, it's a horror </pre><pre>show - "arrived with broken power supply", "NIC intermittent", "Vendor </pre><pre>non-communicative".</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Yes, Amazon is horrible at policing their suppliers. I'm </pre><pre>wondering.... are companies being more selective at only letting go of </pre><pre>their desktops when they know they are going south? Are refurb vendors </pre><pre>getting worse?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Is there anybody we like for refurbs these days?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I see the last one I bought was from Amazon Renewed, which says it has a </pre><pre>90 day Amazon guarantee. I just checked at it has a 19% one star </pre><pre>review. I guess I was just lucky.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Regards,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Neal</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Ale mailing list</pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org"><pre>Ale@ale.org</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale"><pre>https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo"><pre>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</pre></a><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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