Would you buy a second hand laptop computer ?

[Russ BParticipant @russb]

On this tanget, This data talk only refers to old magnet storage aka Hard Drives, PC's that use Solid State Drives aren't affected. For magnetic drives, I would recommend Lowvel.

And talking on point with regards to the OP, the hard drive and a laptop's battery are the only two components that would bother me significantly. Lithium batteries can only be cycled so many times, and degrade if left fully charged all the time, or discharged too much. Hard drives have bearings, bearings have a finite life, eventually things start to go wrong.

On a slight tangent again, Windows 10 licences are digital, and stored on Micro$oft servers, so if your hard drive does fail, there's no panic with regards to finding your key code and registering the installation – you'd just install the same version of Windows 10 you had before, and select "i don't have a key", Micro$oft servers will recognise your system by it's various digital serial numbers and automatically re-active windows. It won't get your data back, but it's a hell of a lot easier to upgrade or change your hard drive and get a clean installation of windows.

[Nick HulmeParticipant @nickhulme30114]

In addition to my desktop machines I'm currently using 6 Notebook PCs, a mix of HP nc6400 and HP 6910p laptops, all are ex-corporate, on arrival all get a new hybrid HDD and as much RAM as they can support.

Checking the minimum age of these will tell you that talk of planned warranty period obsolescence is utter BS.

– Nick

[lug lordParticipant @luglord]

I used to do a lot of laptop repairs mainly the bga rewoking a lot will fail soon especially some of the hp laptops they were always failing on the BGA chips

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