When flipping laptops, I tend to clean out the fans/vents and repaste the cpu if possible. It may cost a bit more time and effort but it ensures that the buyer gets good performance out of the laptop, especially if the laptop has been used for 2 years or more.
As an refurbisher i can tell you that most important thing is to clean the cooling system and replace thermal paste and pads in laptops. Pro tools for dissasembly are cheap i will last you a long time.
Agreed, and I'm not sure where you are from, but here in the US, even Walmart is now selling electronics tool kits with most everything you need in a tiny package for $10 USD under the Hyper Tough brand, and I got one as a Christmas gift in my stocking from my girlfriend as I was going to buy an iFixit kit, and no need now because this kit does it at 1/4 the cost.
@@CommodoreFan64 You get what you pay for. I'm sure you get most of the tools an iFixit kit has, but they'd be far worse in quality, and when working with sensitive electronics I wouldn't want to risk using cheap tools. The iFixit kit would pay itself off in no time.
@@ItzRetz Hi Retz, as an owner of several iFixit kits and many generic electronics "fix it" kits, I can tell you there is very little to no difference in the quality of the tools. Mostly the difference is in the case/roll-out bag they come in. I wouldn't waste money on expensive branded kits anymore. One of my favourite kits was 7.99 from amazon and has never done me any wrong.
In the past I sold a few laptops in Germany. What I learned: Also clean them from the inside! In the ad I listed the fact, that there is new coolingpaste and no dust at all. Customers like it clean and also if you sound professional. Telling them, that you also did a cleaning from the inside, could lead to more certainty for your customers. At least that's my experience in Germany. Loved that video. Good luck selling. Kind regards from Germany.
Same experience flipping laptops in Germany. Also, people seem to love laptops here. They are much easier to sell than even good PCs. If I put up a laptop for sale, I get many answers even when it is overpriced. I can sell them for asking Price most of the time.
I tried to sell PC's and notebooks in Austria. People almost do not care for real info here. They don't get the fact that a 45w i5 is better suited for gaming than a low power u- series i7. Very frustrating.
@@Squilliam-Fancyson It's because of marketing, they see i5 vs. i7, and automatically think the i7 is going to be better no matter what you tell them, and it is indeed frustrating.
Finally, a Tech YES City budget laptop flipping video. I've been flipping laptops in Zimbabwe for about 2 years now (Desktop flipping market is horrible due to the 18 hour daily power-cuts, poor tech knowledge of most buyers and outrageous hardware pricing+duty for a generally bad economy) and these Haswell Latitudes are super popular for their battery life, portability and durability, much like ThinkPads. I generally found that SSDs are a massive selling point (if the buyer knows what an SSD is), as are i7, great battery life, aesthetics and the budget price. Great video, as always. For 70 AUD, that was a cracking deal, especially for our market. Good on ya, mate!
It's an experiment, so hasn't flipped yet, but after a couple of hours of being up the enquiries have started rolling in, so far from a worst case scenario :D
@@techyescity Yeah, but First Laptop Experimented with doesn't have the same ring to it. You bought it for a deal and you're gonna try to sell it ;) Yeah you are a desktop guy I know. You brought the Tech YES Mini with you to Taiwan when a bunch of other UA-camrs brought laptops.
that was weird love... no fan and cooling cleaning, no thermal paste replacement. and these can get so messy and thermal paste gets so hard and dry over years.
Apart from functionality & aesthetics , the most important point for laptop flipping is -- change the CMOS battery . Then set the BIOS for fastest boot possible + disable network boot & wake on LAN .
Yes, even a Core2Duo P8800 laptop will run a lot! faster. The only exception are super-low-end CPUs like the E1-2000, there is no real difference if you put in a SSD because those CPUs are much slower than a Core2Duo.
Yep even on a lower end machine, I daily a Lenovo Thinkpad X140e, and upgraded the ram from 4GB to 8GB of DDR3L ram, a 240GB SSD, and with Manjaro Budgie Linux it does everything I need a basic laptop to do, and I'm less then $150 USD into the thing.
It must be possible Brian, although it is a bit different to flipping PC's. I did it for a few years before starting with PC's. There is a bigger market for budget laptops than for PC's because every family owns a laptop. When I could buy one cheap enough (including charger etc), I tended to upgrade the processor (whenever possible on the same socket) and RAM. Parts are relatively cheap. Good luck!
I buy used laptops from companies (e.g. a bulk of HP Elitebook 1040 with i5 and 180GB M.2 SSDs), do all basic checks, open them and clean them with compressed air and restore an image which has all drivers pre-installed. The profit margin is big (100%+) and the amount of work doable because most of these business laptops have just a few screws to remove the botton. Most laptops I sell are much newer than the one shown in the video, however I still get a few from private customers. In that case I replace the thermal paste as well and check also the CMOS battery which is often below 2,7V in these old laptops. I like the idea that you present "Used IT", most of these old laptops are still fast and require only minor repairs and/or a HDD -> SSD swap.
Tip try to upgrade the RAM or battery if the upgrades are cheap usually you should be able to take a few screws off to access the RAM and you can do a few more steps to get to the screen depending if the laptop supports it
I don't know the market in Australia, but I live in Romania 🇷🇴 and that laptop would sell for about 200AUD in good condition. The fact that it's got such a small screen it's a big disadvantage.
Maybe I'm odd, but I like 11.6 - 14in the best. as anything bigger can become a bit much to carry around in backpack, far as size, and weight. I personally daily a 11.6in Lenovo Thinkpad X140e with a 240GB SSD, 8GB DDR3L RAM, and an AMD A4-5000 APU running Manjaro Budgie Linux, and the 720p screen is great at that size.
I have been flipping older laptops to cater towards retro gaming and collections for a while now, so here are my tips over yours: 1. clean the insides and advertise that the insides are well loved and it runs nice and quiet. 2. when you buy laptops over 5 years old, I strongly recommend you stay away from the lower end models (anything under $1200) as they might just break down in your hands (I personally would only get business class, workstation and gaming laptops because of their ease of servisability, even tho I doubt one can get much profits off the later two)
As seen in the video, You listed the laptop as having an M.2 SSD, while the E7240 has an mSATA connection as far as I remember. Maybe double check not to confuse your customers :)
@Deez Nutz I think you might have to refresh your memories. If you google either the laptop or its motherboard, there are no 2.5inch bays in it, nor any full size SATA connectors. You sure you didn't confuse the model number with a different one? Can't find any other explanation.
Hey Bryan! Question, I've always used Goo Gone to get rid of sticker adhesive. Do they sell Goo Gone in Australia? What do you use for sticker removal?
I have a tip in laptop market. If you changes keyboards, try to get original ones since buyers sometimes don't read the specs. They can get angry if it's not like the original feeling and with same backlit. Love your desktop bakground image. I'm in the countryside of North Sweden. It has been a icy winter, but sometimes it's snowy almost like your backgrund image. I rather have a sunny desktop image from a beach in Australia or New Zeeland. Well I broke my wrist a 2nd time when I fell on ice so I can't do any computer stuff anyway. I hope your hand is okey. Love your videos!
Laptops can be ok for flipping depending on the situation. I take anything I can get my hands on even Dead Laptops because I part them out. After doing that for a while I have enough spare RAM to usually upgrade a Laptop to Max RAM & than I toss an SSD in it with a fresh install of Windows. I also take the Laptops apart totally clean them inside & out, Lube the Fans, change the Thermal Paste & Pads & slap it back together. Although taking Laptops apart is tedious lol, I like the person getting it to know it will last for Years to come.
I used to do this when I had a cheap supply and even paid off a car because of it but these days mainly just for fun and collecting. Do it long enough and one will realize just how better made some of the older laptops are where they are serviceable and if something died it didn't mean needing to rework or replacing the board ect. These days all what most laptops are just dinky ultra thing toys with rare and costly exceptions, the good ones turn up to the thick heavy tanks that can take a beating for years without breaking down. For those on a budget wanting a cheap laptop that can do esports titles without being crap then look at Dell Precisions from the second to fourth gen plus they are much more serviceable on a budget than anything after.
One thing that keeps me coming back for Dell Latitudes to refurbish for sale & donation to the charity I volunteer for is that Dell publish good service manuals, keep records of the build specifications, and a respectable amount of drivers on their support website; accessible via the service tag.
Got to say, videos like this are useful to have.... Always giving an angle that you may have overlooked. Example - I've not considered anything about the strata of laptops beyond "home/student" and "gaming". Business, budget home and suchlike aren't even facets I'd even though of.
Another general tip, besides getting deals on decommissioned business laptops, around here I pick up laptops cheap when school gets out, then resell when school is back in session :)
Some of the business class Dell laptops support a second drive in a mSATA slot (It will be marked as WWAN). While it's an extra expense at around $40-$70 USD, it gives you an option to add a second drive for storage and you can recoup that cost.
I have been flipping laptops for about 18 months in addition to desktops/gaming PCs. In addition to some of the tips given, I would also say to always include the model number in the ad. For Dell specifically, you can enter the Service Tag on the Dell site to see the original configuration info. For HP, the model number will do the same thing. Lastly, both Dell and HP have diagnostics you can run to make sure all the components are in good working order. Happy hunting!
Hi Bryan, quick question...I have seen you use the Australian Export version of WD40 to clean your pc/laptop and was wondering if this product comes with the odour of the regular WD40 and if so.....doesn’t it affect the sale of your pc etc due to this odour?
Upgrading to SSD, is the best bang for the buck, just the boot speed alone is highly impressive. A 256GB brand name SSD is only $50Au and it will give a older slower machine a huge performance boost.
if you enter the service tag into the dell site you will get the full original config, including the fact it is a 12.5", and the mil spec magnesium chassis (like all lat 7000 machines). This is true for all dell machines. you also get service manuals. Also lats are basically the best laptops in the consumer market, so dont expect it to have a normal price
@@CommodoreFan64 From rain to a drainer; Jesus you just took a hardish, but somewhat easy going distro and put a flawed manjaro and the devs that do it badly.
One thing to note is the older nvidia graphics in laptops. They dont perform as well as their desktop counterparts. Flipping gaming laptops will definitely be harder than a business laptop imo
Yes I would blow out cooler and renew paste on CPU, even renew motherboard battery on older laptops. It's all worth doing because you can then advertise as serviced so adding value.
Wow.. I literally just bought my first laptop off Gumtree after having only been interested in desktop parts for years.. and here you've already made a video about laptops yesterday! My life is a simulation..
I love this model, the Latitude E 7240! It has a varient with 1080p touchscreen, easy to recognize because it's lid is matte black, not silver. Also it has an additional slot for SSD, so I made a raid 0 with 2 SSD s, 256gb each. One thing to watch out for is the keyboard, that is the one part that might go wrong first.
Hey TYC, Do you ever wonder if putting up a video 'lets the cat out of the bag' so to speak? What I mean is: a potential buyer sees the video of a build and makes their decision to buy or to haggle over the price based on what you paid originally. I just could see that happening in today's world... everybody's looking for leverage. Now don't think that I want you to quit making this content, noooo, the part hunts and flipping are my favs... I almost cracked my screen "hittin' that like button!
Last year I bought a dead Thinkpad T450 to replace the broken lid of my kid's T450 for $50cdn. I mentioned to the guy my T440's network card was kind of flaky and he offered me a bunch of T440 parts for free. Took them, and was able to make a working T440 from them without too much effort. So, repaired my kid's T450 and got a working T440 out of the deal, and also have extra parts (including adapters and external and internal batteries).
Id be surprised if you get over $300 for it brian, 200-250 would be what id say you should get for it as that seems to be the going rate for used laptops regardless of the specs ive found and ive been flipping PC and laptops for a decade now in Australia and this seems to be the sweet spot for used Laptops ($250) Anything older like Core 2 Machines or Athlon laptops around 80-120$
Flip a Macbook Pro. They're the best looking used laptop and 2012+ models with the retina display still go for $400 USD. Plus it'd be a change of pace in content. Great video!
I have modeled my side hustle after your content. I do happen to have some experience in flipping laptops. You seem to have the basics covered pay attention to the processor hdd/ssd, battery and graphics. Select your market based on those factors ( student, business,gaming). In my experience there are very hard lines drawn on those factors.
Thanks,great as usual !! BTW,you just GOT TO check that touchpad,it could be bad !!!! Got myself for sale an old gaming Lenovo, with not one ,but 2 Sli'ed GeForce 650M. With M.2 SSD -249 GB,and fast 7200 rpm 500 GB hdd,it listed at 520$. With I7 2.4,big screen, it's capable of running CS:GO rather nice.
That's one freakin good laptop. Had the bigger one with the 14" screen, same cpu, 8gigs of ram, 256gb ssd + 1080p panel resolution. Sold it for 400 about a year ago.
If you're going to flip laptops, dell business class laptops are the way to go. Definitely the easiest laptops to work on, plus I've never walked into a goodwill that didn't have a dell 90w or 130w charger.
I just bought one of these - they are amazing value. The built quality is a big strong point - you should stress that in the sales ad. As a former Dell Technical Support Professionel I know that regarding laptops built quality is just as important as specs. I bought mine from www.refurb.eu - their business model is based on a grading system ranging from A-C, maybe you could look into that if you are deciding to go into the laptop market. Great video as always - thanks! (Ps. many Dell E7240´s have a minor fan noise issue, mine had this aswell. Disabling turbo boost in the BIOS and installing the newest wireless driver sorted the issue for me - but look it up, there are varying solutions on the interwebs.)
ps. remember to update the BIOS, the latest one fixed a critical security issue. Also, you can market it as a "Ultrabook" like Dell did. Ultrabook + i7 + tech yes lovin' + rgb bling = profit!
I used to fix laptop's about 7years ago. Its definitely more of a challenge when it comes to replacing motherboards and other hardware hidden inside. I also used to get alot of MacBook AIR's in the shop. I sent everyone back out with a dual boot Windows setup. Not one has ever came back. And making $300 for each was certainly paying the bills. On the question of the day. I'd recommend getting the 4th Gen. i5. Run it for about a month and if it doesn't put out the performance your looking for, just upgrade it to 4th Gen. i7. I did that with a i7 i5 3570 and made the jump a month later to the 3770K and Z77 Extreme4. That with an RX480 8GB is a great 1080p high-ultra settings gaming rig. It also has PCIe 3.0 as well as USB 3.0 on board. A Bluetooth chip and WiFi card brought that PC backcto life for a good allrounder. Its still running strong today. My pops is never far away from the PC i gave him. He totally loves it.
Hey Bryan, I would be wary on this particular model. If you can get working versions of them they are ok. But if you need to add parts like SSD or Ram then those parts are a little more expensive. The SSD is not your standard m2 connection and the Ram uses a low power variant 1.35. Earlier and later Latitudes have more standard parts. Micka
its funny that i snagged a toshiba portege a30-a for $30 usd last sunday from the flea market. what heppened is that i just asked a guy that sells laptops if he has any laptops with problems for sale, so he pulls out the toshiba and begins to tell me that its not accepting any ram that he puts in it, except 1 2gb stick, so i take it apart at home and realize that he was trying to make an ecc ram work in a non ecc motherboard. so yeah i have spare parts and add 4gb of non ecc ram and it works perfectly!
I sell computers for a living but laptops have always been difficult for me. I just don't know enough about them to know what a reasonable price for them would be, and a lot of them have completely dead batteries or no chargers. I just don't feel comfortable selling someone something that could realistically break at any second and I'd have no idea how to fix it. At least with the PCs I sell I can help people out if they have issues with them.
I got a "broken" Dell E6540 workstation for free some time ago, without a charger. I took it for parts, as it had an i7 Haswell quad-core in it. Turned out the only thing broken in it was the memory and the missing boot drive. Put in an SSD I got in a lot for €15, bought a second had charger for it for €30 and put in 8GB RAM I could get for €15. Made a nice quick €200 profit on it ^^. It's a shame though notebooks like don't go for much here. Wonder how much you can get for that E7420 you got, I'd say no more than about 300 AUD but I don't know how the Aussie market is also
It is indeed an i7, but the lapop "u" series processors older that the 8th generation can't compare with even budget laptop processors that are in stores now.
Very true. Thats why you go for the watts, instead of the "marketing name", when deciding on a notebook cpu. People dont get it, that a 45w i5 has more power than a u series crap i7.
what are you calling 'budget laptop processor' ?The most budget laptops nowadays got some crappy celerons or pentiums and they are slow as hell even doing the most basic stuff like browsing. This i7 even "u" series will outperform them no problem.
@@Prlz3 I was thinking more of something like the "U" series i3. If we're talking about the Celerons and Pentiums some of them got to the same performance as older i5s and i7s, but most of them are still crappy. On the AMD side of things even a Ryzen 3200u is quite decent for daily tasks.
if you want to flip a few on eBay, look for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, as overall they really tend to hold their value for their overall good build quality, however the E series(Edu Series/Educational Series) while good, and I daily a Lenovo Thinkpad X140e(Edu series) don't tend to hold their value as much do to the fact they were made for K-12th grade education, but can be something you could flip as a value PC for a kid with something like Manajro Budgie Linux installed on it, but I would not charge more then $130 USD when I can pick them up on eBay without mods(RAM/SSD upgrades) for $80 -$100 USD from educational surplus liquidators. I'll let you go the conversion rates.
From my own experience some customers compare used gaming laptops with consoles. They want a "gaming laptop" but they don't really know why they want a laptop to do that gaming. Consoles win the price/performance game there due to the knowledge discrepancy. I was selling a Lenovo 6th gen i7 laptop with a 960M and had a really hard time getting more than 350$ (roughly translated) since most people who were interested just wanted to know if they could game on their couch with it.
These dell latitude laptops are really nice (pre-2016). I personally owned a E6440 and I have nothing bad to say about it other than the thermal throttling. But I’d say anything after the E5570 isn’t very good (especially the keyboard)
Should have told the guy at the end about a e3 1230v3 which has AVX 2 and i7 2600 does not they cost about the same I'd prefer to have something on 1150 socket instead of 1155 because of usb 3 and higher supported ram speeds and lower power consumption but that's just me. Even though the beast Sandy bridge platform is still chugging along! Love the videos brian your the reason I build and flip pcs keep it up!
1.You should mention what parts you can upgrade and what you cant. 2.How much ram and storage does the laptop supports. 3.Press the like button. 4.Write what's the rezolution of display in description.
I am not sure if you haven't, but the Asus 4K MG28UQ monitor is a budget gaming 4K and you should do a video on it! (Of course if you are able to. Being on the upside down portion of the Earth may not net the availability)
Some laptops - post 2014 - have nvme 2 sockets. Discovered this after stripping my 17" HP DV 7 Pavillion which had a 'hybrid' boot system which was actually a 20GB Nvme in it.. The case plastic isn't the best in durability...
I just picked up a lenovo p50 for $75, guys keep your eyes peeled for office buildings doing a replacement of their computers. The executives usually have the nicest toys:)
I flipped 4 laptops last month. I just look for 25-35 dollar machine then upgrade with what reasonable and look for 50-75 dollar profit. Maybe I could make more but they go quick and if they only require an hour of my time I say yes.
That laptop is the same as the Maingear Element and the Eluktronics MAG 15 so you should be able to find plenty of reviews from others on it. With that said, I'd love to see a review from Tech YES City about it
Here in the states, and I happened on a HP Envy Touchsmart 4th gen Core i5 4200U that wasn't booting up. After opening found the battery was swollen and the RAM was dead and the keyboard was no good. Replacement parts come to roughly $100USD (with an upgrade from 4GB to 16GB RAM, 8GB and 16GB were same price!). Threw in a cheap SSD and not sure if I should flip it or keep it, as I do alot of traveling. Computer was given to me not working. Your thoughts?
Whoa if that fetches your asking the laptop market is great there. Around me that would go for $200 CDN or less but laptops are more popular here so the used market is flooded.
@@MrBearyMcBearface well I'm talking about gaming laptops in particular. The ryzen 7 3rd gen in laptop is not much faster than the ryzen 5 3rd gen. Both are quad core, and not much cheaper than the Intel equivalent. While on the other side, the i7 8th gen or 9th gen (basically the same) have 2 extra cores (6 cores instead of 4 on both the ryzen 5 and 7) and is much more powerful than the i5 in laptops. That is why I say ryzen is not good in laptops, at least at the moment. Even the lowered powered ryzen 4th gen laptop chips (the ones with "U" in the name) have more cores making them definitely a viable choice for powerful laptops, and great for the latest games. My i7 8750h laptop is great at gaming, with the only downside being it's too powerful for almost any laptop to handle, you will most likely encounter power or thermal throttling when the CPU is stressed. My laptop has both and my laptop is considered to be one that runs cool. Because Ryzen is now 7nm this could change the game in 4th gen Ryzen. But we need to wait and see.
Laptap market is very healthy as bought a Lenovo Yoga 12 with mid specs an touch screen convertible in great shape for $80 and sol it for $230 an also a Dell E5550 with the rare 5th gen i-7 in it 16gb and 1080 screen - etc... $120 delivered to me! It was to nice, so I kept it.... I wish it had a GPU in it but that is rare for the model so intel 630 graphics it is... Anything #Broadwell is pricey, Especially the broadwell desktop cpu's with the apple eyefinity... Look at this four ore cpu's... the 5575c, etc on ebay.... The reason why my DREAM cpu which is Broadwell and a xeon with 14 cores / 28 threads is still out of reach for price to performance... :(
Did you wipe the hd and do a clean install of windows? If you didn't then I'd be careful there wasn't any "inappropriate" photos or videos from the previous owner on it.
In my experience selling things like laptops, the market you're shooting for is students. And that can be older students who need the laptop personally, and even young families who have young kids that need to do homework and don't want to go to the library to type and print. I've even sold laptops to young moms whose kids are now in elementary school and they are also going back to finish their college degree. So many people these days don't have actual computers and just phones and tablets, so they need something to get real work done with. And I've been using an i5 4460 the last few years and recently put in an RX 580 and the i5 is the bottleneck for sure. Before my gtx 780 often was, but the RX 580 can use more CPU to really fly. And when looking for upgrades I've learned 4th gen i7 are way overpriced. My long-term plan to upgrade has been to buy a second 4th gen cheap office system with an i7, swap the CPU and flip it. But even that has proved difficult.
That power adapter is for Dell docking stations not laptops, the give away is it has a blue led ring, is bigger at 130w, it should be smaller, 90w with a white led ring but otherwise good video, keep it up
Could you do a test on the nvidia «ultra low latency mode» where you compare the differences in input lag in both cpu and gpu bound games. Some people have apparently found that the ultra low latency mode actually increases your input lag when the gpu isnt maxed out or when you are playing a cpu bound game.
well, if you got mx/xm/qm version [before intel change them to HQ, H, HK version] how much you can flip ? cz i7 U series before 8th gen is dual core [M only version too]
When flipping laptops, I tend to clean out the fans/vents and repaste the cpu if possible. It may cost a bit more time and effort but it ensures that the buyer gets good performance out of the laptop, especially if the laptop has been used for 2 years or more.
that is the smart way to do it! hard to imagine not doing so
We call that "Tech Yes Lovin" here in Tech Yes City. Apply to Marco for citizenship.
Alvin Wong yeah since laptop heat sinks are really small they collect dust easily
@@Trick-Framed how much shall one have to spend to bribe Marco? I have beer and a WD40 clone.
Yea exactly. It also means if someone close by wants to test it out first they can have a better experience and maybe want to buy it more
As an refurbisher i can tell you that most important thing is to clean the cooling system and replace thermal paste and pads in laptops. Pro tools for dissasembly are cheap i will last you a long time.
Agreed, and I'm not sure where you are from, but here in the US, even Walmart is now selling electronics tool kits with most everything you need in a tiny package for $10 USD under the Hyper Tough brand, and I got one as a Christmas gift in my stocking from my girlfriend as I was going to buy an iFixit kit, and no need now because this kit does it at 1/4 the cost.
@@CommodoreFan64 You get what you pay for. I'm sure you get most of the tools an iFixit kit has, but they'd be far worse in quality, and when working with sensitive electronics I wouldn't want to risk using cheap tools. The iFixit kit would pay itself off in no time.
@@ItzRetz Hi Retz, as an owner of several iFixit kits and many generic electronics "fix it" kits, I can tell you there is very little to no difference in the quality of the tools. Mostly the difference is in the case/roll-out bag they come in. I wouldn't waste money on expensive branded kits anymore. One of my favourite kits was 7.99 from amazon and has never done me any wrong.
I just left a very similar comment, sound advice M8
@@NonEventHorizon 1 year late but can you tell me the name of the kit please
In the past I sold a few laptops in Germany. What I learned: Also clean them from the inside! In the ad I listed the fact, that there is new coolingpaste and no dust at all. Customers like it clean and also if you sound professional. Telling them, that you also did a cleaning from the inside, could lead to more certainty for your customers. At least that's my experience in Germany.
Loved that video. Good luck selling. Kind regards from Germany.
Same experience flipping laptops in Germany. Also, people seem to love laptops here. They are much easier to sell than even good PCs.
If I put up a laptop for sale, I get many answers even when it is overpriced. I can sell them for asking Price most of the time.
I tried to sell PC's and notebooks in Austria. People almost do not care for real info here. They don't get the fact that a 45w i5 is better suited for gaming than a low power u- series i7. Very frustrating.
@@Squilliam-Fancyson It's because of marketing, they see i5 vs. i7, and automatically think the i7 is going to be better no matter what you tell them, and it is indeed frustrating.
Finally, a Tech YES City budget laptop flipping video. I've been flipping laptops in Zimbabwe for about 2 years now (Desktop flipping market is horrible due to the 18 hour daily power-cuts, poor tech knowledge of most buyers and outrageous hardware pricing+duty for a generally bad economy) and these Haswell Latitudes are super popular for their battery life, portability and durability, much like ThinkPads. I generally found that SSDs are a massive selling point (if the buyer knows what an SSD is), as are i7, great battery life, aesthetics and the budget price. Great video, as always. For 70 AUD, that was a cracking deal, especially for our market. Good on ya, mate!
The first laptop to be flipped and Tech YES Loved! History in the making!
It's an experiment, so hasn't flipped yet, but after a couple of hours of being up the enquiries have started rolling in, so far from a worst case scenario :D
@@techyescity Yeah, but First Laptop Experimented with doesn't have the same ring to it. You bought it for a deal and you're gonna try to sell it ;)
Yeah you are a desktop guy I know. You brought the Tech YES Mini with you to Taiwan when a bunch of other UA-camrs brought laptops.
that was weird love... no fan and cooling cleaning, no thermal paste replacement. and these can get so messy and thermal paste gets so hard and dry over years.
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Apart from functionality & aesthetics , the most important point for laptop flipping is -- change the CMOS battery . Then set the BIOS for fastest boot possible + disable network boot & wake on LAN .
Many people buy laptops these days :)
And updating a laptop from hdd to ssd is one of the best upgrades you can do for sure ;)
@Fetus PC-TECH yeah, i did rhat for i5-2410m laptop + changed paste so it works like a fresh new laptop ;)
Yes, even a Core2Duo P8800 laptop will run a lot! faster. The only exception are super-low-end CPUs like the E1-2000, there is no real difference if you put in a SSD because those CPUs are much slower than a Core2Duo.
Yep even on a lower end machine, I daily a Lenovo Thinkpad X140e, and upgraded the ram from 4GB to 8GB of DDR3L ram, a 240GB SSD, and with Manjaro Budgie Linux it does everything I need a basic laptop to do, and I'm less then $150 USD into the thing.
too bad cpus are BGA these days, would be cool to still be able to upgrade CPUs.
Don't think I would have labeled an i7 4600U as "blazingly fast"🤣🤣🤣, otherwise, spot on ad!
Whaaaa? I tried out the i7 4600U, it ran _RollerCoaster Tycoon_ so fast. Didn't experience even one slowdown.
@@MarcoGPUtuber cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-4600U-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3230M/m2752vs2772
@@Trick-Framed Of course. I'm just jokin around.
@@MarcoGPUtuber I know... you didn't say Crysis, you said "Roller Coaster Tycoon" lol...🤣🤣🤣
@@Trick-Framed Buy an i7 4600U. Runs the best of 1998 flawlessly.
The i7 4600U is a hyperthreaded dual core... So 2c/4t. Basically an i3.
To me Intel is just pooring some marketing BS in everyone buying a laptop
It must be possible Brian, although it is a bit different to flipping PC's. I did it for a few years before starting with PC's. There is a bigger market for budget laptops than for PC's because every family owns a laptop. When I could buy one cheap enough (including charger etc), I tended to upgrade the processor (whenever possible on the same socket) and RAM. Parts are relatively cheap. Good luck!
Crazy value i7 laptop from the ground up 75$!! Too easy Bryan!! Nice!
I buy used laptops from companies (e.g. a bulk of HP Elitebook 1040 with i5 and 180GB M.2 SSDs), do all basic checks, open them and clean them with compressed air and restore an image which has all drivers pre-installed.
The profit margin is big (100%+) and the amount of work doable because most of these business laptops have just a few screws to remove the botton.
Most laptops I sell are much newer than the one shown in the video, however I still get a few from private customers. In that case I replace the thermal paste as well and check also the CMOS battery which is often below 2,7V in these old laptops.
I like the idea that you present "Used IT", most of these old laptops are still fast and require only minor repairs and/or a HDD -> SSD swap.
Tip try to upgrade the RAM or battery if the upgrades are cheap usually you should be able to take a few screws off to access the RAM and you can do a few more steps to get to the screen depending if the laptop supports it
I don't know the market in Australia, but I live in Romania 🇷🇴 and that laptop would sell for about 200AUD in good condition. The fact that it's got such a small screen it's a big disadvantage.
Maybe I'm odd, but I like 11.6 - 14in the best. as anything bigger can become a bit much to carry around in backpack, far as size, and weight. I personally daily a 11.6in Lenovo Thinkpad X140e with a 240GB SSD, 8GB DDR3L RAM, and an AMD A4-5000 APU running Manjaro Budgie Linux, and the 720p screen is great at that size.
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I have been flipping older laptops to cater towards retro gaming and collections for a while now, so here are my tips over yours:
1. clean the insides and advertise that the insides are well loved and it runs nice and quiet.
2. when you buy laptops over 5 years old, I strongly recommend you stay away from the lower end models (anything under $1200) as they might just break down in your hands (I personally would only get business class, workstation and gaming laptops because of their ease of servisability, even tho I doubt one can get much profits off the later two)
As seen in the video, You listed the laptop as having an M.2 SSD, while the E7240 has an mSATA connection as far as I remember. Maybe double check not to confuse your customers :)
@Deez Nutz I am talking about the physical connector and drive for factor, not the connection standard.
@Deez Nutz mSATA
@Deez Nutz that laptop does not have any 2.5inch drive bays, so it cant be standard SATA. There is only room for an SSD in an mSATA form factor
@Deez Nutz I think you might have to refresh your memories. If you google either the laptop or its motherboard, there are no 2.5inch bays in it, nor any full size SATA connectors. You sure you didn't confuse the model number with a different one? Can't find any other explanation.
@Deez Nutz you linked a E7240 a much heavier older laptop, the one he is working on is a E7420
Hey Bryan! Question, I've always used Goo Gone to get rid of sticker adhesive. Do they sell Goo Gone in Australia? What do you use for sticker removal?
if multipurpose spray doesn't do it, then i got some stuff in a bottle that melts it away. Forgot the name, dadman gave it to me.
Tea tree oil or eucalyptus oil are both decent if you've got them around.
@@techyescity always try to find one with a gpu. Those make a big difference in asking prices. Cpu,ram,hdd can always be replaced
@@tqrules01 Except some laptops come with *shudder soldered RAM! O_O
When selling a laptop with an iGPU you are better off with 16gb. That iGPU can use over a GB and 8gb is just not enough these days..
I have a tip in laptop market. If you changes keyboards, try to get original ones since buyers sometimes don't read the specs. They can get angry if it's not like the original feeling and with same backlit.
Love your desktop bakground image. I'm in the countryside of North Sweden. It has been a icy winter, but sometimes it's snowy almost like your backgrund image. I rather have a sunny desktop image from a beach in Australia or New Zeeland. Well I broke my wrist a 2nd time when I fell on ice so I can't do any computer stuff anyway. I hope your hand is okey. Love your videos!
Laptops can be ok for flipping depending on the situation. I take anything I can get my hands on even Dead Laptops because I part them out. After doing that for a while I have enough spare RAM to usually upgrade a Laptop to Max RAM & than I toss an SSD in it with a fresh install of Windows. I also take the Laptops apart totally clean them inside & out, Lube the Fans, change the Thermal Paste & Pads & slap it back together. Although taking Laptops apart is tedious lol, I like the person getting it to know it will last for Years to come.
I used to do this when I had a cheap supply and even paid off a car because of it but these days mainly just for fun and collecting. Do it long enough and one will realize just how better made some of the older laptops are where they are serviceable and if something died it didn't mean needing to rework or replacing the board ect. These days all what most laptops are just dinky ultra thing toys with rare and costly exceptions, the good ones turn up to the thick heavy tanks that can take a beating for years without breaking down. For those on a budget wanting a cheap laptop that can do esports titles without being crap then look at Dell Precisions from the second to fourth gen plus they are much more serviceable on a budget than anything after.
One thing that keeps me coming back for Dell Latitudes to refurbish for sale & donation to the charity I volunteer for is that Dell publish good service manuals, keep records of the build specifications, and a respectable amount of drivers on their support website; accessible via the service tag.
Got to say, videos like this are useful to have.... Always giving an angle that you may have overlooked. Example - I've not considered anything about the strata of laptops beyond "home/student" and "gaming".
Business, budget home and suchlike aren't even facets I'd even though of.
Another general tip, besides getting deals on decommissioned business laptops, around here I pick up laptops cheap when school gets out, then resell when school is back in session :)
Some of the business class Dell laptops support a second drive in a mSATA slot (It will be marked as WWAN). While it's an extra expense at around $40-$70 USD, it gives you an option to add a second drive for storage and you can recoup that cost.
I have been flipping laptops for about 18 months in addition to desktops/gaming PCs. In addition to some of the tips given, I would also say to always include the model number in the ad. For Dell specifically, you can enter the Service Tag on the Dell site to see the original configuration info. For HP, the model number will do the same thing. Lastly, both Dell and HP have diagnostics you can run to make sure all the components are in good working order. Happy hunting!
Hi Bryan, quick question...I have seen you use the Australian Export version of WD40 to clean your pc/laptop and was wondering if this product comes with the odour of the regular WD40 and if so.....doesn’t it affect the sale of your pc etc due to this odour?
Great question, i'm interested as well
Yeah tried it. It does leave a bit of a smell for a couple of days. Stronger than the multi purpose spray which odours off after 2 hours.
have soldabout 15 Dell laptops now, good market for them, always make at least $ 60.00-180.00 per machine, beware of locked BIOs ones but mate Andrew
Upgrading to SSD, is the best bang for the buck, just the boot speed alone is highly impressive. A 256GB brand name SSD is only $50Au and it will give a older slower machine a huge performance boost.
if you enter the service tag into the dell site you will get the full original config, including the fact it is a 12.5", and the mil spec magnesium chassis (like all lat 7000 machines). This is true for all dell machines. you also get service manuals.
Also lats are basically the best laptops in the consumer market, so dont expect it to have a normal price
Yes, replace the Windows 7 sticker with an Arch linux one.
Yeah
For the average user I would NO to Arch, but I would go with an Arch based distro like Manjaro W/Budgie DE, as it's more friendly.
@@CommodoreFan64 From rain to a drainer;
Jesus you just took a hardish, but somewhat easy going distro and put a flawed manjaro and the devs that do it badly.
Arch is for babies. Use Gentoo.
@@MrBearyMcBearface Arch is for lazy people who don't have the time to compile everything on their own. /g/entoo bae tho if it wasn't for that :)
One thing to note is the older nvidia graphics in laptops. They dont perform as well as their desktop counterparts. Flipping gaming laptops will definitely be harder than a business laptop imo
Good luck for the new market!! ;-)
What happened to I wish I was a mad man as your intro, I haven’t heard it recently
is there a full music to that?
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Dell professional line is supported for a long time. This is very relevant for used machines.
Yes I would blow out cooler and renew paste on CPU, even renew motherboard battery on older laptops. It's all worth doing because you can then advertise as serviced so adding value.
Wow.. I literally just bought my first laptop off Gumtree after having only been interested in desktop parts for years.. and here you've already made a video about laptops yesterday! My life is a simulation..
I love this model, the Latitude E 7240! It has a varient with 1080p touchscreen, easy to recognize because it's lid is matte black, not silver. Also it has an additional slot for SSD, so I made a raid 0 with 2 SSD s, 256gb each. One thing to watch out for is the keyboard, that is the one part that might go wrong first.
Hey TYC, Do you ever wonder if putting up a video 'lets the cat out of the bag' so to speak? What I mean is: a potential buyer sees the video of a build and makes their decision to buy or to haggle over the price based on what you paid originally. I just could see that happening in today's world... everybody's looking for leverage. Now don't think that I want you to quit making this content, noooo, the part hunts and flipping are my favs... I almost cracked my screen "hittin' that like button!
Last year I bought a dead Thinkpad T450 to replace the broken lid of my kid's T450 for $50cdn. I mentioned to the guy my T440's network card was kind of flaky and he offered me a bunch of T440 parts for free. Took them, and was able to make a working T440 from them without too much effort. So, repaired my kid's T450 and got a working T440 out of the deal, and also have extra parts (including adapters and external and internal batteries).
Still rockin a i7 Haswell CPU in my notebook. The 4720HQ, 45w. Still enough power for most tasks I deal with on the go.
Id be surprised if you get over $300 for it brian, 200-250 would be what id say you should get for it as that seems to be the going rate for used laptops regardless of the specs ive found and ive been flipping PC and laptops for a decade now in Australia and this seems to be the sweet spot for used Laptops ($250) Anything older like Core 2 Machines or Athlon laptops around 80-120$
Flip a Macbook Pro. They're the best looking used laptop and 2012+ models with the retina display still go for $400 USD. Plus it'd be a change of pace in content. Great video!
If not confident or too lazy to open an overheating laptop a vacuum cleaner up against fan outlets can do wonders in clearing out dust!
I use an E7440 (the 14" model) with an i5 as my primary work machine. I upgraded mine to 16GB of RAM with a 512GB SSD. They are great machines.
Did he open that up and confirm an m.2? Most people replace the old 2.5" pos hard drive and install an ssd.
I have modeled my side hustle after your content. I do happen to have some experience in flipping laptops. You seem to have the basics covered pay attention to the processor hdd/ssd, battery and graphics. Select your market based on those factors ( student, business,gaming). In my experience there are very hard lines drawn on those factors.
Thanks,great as usual !!
BTW,you just GOT TO check that touchpad,it could be bad !!!!
Got myself for sale an old gaming Lenovo, with not one ,but 2 Sli'ed GeForce 650M.
With M.2 SSD -249 GB,and fast 7200 rpm 500 GB hdd,it listed at 520$.
With I7 2.4,big screen, it's capable of running CS:GO rather nice.
That's one freakin good laptop. Had the bigger one with the 14" screen, same cpu, 8gigs of ram, 256gb ssd + 1080p panel resolution. Sold it for 400 about a year ago.
If you're going to flip laptops, dell business class laptops are the way to go. Definitely the easiest laptops to work on, plus I've never walked into a goodwill that didn't have a dell 90w or 130w charger.
I just bought one of these - they are amazing value. The built quality is a big strong point - you should stress that in the sales ad. As a former Dell Technical Support Professionel I know that regarding laptops built quality is just as important as specs. I bought mine from www.refurb.eu - their business model is based on a grading system ranging from A-C, maybe you could look into that if you are deciding to go into the laptop market.
Great video as always - thanks!
(Ps. many Dell E7240´s have a minor fan noise issue, mine had this aswell. Disabling turbo boost in the BIOS and installing the newest wireless driver sorted the issue for me - but look it up, there are varying solutions on the interwebs.)
ps. remember to update the BIOS, the latest one fixed a critical security issue. Also, you can market it as a "Ultrabook" like Dell did. Ultrabook + i7 + tech yes lovin' + rgb bling = profit!
I used to fix laptop's about 7years ago. Its definitely more of a challenge when it comes to replacing motherboards and other hardware hidden inside. I also used to get alot of MacBook AIR's in the shop. I sent everyone back out with a dual boot Windows setup. Not one has ever came back. And making $300 for each was certainly paying the bills.
On the question of the day. I'd recommend getting the 4th Gen. i5. Run it for about a month and if it doesn't put out the performance your looking for, just upgrade it to 4th Gen. i7. I did that with a i7 i5 3570 and made the jump a month later to the 3770K and Z77 Extreme4. That with an RX480 8GB is a great 1080p high-ultra settings gaming rig. It also has PCIe 3.0 as well as USB 3.0 on board. A Bluetooth chip and WiFi card brought that PC backcto life for a good allrounder. Its still running strong today. My pops is never far away from the PC i gave him. He totally loves it.
Hey Bryan,
I would be wary on this particular model. If you can get working versions of them they are ok. But if you need to add parts like SSD or Ram then those parts are a little more expensive.
The SSD is not your standard m2 connection and the Ram uses a low power variant 1.35.
Earlier and later Latitudes have more standard parts.
Micka
its funny that i snagged a toshiba portege a30-a for $30 usd last sunday from the flea market. what heppened is that i just asked a guy that sells laptops if he has any laptops with problems for sale, so he pulls out the toshiba and begins to tell me that its not accepting any ram that he puts in it, except 1 2gb stick, so i take it apart at home and realize that he was trying to make an ecc ram work in a non ecc motherboard. so yeah i have spare parts and add 4gb of non ecc ram and it works perfectly!
I sell computers for a living but laptops have always been difficult for me. I just don't know enough about them to know what a reasonable price for them would be, and a lot of them have completely dead batteries or no chargers. I just don't feel comfortable selling someone something that could realistically break at any second and I'd have no idea how to fix it. At least with the PCs I sell I can help people out if they have issues with them.
I got a "broken" Dell E6540 workstation for free some time ago, without a charger. I took it for parts, as it had an i7 Haswell quad-core in it. Turned out the only thing broken in it was the memory and the missing boot drive. Put in an SSD I got in a lot for €15, bought a second had charger for it for €30 and put in 8GB RAM I could get for €15. Made a nice quick €200 profit on it ^^. It's a shame though notebooks like don't go for much here. Wonder how much you can get for that E7420 you got, I'd say no more than about 300 AUD but I don't know how the Aussie market is also
It is indeed an i7, but the lapop "u" series processors older that the 8th generation can't compare with even budget laptop processors that are in stores now.
Very true. Thats why you go for the watts, instead of the "marketing name", when deciding on a notebook cpu. People dont get it, that a 45w i5 has more power than a u series crap i7.
Yep, I have an Asus Q550LF with an i7 4500U, it's only a dual core that's been underclocked and undervolted.
@@Squilliam-Fancyson 45w is the sweet spot for laptop cpu's
what are you calling 'budget laptop processor' ?The most budget laptops nowadays got some crappy celerons or pentiums and they are slow as hell even doing the most basic stuff like browsing. This i7 even "u" series will outperform them no problem.
@@Prlz3 I was thinking more of something like the "U" series i3. If we're talking about the Celerons and Pentiums some of them got to the same performance as older i5s and i7s, but most of them are still crappy. On the AMD side of things even a Ryzen 3200u is quite decent for daily tasks.
No repaste and fan cleaning? This is no Tech Yes Lovin' :)
if you want to flip a few on eBay, look for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, as overall they really tend to hold their value for their overall good build quality, however the E series(Edu Series/Educational Series) while good, and I daily a Lenovo Thinkpad X140e(Edu series) don't tend to hold their value as much do to the fact they were made for K-12th grade education, but can be something you could flip as a value PC for a kid with something like Manajro Budgie Linux installed on it, but I would not charge more then $130 USD when I can pick them up on eBay without mods(RAM/SSD upgrades) for $80 -$100 USD from educational surplus liquidators. I'll let you go the conversion rates.
From my own experience some customers compare used gaming laptops with consoles. They want a "gaming laptop" but they don't really know why they want a laptop to do that gaming. Consoles win the price/performance game there due to the knowledge discrepancy. I was selling a Lenovo 6th gen i7 laptop with a 960M and had a really hard time getting more than 350$ (roughly translated) since most people who were interested just wanted to know if they could game on their couch with it.
Thanks for the response my friend!
Tech YES can make anything look beautiful!!!
Hi Bryan!
Why didn't you clean cooler and change termal paste? If needed..
These dell latitude laptops are really nice (pre-2016). I personally owned a E6440 and I have nothing bad to say about it other than the thermal throttling. But I’d say anything after the E5570 isn’t very good (especially the keyboard)
if u wanna have a good flip, get a Thinkpad with MQ or HQ cpu.
damn, this model with 8gb ram, i7 and 128gb ssd cost 216 - 262 USD in my country with win 7 or win 8.1 installed
i7 4600U also have 2 C 4 T only
Umm...the title has a typo, "mkae"
Thank you for the content!
Should have told the guy at the end about a e3 1230v3 which has AVX 2 and i7 2600 does not they cost about the same I'd prefer to have something on 1150 socket instead of 1155 because of usb 3 and higher supported ram speeds and lower power consumption but that's just me. Even though the beast Sandy bridge platform is still chugging along! Love the videos brian your the reason I build and flip pcs keep it up!
They go for around 370-390 euro in the Netherlands. From a refurbished computer seller.
1.You should mention what parts you can upgrade and what you cant.
2.How much ram and storage does the laptop supports.
3.Press the like button.
4.Write what's the rezolution of display in description.
I am not sure if you haven't, but the Asus 4K MG28UQ monitor is a budget gaming 4K and you should do a video on it! (Of course if you are able to. Being on the upside down portion of the Earth may not net the availability)
Some laptops - post 2014 - have nvme 2 sockets. Discovered this after stripping my 17" HP DV 7 Pavillion which had a 'hybrid' boot system which was actually a 20GB Nvme in it.. The case plastic isn't the best in durability...
I just picked up a lenovo p50 for $75, guys keep your eyes peeled for office buildings doing a replacement of their computers. The executives usually have the nicest toys:)
I flipped 4 laptops last month. I just look for 25-35 dollar machine then upgrade with what reasonable and look for 50-75 dollar profit. Maybe I could make more but they go quick and if they only require an hour of my time I say yes.
hello Bryan i buy and sell gaming laptops once in a while for profit..
i m 17 years old
I'd go for the 4th gen for USB 3 and M.2 support if you find a Z97 board.
U could try replacing the screen with that 1080p version
do you reckon you will review the aftershock vapor 15 pro cuz i was gonna import it from aussie to nz and i wanna know your opinion cheers
That laptop is the same as the Maingear Element and the Eluktronics MAG 15 so you should be able to find plenty of reviews from others on it. With that said, I'd love to see a review from Tech YES City about it
@@luciascarlet yea ive seen so many reviews of it but theres nothing like a tyc review
Here in the states, and I happened on a HP Envy Touchsmart 4th gen Core i5 4200U that wasn't booting up. After opening found the battery was swollen and the RAM was dead and the keyboard was no good. Replacement parts come to roughly $100USD (with an upgrade from 4GB to 16GB RAM, 8GB and 16GB were same price!). Threw in a cheap SSD and not sure if I should flip it or keep it, as I do alot of traveling. Computer was given to me not working. Your thoughts?
Whoa if that fetches your asking the laptop market is great there. Around me that would go for $200 CDN or less but laptops are more popular here so the used market is flooded.
More X2689 benchmark please 🤘🤘
Should you use this one Intel cpu or another Intel cpu?
Well. The obvious answer is to choose the one closest to amd ryzen. 😉
not in laptops
@@yotoprules9361 they have ryzen powered laptops now.
@@MrBearyMcBearface yes but they are overpriced and worse than intel alternatives.
@@yotoprules9361 I don't even know how to begin to fact check you. As I find most laptops overpriced anyway and I'm not a laptop guy.
@@MrBearyMcBearface well I'm talking about gaming laptops in particular.
The ryzen 7 3rd gen in laptop is not much faster than the ryzen 5 3rd gen. Both are quad core, and not much cheaper than the Intel equivalent. While on the other side, the i7 8th gen or 9th gen (basically the same) have 2 extra cores (6 cores instead of 4 on both the ryzen 5 and 7) and is much more powerful than the i5 in laptops.
That is why I say ryzen is not good in laptops, at least at the moment. Even the lowered powered ryzen 4th gen laptop chips (the ones with "U" in the name) have more cores making them definitely a viable choice for powerful laptops, and great for the latest games.
My i7 8750h laptop is great at gaming, with the only downside being it's too powerful for almost any laptop to handle, you will most likely encounter power or thermal throttling when the CPU is stressed. My laptop has both and my laptop is considered to be one that runs cool. Because Ryzen is now 7nm this could change the game in 4th gen Ryzen. But we need to wait and see.
Easy flip, at least where im at I flip laptops all the time. Im guessing you could get around 300 US. I think you did well.
You could try sell this laptop with external GPU?
You should chance the thermal pastes and maybe greater ssd and ram for "gaming laptops" .
Laptap market is very healthy as bought a Lenovo Yoga 12 with mid specs an touch screen convertible in great shape for $80 and sol it for $230 an also a Dell E5550 with the rare 5th gen i-7 in it 16gb and 1080 screen - etc... $120 delivered to me! It was to nice, so I kept it.... I wish it had a GPU in it but that is rare for the model so intel 630 graphics it is... Anything #Broadwell is pricey, Especially the broadwell desktop cpu's with the apple eyefinity... Look at this four ore cpu's... the 5575c, etc on ebay.... The reason why my DREAM cpu which is Broadwell and a xeon with 14 cores / 28 threads is still out of reach for price to performance... :(
Did you make a Part 2? I wanna know how much you made on it.
Hey Brian, are you still cool with Scdkeys? I ordered a PlayStation plus key from them a week ago & wanted to know if this long of a wait is normal.
So if you misspell guarantee, does that mean you can technically avoid consumer protection laws in Australia?
nah just facebook doesn't like the word. I made a whole video on it.
My tip would be to apply new thermal paste, and clean the fans!
Yes Man Enter's second hand laptop field, Second hand laptop seller's sweating balls.
Your like the better version of Paula Deen where instead of covering everything in butter you cover everything in multipurpose spray.
What were you spraying to clean the plastics?
Did you wipe the hd and do a clean install of windows? If you didn't then I'd be careful there wasn't any "inappropriate" photos or videos from the previous owner on it.
In my experience selling things like laptops, the market you're shooting for is students. And that can be older students who need the laptop personally, and even young families who have young kids that need to do homework and don't want to go to the library to type and print. I've even sold laptops to young moms whose kids are now in elementary school and they are also going back to finish their college degree. So many people these days don't have actual computers and just phones and tablets, so they need something to get real work done with.
And I've been using an i5 4460 the last few years and recently put in an RX 580 and the i5 is the bottleneck for sure. Before my gtx 780 often was, but the RX 580 can use more CPU to really fly. And when looking for upgrades I've learned 4th gen i7 are way overpriced. My long-term plan to upgrade has been to buy a second 4th gen cheap office system with an i7, swap the CPU and flip it. But even that has proved difficult.
that "core X series processes TM" sounded too real with headphones lol
That power adapter is for Dell docking stations not laptops, the give away is it has a blue led ring, is bigger at 130w, it should be smaller, 90w with a white led ring but otherwise good video, keep it up
Could you do a test on the nvidia «ultra low latency mode» where you compare the differences in input lag in both cpu and gpu bound games. Some people have apparently found that the ultra low latency mode actually increases your input lag when the gpu isnt maxed out or when you are playing a cpu bound game.
Been flipping them for years. Laptops are great fast flips.
well, if you got mx/xm/qm version [before intel change them to HQ, H, HK version] how much you can flip ? cz i7 U series before 8th gen is dual core [M only version too]
what's that solution that you use to get the sticker off so easily? thanks