@@fungalwater3175 I plan to save up my money over the years and get by on my current VivoBook and Redmi Note 7 which have been doing great for the two years i've had them. Hopefully by the next 5 years I have invested enough cash that I can go and upgrade to a new next-gen laptop and phone, since I've pretty much never owned a real gaming laptop or flagship phone.
Earlier this year, I had an HP laptop that stopped working due to a broken WiFi cable, then I had purchased a used HP Elitebook 840. Prior to purchasing, I had checked the item for any physical damages, no problems to report and the operation at boot up, all good as well. The hard drive was at 320 gigs and the memory was 4 gigs. Updated the hard drive to 1TB SSD and the ram to 16. Battery life is good but I plan to buy another for better life operation. Overall, the purchase was good since I had traded in my old laptop for $55.00 and this for $120.00 (originally $175).
Checklist - Upgradability - original parts - ram, wifi card, SSD etc - dead pixels - battery life - functionality of keys - Wifi - speakers/sound - Any warranty? - activated windows (if applicable) - run performance test software
try use ssd if u haven tried one. if u become allergic to hdd, make sure your future laptop has ability to use ssd. like remove the dvd-rom an swap it with storage drive
Great video, but as the ironic guy said a little more down on the comments, buying off eBay isn't actually bad. You don't get to try the laptop before buying it, but you still have eBay's and eventually PayPal's coverage. Those are actually really important!
3:05 Yeah, why have the opportunity to return the broken laptop u bought on Ebay in 30 days (FOR ANY PRODUCT, EVEN IF SELLER DOESN'T ACCEPT RETURNS) if you can just buy a laptop off craigslist, that breaks in a week, and ull have no way of returning it. Great advice!
I'm so sad that your amazing channel is only at 9k subs And you don't get enough views I will totally support you and i really love your video Keep doing them ❤
This is painfully true, the DM4 I own has treated me well, but I stopped using it eventually as I got better laptops, currently enjoying an X220. However every other HP I've owned is absolute trash, like most companies, HP's consumer grade is trash, their buisness grade series are decent though.
Don't You hate it when mf are trying to sell their 5 year old gaming laptop with a broken screen, no charger, and missing keys for the price they bought it for
Ez. Just buy late old thinpads with good upgradability options. If you can ask the seller to check the battery wear level which is a must unless you're planning on buying new battery for the laptop and if there is no info about battery wear level just approximate the used laptop by year so 5% - 9% per year * number of year from the current date
I hate to be the one too add this but if plan on getting a used laptop you should write 0’s to the hard drive and reinstall the OS the last owner could have collected illegal images
Don't buy the x1 carbon (second gen) that is shown in this video! The typing experience will be really horrible and the wifi card will fail after some time. Sure, this x1 carbon has a touchbar like the MacBook Pro 2016 but it's not really worth it for the longer run. I would recommend the third or fourth gen X1 Carbon or a ThinkPad T440p with i5 4300, IPS Display and Nvidia GPU. This laptop also allows you to use three SSDs. One SSD will be a mSATA one (I think), the second SSD will be a SATA SSD that can be in the same place where the Mainboard is and the third SSD will be another SATA one but this SSD will make you sacrifice 8$ for a DVD HDD Caddy and your DVD drive will have to be removed. Overall, I did similar thing with a 240gb mSATA SSD for the OS and both of the SATA SSDs have 500gb of storage.
I snagged one for college but without the GT730M, but I'm willing to sacrifice that because I don't game on my laptops, and less parts, the less that will break.
I went the HP Zbook route and I'm now rocking a similar hw configuration. 250GB SSD and 2TB HDD sitting on a caddy. The main HDD bay sits empty for now. I've been thinking of fitting another SSD there for heavy games like GTA V.
Sorry. Disagree with you about both eBay and Craigslist. Had multiple experience with both. Most sellers are flexible about haggling on the former and I always felt like the latter was Midnight Auto Sales... YMMV...
Strongly disagree with #3. As a Thinkpad enthusiast, eBay is my primary market search engine and immediate go-to for older models. The "Auction/Buy It Now/Make an Offer" listing options provide sellers with the ability to give their customers opportunities to bargain with them. The customer feedback systems allow consumers to easily shop around for trusted sellers and ignore sellers with glaring, negative feedback. I think that your argument might be more useful for more recent laptops.
2:51 I find funny you saying Ebay is expensive, but my local marketplace are selling old laptops with no gpu for more than what ebay has for a laptop with a gpu...
idk what is a big deal to buy an laptop. i have mine for 10 years now and it works perfectly. ofcourse battery is almost dead. But anyways now i want just more powerfull laptop.
I buyed second hand laptop and its asus, but I think the built in programs like sonicmaster and finger print driver are deleted can you help me to reinstall that?
Can you recommend me, used laptop. Budget ranging between $ 340-&460. My purpose are, simple editing, autocad, slight game etc. Can you recommend the best fit used laptop range between $340-460? New subscriber from Philippines thankyou ❤️😇
Some of them also have dreamcolor displays, which is great! I was eyeing the 8570w really hard (sold for little over 300 at the time) but ended up going for a Zbook 15 G1. Quite the workhorse. Used workstations are great value if you dont mind mediocre battery life.
I want to buy a gaming hp pavilion gaming, the guy says it only had office usage and the pad has some issues but everything else is fine. I'm not sure yet about it but it's a good price
Honestly, video editing might be more demanding than Minecraft depending on the type of editing. You could probably find one to run Minecraft, but it might be lacking in the rendering and whatnot for video editing so I would look into that and check what hardware is recommended for the type of editing you’re doing
Decent list if you're buying like used gaming laptop. Other than that, just find reputable lease computer business were used business models, yes meaning those +1500€ models are sent back after lease time and they're serviced and sold as used machines. They might even replace keyboards or displays to completely new ones depending on business. Good ones always state well machine state and you can just send machine back as they have warranty. Just got X250 about 1/8 of original price and year warranty + 3 months for batteries. Arrived very well boxed in so big bubblewrap that it would've been impossible for machine to destroy during shipping. Also I found two very, very small indications on machine that it was used. On even a good glance it looked completely new.
Tip: Don't let your mum pick. Just don't
Why
@@michaeltsang548 She'll get you a GeoBook 3 for around £350. I'll just tell you now it's as low as low end gets.
@@fungalwater3175 yeah, she would not spend lot of money, thats why i got a job now and i buy whatever i like
@@michaeltsang548 Good on you for finally reaching freedom! I haven't gotten that privalige yet.
@@fungalwater3175 I plan to save up my money over the years and get by on my current VivoBook and Redmi Note 7 which have been doing great for the two years i've had them. Hopefully by the next 5 years I have invested enough cash that I can go and upgrade to a new next-gen laptop and phone, since I've pretty much never owned a real gaming laptop or flagship phone.
Earlier this year, I had an HP laptop that stopped working due to a broken WiFi cable, then I had purchased a used HP Elitebook 840. Prior to purchasing, I had checked the item for any physical damages, no problems to report and the operation at boot up, all good as well. The hard drive was at 320 gigs and the memory was 4 gigs. Updated the hard drive to 1TB SSD and the ram to 16. Battery life is good but I plan to buy another for better life operation. Overall, the purchase was good since I had traded in my old laptop for $55.00 and this for $120.00 (originally $175).
I heard that HP is bad brand for laptops overall.
idk why do you think so they are one of the best you can look it up@@bamf6603
It is one of the most useful videos I've seen in the last couple of months. Thanks a lot
Checklist
- Upgradability
- original parts - ram, wifi card, SSD etc
- dead pixels
- battery life
- functionality of keys
- Wifi
- speakers/sound
- Any warranty?
- activated windows (if applicable)
- run performance test software
Can you recommend a performance test software and how to use it?
@@ahmedrahim2500 you found one?
I buy cheap computers and laptops u can always upgrade the ram and or storage in a laptop so long as it's not sadered in
I needed this video when I bought a laptop 7 years ago, now I am buying my second laptop and learned this on my own already, still great video 👍
try use ssd if u haven tried one. if u become allergic to hdd, make sure your future laptop has ability to use ssd. like remove the dvd-rom an swap it with storage drive
Great tips! I should have tested sound on my used laptop. Would have saved me a huge headache!
Thanks Brett. Have you been invited to check out the Note 10 yet?
@@MarkSpurrell Yes I did. 😀
Never EVER get a used laptop without testing the speakers.
@@TechWithBrett here's a tylenol-or-aspirin for you :-) (for your headache :-) ).
P.S. yes i know you were being metaphorical :-)
Great video, but as the ironic guy said a little more down on the comments, buying off eBay isn't actually bad. You don't get to try the laptop before buying it, but you still have eBay's and eventually PayPal's coverage. Those are actually really important!
Funny, I just got scammed on ebay back in early January. Had to call paypal 11 times. Still don't have my money back yet.
@@MarkSpurrell Lmao. ebay is too safe
@BlckHsh yeah, its too safe for scammers
3:05 Yeah, why have the opportunity to return the broken laptop u bought on Ebay in 30 days (FOR ANY PRODUCT, EVEN IF SELLER DOESN'T ACCEPT RETURNS) if you can just buy a laptop off craigslist, that breaks in a week, and ull have no way of returning it. Great advice!
Paypal has a 6 month return policy if you can’t refund through eBay.
This video facilates to choose which laptop will I buy. It's fantastic. I appreciate it.
I can’t stress enough how important common sense is.
@Scottie1shot:
But unfortunately Common-Sense is-not that common :'(
I'm so sad that your amazing channel is only at 9k subs
And you don't get enough views
I will totally support you and i really love your video
Keep doing them ❤
54k now
@@MegaLilei yah he's done well last year
128k now
Never get the Pavilion HP laptop if you want it to last longer than maybe a month, because these are usually just for a temporary use.
This is painfully true, the DM4 I own has treated me well, but I stopped using it eventually as I got better laptops, currently enjoying an X220. However every other HP I've owned is absolute trash, like most companies, HP's consumer grade is trash, their buisness grade series are decent though.
I got a Hp G60 from ebay and it works great, I had it for 3 winters and it's 11 years old and I gave it to my friend, not all hp computers are trash
@Gee Smith any laptop. Any
@@TheVikingProgrammer omg they were about 2000 NZ dollars worth of ABSOLUTE GARBAGE
lol i got a hp convertible when i was 8 years old and the screen was in 480p
Thank you for the tips!❤️
Don't You hate it when mf are trying to sell their 5 year old gaming laptop with a broken screen, no charger, and missing keys for the price they bought it for
I love this because I was going to buy a used one!!!
Same
5:40 Im buying a 2018 xps 15 for 460$..... then I realise this video is 3 years old lmao
I want a laptop for work/studying. And to game sometimes with it at the same time.
thank you! Your tips is an eye opener. 💯
Ez. Just buy late old thinpads with good upgradability options. If you can ask the seller to check the battery wear level which is a must unless you're planning on buying new battery for the laptop and if there is no info about battery wear level just approximate the used laptop by year so 5% - 9% per year * number of year from the current date
I hate to be the one too add this but if plan on getting a used laptop you should write 0’s to the hard drive and reinstall the OS
the last owner could have collected illegal images
Loved your video. Very informative and helpful. Earned yourself a subscriber ✔️
Don't buy the x1 carbon (second gen) that is shown in this video!
The typing experience will be really horrible and the wifi card will fail after some time.
Sure, this x1 carbon has a touchbar like the MacBook Pro 2016 but it's not really worth it for the longer run.
I would recommend the third or fourth gen X1 Carbon or a ThinkPad T440p with i5 4300, IPS Display and Nvidia GPU.
This laptop also allows you to use three SSDs.
One SSD will be a mSATA one (I think), the second SSD will be a SATA SSD that can be in the same place where the Mainboard is and the third SSD will be another SATA one but this SSD will make you sacrifice 8$ for a DVD HDD Caddy and your DVD drive will have to be removed.
Overall, I did similar thing with a 240gb mSATA SSD for the OS and both of the SATA SSDs have 500gb of storage.
I snagged one for college but without the GT730M, but I'm willing to sacrifice that because I don't game on my laptops, and less parts, the less that will break.
I went the HP Zbook route and I'm now rocking a similar hw configuration. 250GB SSD and 2TB HDD sitting on a caddy. The main HDD bay sits empty for now. I've been thinking of fitting another SSD there for heavy games like GTA V.
Sorry. Disagree with you about both eBay and Craigslist. Had multiple experience with both. Most sellers are flexible about haggling on the former and I always felt like the latter was Midnight Auto Sales... YMMV...
Can you re-make the video and with some examples of laptop prices what we can expect
Thanks for the tips 💪 Very useful
Which performance test software do u suggest?
Please do you know where i can get used/non tested laptop, computer parts and playstatio in the Uk ( bulk purchase)
Very practical advises. Subscribed.
Red screen dead pixel test, good idea!!
Great job 👍 More people should be calm and nicely upfront.
Okay now what do you do afterwords how do you reset everything
"Always haggle"
Seller: "Final Price" on the page
Me: 💀
Strongly disagree with #3. As a Thinkpad enthusiast, eBay is my primary market search engine and immediate go-to for older models. The "Auction/Buy It Now/Make an Offer" listing options provide sellers with the ability to give their customers opportunities to bargain with them. The customer feedback systems allow consumers to easily shop around for trusted sellers and ignore sellers with glaring, negative feedback. I think that your argument might be more useful for more recent laptops.
As a local country laptop enthusiast, I agree since I do have a 2021 Thinkpad with a 11th gen.
Ask for the bill not the box people throw boxes but keep bills for warranty
Thanks for the good info.
Cette vidéo est très bien
I gave you a thumbs up before the end of the video you really touched my souL
Good
Awesome video!
Thanks mate , very useful
Youre video is so good ... i wish you to become popular... you're doing great ... keep it up
Really helpful
Thanks
2:51 I find funny you saying Ebay is expensive, but my local marketplace are selling old laptops with no gpu for more than what ebay has for a laptop with a gpu...
Wow great oppounity
Any tutorial to check if it has trackers or anything? I have reseted the laptop but I'm still skeptical
Do you haggle on someone who have already a crazy deal
Always try.
I bought a 290$ i5 generation 1235U (12th gen) used
what to check when buying used Samsung QLED 15.6" display laptop?
That i7 sticker got me
Hey bro quick question my nose is crooked like yours, do you need a different dual pd for every frame?
idk what is a big deal to buy an laptop. i have mine for 10 years now and it works perfectly. ofcourse battery is almost dead. But anyways now i want just more powerfull laptop.
Thank you!
I buyed second hand laptop and its asus, but I think the built in programs like sonicmaster and finger print driver are deleted can you help me to reinstall that?
Please make a lava lamp review
How many times did you say that😂
@@DynastyBedo not enough
@@jesba9708 yep😢
I often have the habit of buying old but still new laptop.
Ebay is the way to go u don't always have to buy
Now this is a resource I'd like to share with people. If only my friends spoke english tho...
Good tips
Can you recommend me, used laptop. Budget ranging between $ 340-&460. My purpose are, simple editing, autocad, slight game etc. Can you recommend the best fit used laptop range between $340-460? New subscriber from Philippines thankyou ❤️😇
hp 8770 ws are onl;y 230 bucks on ebay and have upgradable gpus
Some of them also have dreamcolor displays, which is great! I was eyeing the 8570w really hard (sold for little over 300 at the time) but ended up going for a Zbook 15 G1. Quite the workhorse.
Used workstations are great value if you dont mind mediocre battery life.
I want to buy a gaming hp pavilion gaming, the guy says it only had office usage and the pad has some issues but everything else is fine. I'm not sure yet about it but it's a good price
Did you get it?
I’m actually looking to sell an Alienware laptop to get a desktop instead
Jacob Henry ayo how much
Me too
Crap I bought a gaming laptop off of eBay now I am sacred lol
How did it turn out?
Mate what do you think about the thinkpad x1 carbon core i5 5th gen?
which benchmark website u used?
I need a laptop for travel and video editing. And minecraft:P... little gaming if i have time ;) is this possible for 500 or less???
Honestly, video editing might be more demanding than Minecraft depending on the type of editing. You could probably find one to run Minecraft, but it might be lacking in the rendering and whatnot for video editing so I would look into that and check what hardware is recommended for the type of editing you’re doing
What do you think about a used lenovo y700
Very Talented UA-camr And Awesome Video
Will you recommend hp pavilion 15 gaming laptop with Intel core i5 CPU , 9th generation for a hacker ?
Why u gotta be like that
Buy New unless comes with Warranty
I know I’m a year late but what would you recommend for forza horizon 4
Hi! (also to anyone who can read this) Do you think is it worth it to buy a used Dell (G3 15 3579) laptop? 😊
NO
@@toyoscio why sir I just bought huhu
@@angelajoynortega7117 how's it so far?
good video
I want to see old laptop
Decent list if you're buying like used gaming laptop. Other than that, just find reputable lease computer business were used business models, yes meaning those +1500€ models are sent back after lease time and they're serviced and sold as used machines. They might even replace keyboards or displays to completely new ones depending on business. Good ones always state well machine state and you can just send machine back as they have warranty. Just got X250 about 1/8 of original price and year warranty + 3 months for batteries. Arrived very well boxed in so big bubblewrap that it would've been impossible for machine to destroy during shipping. Also I found two very, very small indications on machine that it was used. On even a good glance it looked completely new.
can you give an example of such bussinesses?
@@REplayer001 I highly doubt you live in Finland? You should maybe ask from forums that have local tech people? Good old Google is your friend too.
Nice 👍 video
Eluktronics is selling used laptops does anyone know anything about that
They are good. Very good company
That's nice
Just bought a acer Helios 8. I5, gtx 1050ti, 16gb. £480 bar. Good deal and will it play modern games?
I'n the 2.000 liker!
So I bought a acer aspire e15
For 200€
👍🏽
Please where can I buy used laptops in Bulk to export to Africa
Is there like a software where I can check the PCs health?
you used user benchmark to show which cpu is better...
really?
Why? What's wrong with it? I'm using it and it's great IMO.