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Used laptops are such a good deal that you could something high quality in excellent condition for so little that I almost can't justify buying something like t
by winter_blue 4mo ago
Used laptops are such a good deal that you could something high quality in excellent condition for so little that I almost can't justify buying something like this. Like used Dell XPS laptops are ridiculously cheap and they're amazing for the used price.
Or really buy any laptop rated highly by Dave2D or other reviewers that's 4 to 5 years old.
- kopirgan 4mo agoAbsolutely. Any 2-3 gen old ThinkPad or Elitebook will outlast this and perform lot better. I bought a tablet from this brand few years back. Screen edges were non responsive to touch within months.
- teravor 4mo agomy chuwi tablet had the eMMC suddenly die, it disappeared from the point of view of any software, kernel or uefi. the brand is trash.
- antonkochubey 4mo agoIf it was running Windows - no wonder, Windows is horrible at constantly writing … something to disk, and eMMC's are not high endurance devices. The flash itself had nothing to do with Chuwi and was most likely manufactured by either SanDisk or Kingston, it would have failed likewise in ASUS/Lenovo/whoever else made those crap Intel Atom + 4 GB RAM + 64 GB eMMC devices.
- teravor 4mo agoit was running linux and it died within the first few months of barely any use. i don't know what vendor the eMMC came from but they chose it.
- vachina 4mo agoWhat decent secondhand thing can you find at $350. It is being thrown away in the first place for a reason.
- dnlzro 4mo agoI'm starting to see 2020 M1 MacBooks CA$350 on Facebook Marketplace. That's the device I'm using to type this out. It still lasts all day, and it's still the only computer I use.
- vachina 4mo agoThe fact that it’s listed is meaningless. You need to ask the seller what’s wrong with it.
- dnlzro 4mo agoWhy are you assuming there's something wrong with it? I'm not pointing to outliers that are only cheap because they're broken. The average market price for an M1 MacBook in my area is around $350.
- dghlsakjg 4mo agoI just searched my area. There were plenty listed as having no issues at that price point. eBay has similar deals. No reason to think that $350 isn’t the market price.
- happymellon 4mo agoI'm seeing a lot of M1 Macbook Airs around £200-250, and Pros in the £300-350 range. What's wrong with them? The M1 was popular and now people selling them are competing against a lot of other people selling them which suppresses the price. Like it or not, Macs are mainstream and therefore aren't going hold a "magic" high price.
- pdhborges 4mo agoCould be boot locked to the original owner Apple account.
- djfergus 4mo agoThis laptop has a 10” screen, weighs 900 grams and runs an efficient N100 cpu. Different category to a 15” 2kg cheap 5 year old dell.
- winrid 4mo agoA used x1 carbon is a better deal, faster, and weighs about the same with a bigger screen.
- derefr 4mo ago"Bigger screen" (i.e. being bigger on the length/width dimension) is a bad thing in this discussion. Some people want a programming/writing laptop that fits in a handbag, so that they don't have to decide to bring it, but can just leave it in their bag the way many people do with an iPad.
- winrid 4mo agoI guess. 14" is about as small as I can use personally, that already hurts my hands
- bee_rider 4mo agoWith laptop sized screens, I’m always tempted to try to have two windows side by side. 10 inch netbooks effectively dissuade that bit of folly.
- bergie 4mo agoAbsolutely. The 11" MacBook Air was the best laptop Apple ever made.
- stefanfisk 4mo agoI yearn for an updated version of the 12” MacBook with modern specs and keyboard. The 13” Air is way too large to be the smallest MacBook ;_;
- makeitdouble 4mo agoBattery can be an issue though. In particular, replacement batteries can be a PITA to get if the model gets discontinued or parts are only available through corporate channels.
- swyx 4mo agoi like how Dave2D came from a nobody to the top cited reviewer here