[GTALUG] cheap as dirt old notebooks

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 11:31:26PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> Dell Refurbished is an arm of Dell Canada that sells off-lease computers.
> 
> They are having a sale right now: 25% off all systems with a coupon (shown 
> on this page):
> <https://www.dellrefurbished.ca/hot-deals?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&nocache=1&utm_campaign=cj_affiliate_sale&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=cj&utm_content=749547&utm_term=11065719&cjevent=f6833b787c5f11ef80cd00e50a82b839&publisher=>
> 
> Note: shipping is extra.
> 
> The Dell Latitude 3310 looks a little tasty: 
> <https://www.dellrefurbished.ca/item/dell-latitude-3310-no-os-000004/dell-latitude-3310-no-os/1.html>
> 
> - $179 - 25% + shipping + tax (cheap as a Raspberry Pi 5 system)
> - OK CPU i5-8265U
> - Latitude line is a business line, so should be well made

Certainly the ones I used about 10 years ago were far from well built.
The keyboard and touchpad and trackpoint were essentially unusable, hence
the standard event of people heading to a meating with their laptop,
and a wired mouse and keyboard to connect to it.

The ones these days do seem a lot better than that fortunately.

-- 
Len Sorensen