Dell Latitude 14.1" Intel Core i5 Laptop Price: $249.99 Shipping Options:: $5 Standard Shipping Estimates: Ships in 3-5 business days. (Wednesday, Mar 11 to Monday, Mar 16) + transit Condition: Refurbished
I work on these and I can tell you they are put together well. Normally repairs are needed due to “operator error”, i.e. broken screens, something spilled in unit, dropped. I have done a few repairs for component failure, but they are minimal. A well built, well designed, rugged laptop.
Excellent price! You usually end up spending a tad more on the Dell Auction site to get one of these for that low of a price (but can often get the next model up too, or this same model with ALL the specs that aren’t in this one).
As someone above stated, (and I also work on these too at work) these things are tanks. Put an SSD in it and it will last you many many years.
If you get one, make sure to pop the bottom off, and dust it out good, many refurb places don’t dust the insides properly.
I bought a similar refurbished laptop (E64000) from Dell Financial Services on eBAy two years ago.
It came with an already used up battery.
Not a big deal for me as I planned to only use it plugged in.
Most annoying is that every time I boot up, I must click a box that says “the battery is approaching the end of its useful life and you should consider buying a new one.”
This computer should be more than adequate for minecraft. I have another model latitude with the same processor/onboard video and it is surprisingly powerful. I am able to play games smoothly that are more resource intensive than minecraft.
This should also be eligible for a windows 10 upgrade when they release it in the next few months.
Thinking of getting this to replace my aging 6 year old Dell laptop. The most resource-intensive stuff I do on my current laptop is photo editing (CS5) and basic video editing (usually Windows Movie Maker) for my dance team. Being able to view 1080p video at full screen would be nice too (as my current laptop is incapable of this, either streaming or on the hard drive.) Would this machine be able to handle that?
Mine has the Web cam in it… Same model number… Bought elsewhere though… thought I’d share since I saw a comment saying no webcam, no USB 3.0 (Which is part of mine as well) but it is true,… no blue tooth.