I found one refurbished laptop. Lenovo Thinkpad T480s i5 8th Gen. Is it good? Priced around RM1.8k. Another one is Lenovo Thinkpad 13 i5 7th Gen around RM1.4k. Which one better?

Also, better Lenovo or Dell? Thanks

Only buy refurbished from Apple

i got mine here
https://www.facebook.com/rentwisemy/

Bought on carousell, took bus to seller location to COD

https://www.carousell.sg/p/lenovo-thinkpad-...&t-tap_index=15

Compare the spec. Latest gen doesn't mean better. Although not a fair comparisom but my i5 gen system still much faster than laptop with i5 gen8 cpu

Also, quick question should I consider a refurbished Macbook by 3rd party? If yes, what year should be the min? Thanks

Tq!

RM1800 / 560 sing a lot of choices in this bracket

Depends on criteria which one more important.
Light Weight, powerful machine, any special screens (1440/ 400 or 500 nits) cost more.. also touchscreen/backlit kb, and whether u need truckload of RAM (T480/490 better) or u ok with one soldered (T480S/490S)





If you want a newish machine that's not too heavy
T490 can get $660 sing
https://www.carousell.sg/p/lenovo-thinkpad-...e&t-tap_index=0

I'm primarily born and bred Thinkpad as I love the keyboard on thinkpads..i have dell latitude from work didn't like it

This post has been edited by ceo684: Jul 10 2022, 12:08 PM

My IT dept likes to throw out laptops that are out of warranty so i take them

bought thinkpad T450 from lazada years ago. was a bit skeptical at first. cukur, everything turned out to be ok.

Why? There are a lot of discounts for new laptop in lazada/shopee with 2 years warranty somemore. Just wait for the 8.8 sales if you missed the 7.7 sales.

My T480 also not bad I guess. It's configurable battery so if want portable, 1.49kg or so just unplug the battery.
With the internal battery it can manage 2hrs; plus external one pretty much all day.

Quite good platform.. at least things can be upgraded all the way to 32GB (my X280 cute and smol but stuck with 8GB ram which is a problem)

I didn't know T480 has internal battery!

if cheap i buy

make sure it has warranty.

sometimes my company also sell off cheap laptop, x1 carbon 8th gen bought new 9k with 3 year premier support, we sold it off at 4k after 6 month.

Yes as many of them are ex lease or could be a manufacturer’s or distributor’s roadshow or media units.

When buying it’s important to buy from the right seller.

Refurbished by who is the big question to ask.

Got a 3-cell internal;
the removable speedhump [6 cell] weighs a ton but really last 6-7hrs easily lol

This post has been edited by ceo684: Jul 10 2022, 10:43 PM


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This is good! Ah wished i bought it 🤦‍♂️

it's 2022, still got companies rely work on physical performance? now all VM d,

just use thin client and everything cloud performance in VM, 16/32 threads, with 16/32GRam. or more if they subs higher package.

noneed worry of any antivirus/malware, if infected also, they wiped out your profile.



This post has been edited by shadowglow: Jul 10 2022, 10:45 PM

It's the same buying 2nd hand anything.
Your experience might not be the same as others.
Some might even come with spyware.