Does Newegg give any warrantees with their refurbs?
The i5 is a good processor, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 8GB GDDR7 is about 1 1/2 times faster than the RTX 4060/Arc B580, which was pretty decent. The problem with limited hard drive space is to simply get an external hard drive. You can do custom installs in which you can direct the installation to the external drive. I think it’s a decent deal.
My finger is hovering over the Check-Out button. I’m considering throwing in that extra hard drive too, but I may hold off on that as it really kind of blows my budget. Maybe for my birthday at the end of the summer.
I appreciated all the good info. I knew the Teeming Masses wouldn’t let me down.
A laptop is a secondary computer for me. I go to brick-and-mortar stores, in case there are problems, and buy something very cheap. Never a problem though.
Here are 4 refurbished gaming pcs with 7th and 8th generation I7 processors in your price range. Laptops and Notebooks Computers
IMHO you really don’t want a gaming machine with GTX10xx graphics in 2026. They were released 10 years ago. The reason those machines have i7 processors is because that’s the only way you can get an old graphics card to run. Those machines are a great value for someone who needs to do heavy compute and light graphics. Definitely not recommended for gaming.
I got my new laptop in today, which is nice. Everything is humming along nicely so far … except, my external drive. When I plugged it in it came up with errors - please scan and repair, but that didn’t work. Now, my older external drive, which gave me the same error when I originally tried to plug it into this older laptop, was still errored, but I formatted it and it was recognized. I tried to plug my newer external drive back into the laptop I’ve been using and error again. I’ve been trying to scan and repair it for about a half hour now and I don’t think it’s working.
Long and short … looks like I lost everything that was on those drives. Not big losses, mostly game installs. Some pictures and videos that I think I managed to save on a thumb drive (or whatever we’re calling them these days) but I’m baffled about those external drive errors. The only thing I can think is that the operating systems were different, between the three different laptops they’ve been plugged into that cause some conflicts – ??
Anyhoo, nice to have a new computer. I’m loading up a NBA2K23 right now to see how smooth it plays.
May I ask which company you purchased from? I may want to do the same. My current laptop is a Dell and I’m thinking of getting a similar model, but without Windows installed. All the bad things I’m reading about Windows 11 have me about ready to take the plunge into Linux.
Update - I was able to repair the newest external drive I was using. There is literally nothing important on it after all, just game installs, but I guess I got that going for me too. Plus, 2T worth of external storage at my disposal now.
What did you to make that happen? Or did ‘scan and repair’ finally complete?
You know, a magnifying glass here, a fridge magnet there, and before long you have your own data recovery company…
Scan and repair finally finished. Which leads me to believe I may have been able to save that other drive before formatting it, but, ya know … whaddayagonnado?
Like everybody else, I would never trust some rando Amazon reseller for a refurb.
The only difference between buying a brand new Mac or one from Apple’s refurb store is that the refurb is going to be about 10-15 percent less expensive and come in a plain box.
It’s a local company here in the frozen north of the old world - not of much use to you, I boldly presume.