Buying a Secondhand Computer

[Hurling Fan]

Hi All

I work for a small charity that badly needs a new office computer but funds are low. It is currently using a 12 year old Dell that is getting slower and slower by the day. Mainly used for email, internet, word, excel and photo storage. Nothing too hectic really.

Was thinking of looking at getting a secondhand computer for the office and was wondering if anyone could give me some guidelines as to whats best avoided and what is the minimum necessary. For example, a colleague thinks secondhand laptops are best avoided.

I'm not a computer whizz kid so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Latrade]

first question is what's your budget?

 

[Hurling Fan]

Haven't really asked that so I'd say if they're forced into buying a new one the budget would be about €600 including VAT as not registered for VAT. Would obviously prefer to spend money on something else so if they could get a decent secondhand one for about €200 they would be happy.

 

[Ceist Beag]

I recently bought a refurbished desktop pc from [broken link removed] and must say I'm very happy with it - came in (without monitor it must be said) at around €180.

 

[burmo]

Bought many computers from these guys: http://www.itcsales.co.uk/ Comes with Windows Licenses


Wouldn't touch secondhand laptops...

This is more than you would need (Add an extra 1GB of ram):
http://www.itcsales.co.uk/acatalog/Refurbished_Open_Box_Systems.html

Dell Optiplex 745 DT Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1GB 80GB HDD DVD XP Pro 6 Months RTB Warranty 132 euro including VAT

 

[poxon]

If you know someone with good it knowledge who will help you with finding good one you can get a good pc from adverts.ie for 50-100 euro.