Why does this seem too cheap? Or is this just a great deal

Student Laptops
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Only 425$ and Seller says its in amazing condition

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oh hey those were new for 600ish a bit ago someone made a really similar post

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Be careful. Can’t say outright, but it does look strange.

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Heath said:
Be careful. Can’t say outright, but it does look strange.

Maybe so - but the buyer rating is really high for eBay. I’d say it’s worth a shot as eBay has pretty good buyer protection.

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@Teo
That’s a good observation that I didn’t make.

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@Teo
Really high for eBay??? What? The majority of big sellers are 99.2%+ positive feedback…

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The are of course a couple downside of this laptop.

  1. OLED tends to get damaged easier than LCD. You will never know if this laptop is a show device and the screen has been on for many hours.

  2. OLED+Intel H series is a recipe for short battery life.

I guess the first one is more dominant. Anyway, I think you should get a new laptop if you can already pay more than $400.

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@Tatum
thought oled was more power efficient due to it being able to turn off pixels when images were black

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Voss said:
@Tatum
thought oled was more power efficient due to it being able to turn off pixels when images were black

for $400 beggars can’t be choosers. I think you will like it if that’s what you can afford.

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There are a lot of these sellers on ebay and I think the problem right now is the price difference isn’t much. Like you’ll find deals like yours easily from $400-600 with 3060GPUs which has pushed the price of iGPUs down, especially with the new line of Ryzens. I’m hoping to snipe a MX570 laptop.

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@Micah
where are you finding good laptops with gpus for 400$ :sob:

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Voss said:
@Micah
where are you finding good laptops with gpus for 400$ :sob:

Just do some search combing and waiting - on ebay right now tons of 3050 laptops at around the $450 depending 10th-12th gen CPU. 3060 are around the $500ish mark. Lots of 4050 in the $500+ range. [I just bought a broken screen HP G9 640 with a 1255u for $130 from this same seller - he always has decent deals IMO]

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I think it’s a great deal. At 98% positive for over 20k sales I’d say it’s legit. I would message the seller and ask if there is any oled burn in.

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strange as hell. how is it so cheap?

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Iris XE graphics is not that bad especially on office laptops like this. I have a similar one HP Elitebook 840 G8 and most of the time I’m using it as a WFH computer and I tried running PCSX2 and I can play in x2 Resolution without any lags.

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Well in terms of process it’s 12th gen and it seems like a decent machine for the price. At least to me seems fine and look at the seller; seems legit to me.

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What do you guys do with these? Seems pretty useless without a gpu.

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River said:
What do you guys do with these? Seems pretty useless without a gpu.

Work?

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River said:
What do you guys do with these? Seems pretty useless without a gpu.

For a ton of people’s use-cases a GPU does not matter. I personally have no real use for a dedicated GPU on my everyday laptop hence why I was fine going with the new Snapdragon Elite Surface. If I want to game, I’ll just use my desktop at home. Battery life and portability are way more important for what I want out of my laptop.

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River said:
What do you guys do with these? Seems pretty useless without a gpu.

Most people don’t use computers for gaming.