Oh, I agree that Newegg is legit. I just don't know how I feel about refurbished computers, no matter where they come from. But yes, I've purchased parts from there, and they were good quality.
On 10/7/14, Josh Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > everyone out at lions world in my desktop support class recommended > newegg for computers and parts and things. and since I don't have a job > I have to buy used or refurbished. this laptop here that I'm writing on > is refurbished from blaire technology group. and it works great. well > for my needs it does. I don't have to buy a new computer right away > though because one of my friends is sending me one he no longer uses. > its about two years old. barely even used. its a dell desktop quad core > 8gigs ram 1tb hard drive. I've used laptops for the past 6 years and > they work fine I can't see to play graphically intense games and do > video editing and things. but I did put 4 more gigs of ram in this > laptop and I only go above 2 gigs when running the occasional virtual > machine. > > On 10/7/2014 5:52 PM, john wrote: >> You might want to take a really close look at that before you buy it, and >> make absolutely certain you make a backup of it as soon as you get it. >> That's an amazingly low price for a gaming machine, and I'm finding it >> somewhat hard to believe that its just going to be full of perfectly >> functional and cutting-edge hardware. >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Josh Kennedy" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 2:41 PM >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] gaming computers >> >> yes its refurbished from www.newegg.com >> >> >> On 10/7/2014 10:37 AM, john wrote: >>> 3 ghz? Is that a p4? I find it somewhat unlikely that you would get a >>> modern >>> 3ghz processor alone for $450, let alone the whole machine. Is the >>> machine >>> refurbished/pre-used? >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "Josh Kennedy" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 7:53 AM >>> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >>> Subject: [Audyssey] gaming computers >>> >>> hi >>> >>> I found great gaming computers at a good price at newegg.com . for >>> around $450 you can get a desktop with >>> quad core 3.0 or so ghz processor >>> 1tb hard drive >>> at least 8gigs of ram >>> windows7 64bit. >>> >>> But I imagine this is overkill for what we as blind people need. But I'm >>> thinking of getting one just so I can better run virtual machines. maybe >>> for christmas. They sound like really fast powerful computers though, >>> for games or audio and music and video editing. 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