On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 04:05:48PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Offer ends today. > > It is interesting if it is something you want. > > - refurbished. This is probably off-lease (the product is quite old). > Some folks have had bad experiences with refurbished products sold > through NewEgg.ca. > > + i7 processor > > - i7 3770s (four generations back). The "s" means lower power and > lower speed (but not laptop level) -- probably a good tradeoff.
Well I don't think a 65W versus 77W is that much low power, and 3.1GHz versus 3.4GHz on the regular 3770 isn't that different. > - unspecified video resolution. Probably lower than I'd like. > Probably 1600 x 900. No idea if it is IPS. It might be a > touch-screen (but I think that they would have mentioned that). I don't think they would have put IPS in that thing. Even a lot of the high end thinkpads didn't get IPS panels at that time (grumble grumble grumble). > - unspecified connectivity. Does it have USB 3? Does it have HDMI? > Probably: USB 2-only, gigabit ethernet, DisplayPort, stereo in and > out. Displayport they have. Microphone and headphone yes. USB 2.0 (2 on front, 4 on back it appears). Gigabit ethernet (crappy RTL8111, but it's there). Displayport is almost certainly DP+ meaning passive adapters to HDMI and others are easy and cheap. > - doesn't say who did the refurbishment. 1 year warranty is > apparently included (good!) but then they want to charge you an > additional $40 for a one year "hassle free replacement" warranty. > Does that mean that the included warranty includes hassles? > > - There is no indication of who provides the default warranty (there > are indications that it isn't NewEgg). > > - don't forget to add the $15 shipping. > > - There is no indication what the exact model is. There are lots of > models of the M72z. Here's a list of the most popular variants: > <http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/withdraw/M72z.pdf> Yes that info would help a lot. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
