pdfangus":1crsaqm4 said:
So the concensus that I am reading here is that the refurbished models are pretty reliable and that Vista is crap?
I have XP on our system at work and get along very well with it but I have been shopping for a cheap laptop for personal use and have shied away from the refurbished stuff.
I notice that all replies centered around gateway and dell.
What about toshiba and acer and sony and leveno etc?
Toshiba uses their own little variations/tweaks of windows. Thei firmware is pretty restrictive in what you cna install as upgrades. Dell has their firmware but at least you can get around it and change/upgrade without having to go back to them to do it.
I haven;t worked with Gateway in a few years but their firmware was the same way. Tried to install a bigger disk and all the system would ever recognize was the capacity of the smaller one.