[Web4lib] TechSoup Refurbished Computers?

[Thomas Edelblute]

Once upon a time I had a white paper from Intel that showed hardware failure rate spiking upward after the fourth year.  My fourth year hard-drive and LCD monitor failure rate has been significant and has cost me a lot of money over the past year.   One of our support contractors that we have a master agreement with told me they recently had the opportunity to take apart a couple of LCD monitors that failed and it looks like there are two capacitors in the things that just gave out.

This is my long winded way of saying that I am suspicious of anything that is not new.  Although 7% of all electronics fail out of the box, so being new is not a guarantee of anything either.

Good luck.  I hope that whatever you do will work out for you.

Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Michael J. Dargan
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:54 PM
To: Web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] TechSoup Refurbished Computers?

Hello--
I'm looking for people who have purchased refurbished computers from
TechSoup.  I see that they currently offer off-lease Dell 2.8-3.0 P4s, 512
ram, and 90 day warranty for $169.  What am I likely to get?  Optiplexes?
 Dimensions?  Vostros?  I figure I couldn't go too far wrong for $169, but
still, I'm intrigued by the idea of buying 10--what's the worst that could
happen?

--
Michael J. Dargan
Reference & Technical Systems Administrator
Waterloo & Cedar Falls Public Libraries
twitter.com/MikeDargan http://tinyurl.com/6bxx8q
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