[Web4lib] TechSoup Refurbished Computers?

[Michael J. Dargan]

Thomas--

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Thomas Edelblute
<TEdelblute at anaheim.net>wrote:

> 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.


I've bought about 500 workstations, a dozen servers, and maybe 50 notebooks
since 1995 and don't recall any DOAs.  Though I did have a bunch of 53 GW2K
Profile 5Ms lose practically every one of their Maxtor HDs under warranty.
 I'm getting so I can change them (for Wester Digitals) in my sleep!


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


I'm probably too chicken to buy the TechSoup boxes.  The Dell Refurbished
sounds better---I'd hate to get some odd-ball stuff--I'm bigoted against
small form boxes--they seem to run run hot and die young.

--mike

>
>
> Thomas Edelblute
> Public Access Systems Coordinator
> Anaheim Public Library
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> 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
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Michael J. Dargan
Reference & Technical Systems Administrator
Waterloo & Cedar Falls Public Libraries
twitter.com/MikeDargan http://tinyurl.com/6bxx8q