10 Things to do BEFORE Buying a Used Laptop!

Hope everyone had a great week! Here's my top 10 list for things you need to do before you go out and buy yourself a used laptop from Kijiji, Craigslist, eBay, etc.

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[fungalwater]

Tip: Don't let your mum pick. Just don't

[Larry-qzes]

Earlier this year, I had an HP laptop that stopped working due to a broken WiFi cable, then I had purchased a used HP Elitebook 840. Prior to purchasing, I had checked the item for any physical damages, no problems to report and the operation at boot up, all good as well. The hard drive was at 320 gigs and the memory was 4 gigs. Updated the hard drive to 1TB SSD and the ram to 16. Battery life is good but I plan to buy another for better life operation. Overall, the purchase was good since I had traded in my old laptop for $55.00 and this for $120.00 (originally $175).

[sardorbek]

It is one of the most useful videos I've seen in the last couple of months. Thanks a lot

[farikkun]

try use ssd if u haven tried one. if u become allergic to hdd, make sure your future laptop has ability to use ssd. like remove the dvd-rom an swap it with storage drive

[TechWithBrett]

Great tips! I should have tested sound on my used laptop. Would have saved me a huge headache!

[motogee]

Checklist
- Upgradability
- original parts - ram, wifi card, SSD etc
- dead pixels
- battery life
- functionality of keys
- Wifi
- speakers/sound
- Any warranty?
- activated windows (if applicable)
- run performance test software

[max]

3:05 Yeah, why have the opportunity to return the broken laptop u bought on Ebay in 30 days (FOR ANY PRODUCT, EVEN IF SELLER DOESN'T ACCEPT RETURNS) if you can just buy a laptop off craigslist, that breaks in a week, and ull have no way of returning it. Great advice!

[philipgiovanniemmer]

Great video, but as the ironic guy said a little more down on the comments, buying off eBay isn't actually bad. You don't get to try the laptop before buying it, but you still have eBay's and eventually PayPal's coverage. Those are actually really important!

[Scottieshot]

I can’t stress enough how important common sense is.

[mahmood]

I needed this video when I bought a laptop 7 years ago, now I am buying my second laptop and learned this on my own already, still great video 👍

[DynastyBedo]

I'm so sad that your amazing channel is only at 9k subs
And you don't get enough views
I will totally support you and i really love your video
Keep doing them ❤

[ecsta_chic]

thank you! Your tips is an eye opener. 💯

[nytcat]

Loved your video. Very informative and helpful. Earned yourself a subscriber ✔️

[effencurry]

Never get the Pavilion HP laptop if you want it to last longer than maybe a month, because these are usually just for a temporary use.

[bamf]

I want a laptop for work/studying. And to game sometimes with it at the same time.

[jslezily]

This video facilates to choose which laptop will I buy. It's fantastic. I appreciate it.

[lucasbunting-dossantos]

5:40 Im buying a 2018 xps 15 for then I realise this video is 3 years old lmao

[ethanpapp]

I love this because I was going to buy a used one!!!

[Mourne]

Which performance test software do u suggest?

[PolakeXD]

Don't buy the x1 carbon (second gen) that is shown in this video!

The typing experience will be really horrible and the wifi card will fail after some time.
Sure, this x1 carbon has a touchbar like the MacBook Pro 2016 but it's not really worth it for the longer run.

I would recommend the third or fourth gen X1 Carbon or a ThinkPad T440p with i5 4300, IPS Display and Nvidia GPU.
This laptop also allows you to use three SSDs.
One SSD will be a mSATA one (I think), the second SSD will be a SATA SSD that can be in the same place where the Mainboard is and the third SSD will be another SATA one but this SSD will make you sacrifice 8$ for a DVD HDD Caddy and your DVD drive will have to be removed.

Overall, I did similar thing with a 240gb mSATA SSD for the OS and both of the SATA SSDs have 500gb of storage.