Here's where I've bought Dell in the past. Off lease refurbished units have worked great for me.
https://www.dellrefurbished.com/
It's at least worth a look.
https://www.dellrefurbished.com/
It's at least worth a look.
Are you referring to a desktop?morning, computer geeks at best buy repair/customer svc.
at very knowledgeable as to best computer usage.
davetex has a good solution. I have mine made.
I read up on best components for my usage. order the
parts from tiger. then have to computer built.
I have a teacher at my local HS do the build and programming.
buy a mother board that accepts add on if this is
the way u want to go.
justme gbot tum
best buy is the best at the repair/costumer svc.Are you referring to a desktop?
best buy is the best at the repair/costumer svc.
the young people r computer geeks. very knowledge
about computers and usage. davetex
has good info on refurbished models.
normally there is more than one.
if possible I try to get advice from all.
justme gbot tum
Touch screen?BTW....I know nothing about computers, just have a lot of em around
They all come with Blutooth/wi-fi capabilities now. Disc's are a thing of the past.
For the most part I do not surf on my phone, much prefer a laptop so I carry mine everywhere.
Also forgot to say that mine is foldable in half to make a pad out of it and is a touchscreen. Wifey's is not obviously.
Oh yea. Fold in half feature so you end up with a 15 inch pad. (read as: great for old eyes )Touch screen?
Me likey
Mac - if we didn’t have to deal with a CAC, that’s what we’d be on solely.Now if there was just a good alternative to Windows 10.
If anyone wants a secure email checker, I recommend a $30 Raspberry Pi. It has a chrome browser, a non Microsoft office suite, and runs decently on a micro SD memory card. Some have wireless, some have Ethernet RJ45.
You may have to type 4 lines out of a manual to set it up from scratch.
Most people I demonstrate one to buy it because it is faster than their home computer.
YMMV
Wow, does that bring up bad memories. You're absolutely right, though.I found it massively irritating that Dell's could have various different chipsets within the same model for multiple parts of the system. Depended on who was the lowest bidders the day they made the model I guess.
That dichotomy is an important one to keep in mind.I like my work Lenovo machines I've had over the years but I'd never recommend a consumer one
Hmmm. OK. I won't dispute you on that.best buy is the best at the repair/costumer svc.
the young people r computer geeks. very knowledge
about computers
Here's where I've bought Dell in the past. Off lease refurbished units have worked great for me.
https://www.dellrefurbished.com/
It's at least worth a look.
I would find it fair to say best buy's geek squad is going to be hit and miss depending on the employees you get. Some are massively knowledgeable, others are about as useful as any regular PC user.Hmmm. OK. I won't dispute you on that.
I will, however, observe that if this is true, then Best Buy has done a 180 sometime in the last decade.
The fact that Best Buy Geek Squad employees have been employed by the FBI to search every computer that comes into the shop is enough for me to stay away.
Just got home and read this.
There are only two brands you can consider if you need a smartcard reader:
HP and Dell
Lenovo is out because of obvious reasons (you can pm me about it if you don't know what they are.)
Anyone else is out because their support and logistics will be too shitty to be reliable if you do have an issue.
I don't know what HPs support system is like. I do know what Dell's is like and there is a reason people buy them.
Total disclaimer. I work at Dell in the highest level of commercial support you can get. We sold 71 million PCs last year on top of the 280 million (verified) Dell service tags still in operation (those that logged onto the net and at least sent a signal to our update servers to check for an update.) About 1/3 of that is consumer/client (what you'd be) so round it off to 130 million Dell consumer/client PCs. At my level of support WORLDWIDE we had 24000 tickets last year (12000 of them in the US.) So out of 130 million PCs 24000 or so had an issue serious enough that it required L3 or L4 support.