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TheKomodo:
@SiD
If I get a refund on this, because of the way they've screwed the delivery and the product description, you reckon you could find me a better deal? What would you recommend?
The refund will be £233.95 so that's my budget, but I could perhaps put in an extra £10-£30 if I can get something much better?
I definitely want this old style with VGA Port, DVD-ReWriter etc.
Edit - Wait, wtf, is this sh*t legal??
I can't view my order anymore but I checked out another one exactly the same, the 1st product description says 630, the part under it says 4000:
How the f**k they get away with being misleading like that? If it's the same for mine i'm gonna be raging, I always go by the specs part on the top... Damn... Yeah partly stupid on my behalf but what the actual f**k! I can tolerate my delivery being a few days late but having misleading advertisement is not on man...
SiD:
--- Quote from: TheKomodo on January 17, 2019, 07:12 PM ---What would you recommend?
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Chuck away your DVDs, benefit from a life less cluttered and a system with less moving parts.
Sensei:
You're right Komo, I'm not a biggest tech junkie around, but I know a bad deal when I see one.
Paying that money for this rig is not worth it even if their thinkpads are made of same material ppl use to build rockets.
Under hood is what really matters and you're buying 3rd gen of i5 with 2 cores, only 4gb of slower ddr3 ram and less than 500gb of hdd (not even ssd) in 2019. On top of all - that's not even new, but refurbished product :D
100-200$ - sure
300$ - nah.
TheKomodo:
Sensei, if you can find the same product, for a lot less money, I will accept it's a bad deal.
I understand it's a bad deal to you, because you only care about the power of the machine, the cpu, the memory, the graphics.
I already have a good laptop I got 3-4 years ago will last several more years:
Intel i7-6700K 4gz
64gb RAM - DDR4
GTX 980 (Desktop) 8gb
SSD Drive 500gb / and 1TB SATA
The one thing this laptop lacks, is a DVD drive, and I don't want an external one.
I don't want to give up my DVD collection, that's insane, I have so many of my favourite stuff on boxset:
Friends, South Park, Family Guy, Rodney, Star Trek TNG, American Dad, Scrubs to name a few, not to mention hundreds of films, and stand-up comedy dvds.
I am looking for something up to £250 that suits me, I like the look of it, and does the job I want, and the thinkpad does exactly that, it's got weight to it, it's robust, it has nice speakers, a DVD Re-Writer, i've heard better reviews about the durability and reliability about this kind of laptop than anything else within the same price range, and quite frankly, older products just last longer because of materials used, and the biggest geek I know says it's a great laptop as well.
I couldn't find a cheaper deal, or better thinkpad, for my budget, by all means, if you think you can find me a better price for this laptop, please, i'm actually asking you, please find me a better price as i'll be returning this after discovering their advertisement of the graphics was misleading and being f**ked around with the delivery.
If you can help me find a better deal, or a better laptop with the same features, i'd appreciate it!
Edit - The thing i'm really disappointed in, is the top product description, the one that loads when you click "view product details", says "Intel HD Graphics 630" but then the part under it says "Intel HD Graphics 4000".
So i've bought it thinking I was getting 630 when actually could be getting 4000, it's not that big a deal as the only game i'd want to run is WA and it would handle that, but it's the fact they are advertising 2 completely different types of graphics for 1 product...
Sensei:
--- Quote from: TheKomodo on January 17, 2019, 11:14 PM --- Sensei, if you can find the same product, for a lot less money, I will accept it's a bad deal.
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Same model as yours, also refurbished product, sold by good reputation e-bayer:
1st result on the 1st page of google: https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-LENOVO-THINKPAD-T430-14-LAPTOP-CORE-i5-2-6GHz-4GB-RAM-320GB-HDD-WIN-7-PRO/323632327350?epid=9023572206&hash=item4b59fd6ab6:g:WV0AAOSwyGZZ~bjS
When you first posted specs of this thinkpad yesterday, I was actually checking it a bit to see how it handles nowadays. Found out that ppl buying these (with i5, 4gb ram and hdd) between 100-150$. While same model of thinkpad that goes up to 300$ are the ones equipped with i7, 8/16gb ram and ssd.
This false advertising about gpu chip is their "mistake" but also yours. Cause you knew which cpu you're getting and by that info it was clear you can't have better gpu chip than hd4000. Props to SiD for noticing.
I don't wanna mislead you, or "prove" you wrong.. Don't really care what you do with your money, but since you asked us, my personal opinion is that you should wait for better deal.
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