@design_RG That's an amazing deal.

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@Kovaelin

And it was in perfect shape, plus Free Shipping. Here in Canada only, they don't sell overseas.

A 12" model, for Travel -- I could keep Blogging and fediversing with it, while my HP is a beast and too heavy to carry on a backpack.

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@design_RG
What.... That sounds too cheap
@Kovaelin

@k11m1

Honest to God. That is including sales tax -- it was $225 CAD before tax, free shipping. And it came perfect, packaged so well.

I wanted to send one overseas to a friend, and the quotes I got, shipping only were about $350 CAD. So, impossible to justify.

I am telling you about this kind of deal because many people don't know about them. In the USA there's even more. In Europe it could be more expensive, but it's such a lovely place to live that I wouldn't mind paying the extra costs.

@Kovaelin

@design_RG
Ye.... You are right... Its more expensive but er dont have things like in america.... I can't even complain
@Kovaelin

@k11m1
Are you in Europe, then? I noticed systems prices a bit higher there. Got a very nice deal on a mobile though
@Kovaelin

@design_RG
Central Europe.. Not even Germany where you make 3 times the money than in my place
@Kovaelin

@k11m1 CAD hasn't been great lately, so it's good to have options here.

My brother bought a laptop off Kijiji a while back. Sometimes, you encounter rich people just offloading their old (but sometimes still in the original packaging) gear to make room for new toys every year.

@design_RG

@k11m1

In Europe there are less options for low cost, although you might be able to find a similar company operating in Germany. They must also cycle thru hardware in 3 year times or so, I imagine, and have equally nice business class gear.

@Kovaelin

@design_RG @k11m1 Fingers crossed for lucky deals or price errors!

@Kovaelin

I would shop on that site or similar ones, there are few companies in Toronto operating this kid of thing. You can't beat the price or quality of their offerings, althought we could get lucky with Kijiji.

I got 3 Dell PowerServers from there, unbelievable price, I just had to buy all 3. Too cheap to pass.

Those are rack mount, RAID disks with hot swapping if needed, dual Xeon processors and loads of slots for ram. They are a bit noisy and suck some electricity so not for casual play, they are sever class, IT machinery.

The Thinkpad T500 I mentioned is an older model, but I love the design and couldn;t resist the price either. It's running well and the rubberized black coating is so cool.

@k11m1

@design_RG If I had Stateside contacts, I'd be ordering more stuff online for sure.

@k11m1

@k11m1 @Kovaelin just looked at their HP Elitebooks and they are a bit pricier, the Thinkpads W are better deal.

https://www.wintroniccomputers.com/1761-0/refurbished/notebook-workstations/hp

Mine is similar to the first one in the list. This company is legit, I have purchased from them before.

@k11m1 @Kovaelin i7 processor, Quad core, plus hyperthreading -- 8 possible processing threads, it's wonderful.

@design_RG
I would Luke to get some light laptop because my current one is heavy and on battery it doesn't have ... Long life... Also it has just i3-380m and that thing isnf even stock...
@Kovaelin

@design_RG @k11m1 It might be worth waiting if you can right now, since AMD has been showing it's a threat to Intel. So, things might finally start to take some leaps ahead again with processors.

@Kovaelin
T495 is on amd
@design_RG

@Kovaelin
I like to see competition, many years ago I built and sold systems and offered all kids of alternatives as a lower cost option. Then AMD started to get crappier in rating their processors close to the max possible performance, while Intel ones were usually rated at less, and could be pushed if desired.

This is a long time ago, so things have changed, 20 years or so. But I have been mostly on Intel systems, a few older machines still here (I hate scrapping them) have Athlon 64 processors.
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