Colin Baker
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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You'll see them with kind of more stylised machines.
They're the more retail grade.
They have a totally different life expectancy.
The refurbished machines, if you're getting it professionally, come from that professional bracket.
So machines with much longer lives and that are much more serviceable.
You know, that's my hobby horse, Brendan.
I do.
I've been banging the refurb drum for over 20 years because I'm just intrinsically, I don't like waste and I like to save money and I like to get a better experience on top of that.
And with refurbished, with proper factory refurbished laptops, like say Lenovo do the Thinkpads, Dell do some as well, HP do them to a
limited extent not all the brands do professional machines or cater for factory refurbishment processes lenovo in ireland actually have a two-year warranty on their refurbished equipment and if you want to liken price you might compare a 600 euro machine probably most of your listeners will know that tech has gone up an awful lot in the last few months because ai is sucking up all those processors and gpus and the like but just to give you a price point brendan yeah
You could be talking, say you go out with 600 euro and you go for a retail machine, you might get a certain level of spec and I won't blind you with science, but you'll get a half decent machine that will do a job for maybe two or three years.
Whereas if you go for a professional factory refurbished machine like a ThinkPad, you'll get something twice as powerful and quick, twice as feature rich, and then more than twice as enduring.
So it lasts longer, it's more upgradable and serviceable.
and it'll give you a better experience over that time.
It's not like a second-hand machine.
It's more like buying new.
There's less chance of getting someone's old family pics on a factory refurbished machine than there is on new equipment.
Even new equipment...
do occasionally use, you know, used previously parts.
That does happen from time to time as well.
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