Hi Sudhir, A) It is not at all a good idea to buy a second hand laptop. The wear and tear on these units is much higher than a desktop. It is quite hard to find a second hand laptop in perfect working order. The battery will be discharging soon, there may be overheating problems and so on. Above all, laptop spares are extremely costly. It is also difficult to find out the problems of a second hand laptop by looking at it for a few minutes.
B) I can give you a couple of contacts. Both of them are my good friends. They will help her certainly. C) Use the laptop for 3 or 4 days and see if it suits your purpose and if there are any problems. Things to look out are: 1. Battery backup (if at all the battery is working). 2. Problems like switching off or slowing down considerably after long hours of use due to overheating. 3. Checking for any illegal operation errors which may indicate a defective RAM. 4. Checking to see if the peripheral devices like modems, ethernet cards and so on are working correctly. 5. Checking for any physical damages or likely soft spots. This may include hinges of the monitor, keyboard, etc. 6. Checking to see if the optical drives like CD ROM or Cd Writer are working correctly. I would still advise against going for a second hand laptop. It is too risky in my opinion. Also so called experts who sell these laptops do not really understand our needs. For most people, laptop is still a show off. Regards, Kiran. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sudhir R Sent: Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:49 AM To: Access India Subject: [AI] Second-hand laptops Hi friends ! A student planning to pursue a PG course in CIEFL, Hyderabad has been advised to get herself a laptop to aid her studies. Considering that a good laptop with a Pentium Mobile chip and other features is still priced at or over Rs 40 k, she is considering buying a second-hand one. Please advise whether : a) Do you feel buying a laptop second-hand is a good decision ? b) Are there reliabled used laptop vendors at Hyderabad who would give her after sales support, though may be on a payable basis ? c) Any particular aspects to watch out for while purchasing a second-hand laptop ? She has not yet worked on a laptop and is a lil' apprehensive about the adaptation, especially since she will be new to Hyderabad and does not have a support structure there. Please help her out with your views and experiences. Thanks and regards R Sudhir M: 098 472 76 126 To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in