Need a "new" laptop

[Brons2]

The original Space Shuttle computers were 32 bit machines running about 1/2 million instructions per second with KB of RAM memory, later upgraded to about 1MB and doubling the speed - your old laptop is far faster, with more RAM and is more than capable of launching the Space Shuttle!

the biggest issue I've found with older computers, besides Win11 requiring a TPM, is the mechanical hard drives. I have an 18 year old desktop with an Intel E2200 and it was almost unusable with the traditional hard drive, works fine with an SSD for web surfing and other general Internet use.

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

Dell Refurbished. I've bought 3 here.

https://www.dellrefurbished.com/category/store-nb-std/laptops/standard-laptops/1.html

The A condition computers look brand new. Good luck installing another browser. Microsoft wants owners to use their Edge browser and has installed software to defeat almost any attempt to install another browser. Go for it cowboy.

https://www.dellrefurbished.com/category/store-nb-std/laptops/standard-laptops/1.html

 

[mrsilv04]

The A condition computers look brand new. Good luck installing another browser. Microsoft wants owners to use their Edge browser and has installed software to defeat almost any attempt to install another browser. Go for it cowboy.

The last two "A" condition laptops that I bought had to be new, or had only been used very little. I wonder if some of them are laptops that had some sort of issue after assembly or failed testing and had to be repaired... and then are sold as refurbished.

I've installed both Chrome and Firefox on all three laptops with no issue at all. I've never used Edge, never will. When they killed off IE, they lost me forever.