Think pads get ordered by companies in bulk. After a few years, they get swapped out for a newer model. The old ones often get resold to a refurbishing company, and they test them and sell them refurbished for way less money. This happens a lot, so because they are refurbished and there’s so many of them, prices are extremely low. I got like 6 of them for 200€ each. It’s insane. So that explains the extremely cheap ones.
I could hypothesize that the price jump is because there’s a gap between new and refurbished models, but tbh I don’t really know and I also don’t see that much of a jump. But that’s kind of my theory. Hope that helps.
Think pads get ordered by companies in bulk. After a few years, they get swapped out for a newer model. The old ones often get resold to a refurbishing company, and they test them and sell them refurbished for way less money. This happens a lot, so because they are refurbished and there’s so many of them, prices are extremely low. I got like 6 of them for 200€ each. It’s insane. So that explains the extremely cheap ones.
I could hypothesize that the price jump is because there’s a gap between new and refurbished models, but tbh I don’t really know and I also don’t see that much of a jump. But that’s kind of my theory. Hope that helps.
Or they get auctioned off in bulk and some local guy resells them on facebook marketplace piecemeal making a quick buck.
If I max out the ram and ssd space as much as is possible would that be as powerful or more than a Macbook pro of similar or lesser stats?
Is the think pad arm?
Im not sure yet, will be choosing a few canfidates on Saturday, I’ll see them when my chores are thru—I dont know how long ill be-eee