Anybody ever do any refurbishing to newer computers? - Page 2

Originally Posted by parrothead

This is probably usually true, but if you have someone with a call center or something like that wanting a bunch of like computers that they can just clone then sometimes a quantity is a good thing.

Sometimes anyway.

I am popping my cherry with the refurb thing. I have had a bunch of dealings with a local college kid that makes his extra money by refurbing. I just broke the limit on what I have ever paid for computers. I paid $15 each for these units. They are Pentium D with no hard drive and between the 2 of us we have enough hard drives to get them up and running.

Can't shoot for the stars with out going out on a limb occasionally.

Is he a registered refurbisher with Microsoft? I'm looking into this, I have the study guide printed out, to take this test for it, I'm pretty much thinking that it will make me look alot more professional by being registered with Microsoft for refurbishing computers then some dirtball 17 yr old asking about their computers.

Originally Posted by parrothead

No. But all of the computers have a sticker to run the system that we are installing on them. The hard drives that the operating system was on have been pulled and destroyed, so we have the right to reinstall that operating system back onto those units.

Yeah that's what I'm doing. But if I become registered I can put Windows 7 on the computers and all around 7 is way better then XP or Vista. Its more user friendly.

Computer should be refurbishes so that it would work properly and not get slow down because of excess of data files.After the re installation all the bugs that are produced due corrupt files will also be fixed so it is good way to keep it well.