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DonaldsRump

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14. That's good to know
Fri Dec 11, 2020, 02:32 AM
Dec 2020

I was shocked in the late summer when I looked at getting a cheap computer how little I could find. I was trying to get one for my daughter for online school. I finally gave up and just gave her a new computer I had bought in March when I thought I would be doing a lot of travelling.

I am no longer enamored with Amazon. It is not always the cheapest (it used to be reliably the best and easiest way to find good deals on non-Apple computers, but no more). BestBuy is very good. eBay is GREAT for parts if you go the route of getting a good used laptop and then do some add ons (memory and a solid state hard drive does wonders for PCs.

I regularly use a 7 year old PC that I have repaired myself and done add ons. So, if you go the used laptop route and then add some stuff to it, just check YouTube on videos to make sure you can add what you need to and to find guidance. It's so satisfying to boot up the computer and see that everything works! (My daughter loves Roblox too!)

I've learned in the last year or so that you need to keep scouring, and you will find good deals.

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