Post: #26

(08-28-2014 09:19 AM)Jack198 Wrote:  Do you always ship your refurbished laptops with an OS? That part could get expensive. Unless you found a workaround

Yes, i always ship with OS... that makes a solid difference in price points....and no, it is not expensive because.....well... i find an "alternative solution"...so to speak, let me just put it that way.

regards,

Nemencine

p.s. i am shipping out by next week wednesday the last batch of my 53 Dell Latitude D 630 with windows 7 OS. Acquisition cost per computer: $46; selling price per computer: $110.(goes for higher prices on ebay/amazon; i always undersell the competitors). Got my hands on it from the police department, they are clearing out.

Post: #27

Nem,

Imaging is my speciality. Cloning hardrives is easy, but you run into problems, like, hardware changes, driver changes, and sometimes different hardrive sizes that dont work togther. Also, everytime you need to change the base image, you have to do a capture and re-sysprep your main drive, hours of time lost.

You could use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 (MDT) and one server to keep a layered approached to imaging. This is a base image, layered with drivers, applications, updates etc.

The tool is free, but the server OS would cost of course. You could scale this as need be.


Just my two cents.

Post: #28

(08-28-2014 09:19 AM)Jack198 Wrote:  Do you always ship your refurbished laptops with an OS? That part could get expensive. Unless you found a workaround

Most computers have a COA sticker with the key on the bottom. The newest ones with W8 have the license embedded in the BIOS.

Back in the XP days it didn't matter on Dells. I have a Dell XP disc that will install and auto activate with the special key as long as the BIOS is Dell-branded (even works on servers).

Post: #29

(08-29-2014 10:37 AM)DJ-Matt Wrote:  

(08-28-2014 09:19 AM)Jack198 Wrote:  Do you always ship your refurbished laptops with an OS? That part could get expensive. Unless you found a workaround

Most computers have a COA sticker with the key on the bottom. The newest ones with W8 have the license embedded in the BIOS.

Back in the XP days it didn't matter on Dells. I have a Dell XP disc that will install and auto activate with the special key as long as the BIOS is Dell-branded (even works on servers).

That's nice when they have it, but if he's shipping to a third world country he should find out what they need it for - if its for schools and basic word processing, he could install Ubuntu Linux, which comes with Open Office (or can be added easily) and it's free. Ubuntu has come a long way since it came out and should work on most laptops with most peripherals without a lot of headaches. So, unless they insist on Windows, I'd see if they're interested in Ubuntu.