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are people really buying these things? i mean it will be out of date in about 6 months and then what do you do with it? you have to junk it because you cant upgrade it.

I'm curious as to why one of these would be a refurb. Did the original buyer get it with Linux and get confused? Did the SSD drive go bad?

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Site is extremely unresponsive; currently lowest price available is $319. Add tax, and there's no deal to be had there.

Their site is broken, just like this deal and the machine for that matter.

Who actually has one and watches movies off of these?

I dont understand why people buy these when you can get an older mini notebook that can be customized to have way better specs and more features and costs less.

UGH the cheapest one they have is $315 - 20% = $255 not $231.

No deal.

refurbished, no deal here, if these were new then maybe it would be OK but refurbished = used or defective and the fixed. No headaches for me please.

Don't ever go for refurbished..bacon sucks...trust me.

Don't ever go for refurbished...trust me.

The Linux ones always sell out in 5 minutes and I'm not spending the extra for XP. If the demand is there for the Ubuntu models, they can just install it and subtract the cost of the XP license. Seems like a silly game they are playing.

# 8 and 9 - you two are idiots... refurbished is not a bad thing. It may just mean that someone sent it back cause they didnt like it or whatever. Plus when the techs go over it when they do come back, they make sure its working better than it did when it left the factory initially. I have a refurbished Dell that ive had for over 2 years now and no headaches at all, nothing has gone wrong with it and im in the IT field, so i know when stuff is junk compared to other things.
Just need to get your moronic heads out of your asses.

# 8 and 9 - you two are idiots... refurbished is not a bad thing. It may just mean that someone sent it back cause they didnt like it or whatever. Plus when the techs go over it when they do come back, they make sure its working better than it did when it left the factory initially. I have a refurbished Dell that ive had for over 2 years now and no headaches at all, nothing has gone wrong with it and im in the IT field, so i know when stuff is junk compared to other things.
Just need to get your moronic heads out of your asses.

Refirbshed/recertified stuff is good, depending on who does the work. Stuff from Apple I trust with no quams, and I'd imagine that Dell does their own referibshing too.

Half the time these outlet products are machines sent back because someone didn't know what they were getting in to, so no problems, but since they were used it has to be marked as something other then new!

#12 and #13 are also idiots. Refurb means more risk. Just because a tech went over it doesn't mean the original problem is fixed. These techs are low paid drones who have a quota on how many machines they "refurb" per day. They do quick testing that won't catch an intermittent problem. If the machine crashes after 15 minutes of use or only when you hold it a certain way and it flexes then they won't catch it.

You can actually mod these things quite a bit. One guy installed an internal GPS, etc. I picked one up a few weeks back for $99 with a laptop purchase.

http://mydellmini.com/

How did u do that? Please provide more details. Thanks

Seems like a good deal anyway.

The ssd and ram are very easy to mod. Likewise, one can do any number of things to these to upgrade them, look at jkk mobile on youtube. As far as being refurbs and why they have so many of them, I would bet that most people who order them: 1. don't realize how small they are, and 2. don't realize they do not come with a cd drive. I did see one for $299 but I hit the refresh before I could see what the specs were. Im using one now. The only complaint I have is the quote mark on the keyboard. But, this is an Asian-sourced unit, so they probably just needed to fill-in wherever they could in terms of key characters.

on the refurbished things. I have bought many items such as GPS, IPODS etc refurbished and never had an issue. It depends on who does the refurbishing and who you buy it from.

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