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| ~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>: Jun 08 12:53PM +1200 On 8/06/2019 1:04 AM, Tim R wrote: >> -- >> Shaun. > How do you find that? I lucked into a corporate quality Dell some time back and have been looking for another without success. Corporations turn their inventory over and dispose of some high quality machines regularly, but I haven't figured out how to tap into that. Even if they're wiped, no operating system, I run Linux and hard drives are cheap. I found an IT re-marketing company in Auckland who specialise in selling on ex-lease and ex-corporate equipment. They're wholesale only but I gave them a (semi-) fake business name and opened a cash-only account with them. I tend to buy a few machines a year as I buy for friends and they don't seem to mind the low volume. Maybe search for a similar business near you? With regard to the lack of OS due to wiped / absent HDDs it's not an issue with the recent Dells I've purchased (Optiplex 9020 minitower desktops and Lattitude E7440 laptops for myself and a couple of friends) as the hardware is pre-authenticated for Windows 10. I just download the latest W10 install to USB and when installing it reads the Dell service tag and doesn't ask for a serial number. You can then get any Dell-specific software you may want directly from their site. -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM" David Melville This is not an email and hasn't been checked for viruses by any half-arsed self-promoting software. |
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