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Article: Up-to-date technology at yesterday's prices. (purchasing refurbished PCs)(includes related article on computer terminology)(Buyers Guide)
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- Computer Shopper
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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You can play with semantics--like car dealers who say "pre-owned" rather than "used"--but the thought of buying a demonstrator, a magazine-review unit, or a returned-to-the-factory PC may not thrill you like the idea of a brand-new computer nestled in pristine foam and cardboard. A refurbished desktop can, however, deliver a ready-to-rumble punch of multimedia Pentium power or workhorse DX4 dexterity for a much lower price than that of a new machine. And savings beat semantics any day.
While scouring the ads in Computer Shopper may turn up comparably equipped systems at equal prices, the potential appeal of a refurbished PC is that you can buy--from a well-known ...