Friend is offering to sell me his 1 year old Surface Pro 5 for $800. Or should I just buy the Surface Pro 6 brand new? I am going to try ask for $700 if it is worth at this price.
2nd Hand Microsoft Surface Pro 5
i5
256GB
8GB RAM
Keyboard and Pen included
Thanks Ozb Fam
Using as a teaching resource. Need the 2 in 1 aspect of it.
Depends if you think its worth it.
He may have paid around 1.3k - 1.4k for it.
It is the 256gb / 8gb model after all
https://renewd.com.au/collections/microsoft/products/microso…
$769, 3 months warranty. Older model
EDIT. I just found the same model with better specs.
https://renewd.com.au/collections/microsoft/products/microso…
Do these come with the keyboard and pen? Cause I know those cost quite abit. And my friends offering the Surface Pro 5 is it much of an upgrade from 5? I'll ask him again how the condition is…
Nah I don't think it does.
Is your friends version HDD or SSD? That's an important factor with these little tablets and laptops in my opinion.
Surface Pro's only come in SSD
@Arcticviper: I followed the title it's incorrect.
https://renewd.com.au/collections/microsoft/products/microso…
All Microsoft Surface models are SSD.
edit: beat me.
@hypie: I followed the title it's incorrect.
https://renewd.com.au/collections/microsoft/products/microso…
Check ebay, filtering by sold items, to see what people paid in the last few months.
Use - to remove results.
It's not a bad price I think. If you're happy with the device and it's features/limitations, I think it's a good option.
Now what's important is that it should still have warranty which is transferable.
Overall, they're nice devices, but enough people have problems with them that they're not some extremely durable device. If you look after it, it should serve you well, but then, I had one which had the USB port fail with no warning. With some work on my part, they did replace it when it was out of warranty but it wasn't immediate.
Keyboard is a must though, pen kind of useless unless you like to draw. The tablet experience is woeful. I also find myself quite often wanting a laptop instead. The kick stand kind of sucks in hindsight.
I'll take it for $800 if you don't OP; the Pro 6 8GB/128GB is currently $1145 at JB and brings the much much faster 8th gen quad core processors and significantly more battery life
(I'm serious btw; PM me)
Has anyone tried the cut down Go models?
Mum needs a replacement for her eeepad, which was a similar concept (2-in-1) but nowhere near as well done (I think).
She just wants to browse, pay bills, do spreadsheet stuff on it. That said, the reviews saying the processor is cruddy still kind of put me off. JB's best offer was $866.50 for the 8gb ram/256gb SSD version with the keyboard. It really doesn't seem that cheap for a budget machine once you count in the (arguably essential) keyboard. Looking to be convinced otherwise.
I might be a bit of a pesimist now after my recent dealing with my Surface Pro 4(s).
But is there any other alternatives you could consider buying for your purposes?