Places to Buy Refurbished Laptop with Graphics Card?

damnable on 09/03/2025 - 14:22
Last edited 09/03/2025 - 15:30 by 1 other user

Hi awesome people, I'm looking at buying a new laptop in the next few months, and I'm looking at getting one with something more than integrated graphics.

If you must know the use case is playing movies (FHD and hopefully 4K), while also running augmented reality program (e.g. zwift, indievelo), while connected to a TV.

I'm looking for places that might have non-new (e.g. refurbished) options to save some cash.

I'm frugal and have had decent success purchasing refurbished laptops for more everyday/business use. However, most available are ex-business laptops, so don't have that bit of extra graphics grunt I'm wanting. I've only really seen the Dell outlet as an option - are there any other places to keep an eye on? Failing that, I'll take any suggestions on laptop options that will do the job reliably and I can get frugally please. A small desktop unit might be an option, but smaller units have the same issue with graphics power.

Thanks, and have a wonderful day.

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  TALL1one on 09/03/2025 - 15:32

  Something like this perhaps

  https://www.mydeal.com.au/acer-nitro-v-gaming-laptop-16-r5-8…

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  freefall101 on 09/03/2025 - 16:16

  Acer refurb store is one place.

  I bought a gaming desktop from these guys about 5 years ago at a good price too, they do certified refurbished asus stuff. The desktop I got was completely clean (no dust anywhere) and had a brand new SSD in it.

  A mac mini would work as well, it has a pretty decent GPU in it.

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  CodeXD on 09/03/2025 - 16:39

  both lenovo and dell have outlet store you can also check

  https://www.lenovo.com/au/outlet/en/

  https://www.dell.com/en-au/outlet/

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  mitt on 09/03/2025 - 17:45

  You are correct that the refurb market for non-business class laptops is much slimmer, to the point where most of the cost advantages evaporate in my experience. Your only reliable bet is camping the dell/lenovo/etc refurb outlet stores & snagging a customer return. Even then the savings are far less than the commodity business laptops.

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  Windows7forever on 11/03/2025 - 23:18

  Cex