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Yes they try to lowball you. I think what happens is that Cashify has a database of used stuff dealers. They connect you with a near by dealer from their list. Then the dealer comes to pick up your device and says all kinds of bad things about your device. In one case, he told me he had to pay a...

thanks 1599484795 there is no gaming GPU in it. 1599484812 Purchased already

Yes Vivek. I bought the one @Julian mentioned. He just got it yesterday. I would have gone for the one you had told me about a couple of months back but I could not come to Bombay, pick it up and ship it to Goa.

Bought HP Notebook - 15-da0414tu last night. I had been on the lookout for HP Laptop - 15s-eq1042au as first choice and tried to buy it first since both suddenly became available on the HP website. During my purchase attempt, it failed 3 times for various reasons. In the third attempt it went...

Thanks @Amien @Karthik G - my desktop is a skylake pentium (G4560) with 8 GB RAM and OS and MSO on SSD and 3 other HDDs for data and rarely used programs. It works very well so I get what you're saying. In my work, I often have 4 browsers going and 2 of them have more than 30 tabs open between...

So far my search has been fruitless because almost all suitable laptops seem to be out of stock or priced too high for some reason. I believe it started with the work-from-home demand and just as it stabilized, the school-from-home demand kept the market firmly in the sellers' zone. Since...

The first and the last are good though out of stock at the moment. Regarding the middle one, I am not sure how the processor squares up against the i3 for normal office type tasks. Thanks for the links. I have set up notifications when they are available. 1598273215 This is for basic office...

@Julian is right. I went through recent FS posts and there is nothing remotely like a good deal. @red dragon being a non-techie doctor is key here. You need a tool, you don't want to be bothered with something unreliable. You have to have confidence in the unknown tool and expect it works the...

Dell has New Vostro 15 3580 with the Pentium Gold CPU priced at 28K. This looks like it should be OK?

Both are not available. The first one is not available the the user's pincode and the second is out of stock

What you're saying makes sense but the user is a doctor and is not too comfortable with tech changes. Too steep learning curve. So it is better to get him a laptop that will not be entirely obsolete in a short time. Essential requirements: Running Windows 10 and MS Office (Word, Excel and...

Hi Emil To be very honest, It is very difficult to find all the specs you have mentioned within the budget you have mentioned especially the "last for many years" part because most of what they sell in India below 50k is of dubious quality. However, having said that, please check out these...

My son-in-law needs a laptop in Goa. His present laptop is a Lenovo G450 Core2Duo which he wants to replace. He is a doctor, a complete non-techie and since I am in Pune, I cannot help him. The new laptop should have Windows 10 and MS Office lifetime license installed. I have recommended him i3...

No gaming required at all. He may perhaps play chess but that's about it.

Should have Windows and MS Office. Mostly Word and Powerpoint. No other major requirements. Maybe decent battery backup and no need for a porter to carry it around :) Not sure if AMD would give far better VFM than Intel but the person who requires it is a doctor in Goa and is not a techie...

thanks @huskyhunter and @k_m_Arya I did not find v4.23 and v4.24 at first because it showed up much lower in the list for me. I will look into this once the lockdown is lifted. I cannot afford to screw up the router while I am working from home and cannot buy a replacement urgently.

I took a look at the OpenWRT hardware support list. My router hardware version is v4.24 and for some reason, the list has v4.20, 21 -- v4.28 but v4.23 and v4.24 are missing. Any idea why? Does it mean there is no compatible version for my router? I look at the warning that 4MB/32MB is not...

Thanks for your responses. I will look at OpenWRT after the lockdown is lifted. What will happen to all my settings when I update the firmware? Will everything be like factory reset or does everything need to be reconfigured?

My router versions are: Firmware Version: 3.16.3 Build 130104 Rel.55864n Hardware Version: WR740N v4.24 I will not try anything risky during the lockdown. I cannot afford the router to break as I am dependent on it to work from home. What benefits will flashing 3rd party firmware give me?

makes sense. Thanks