21-30k Buying used Thinkpads from laptop resellers in BLR ?

theagilecoder said:
If no GPU required, why not a laptop?
My Thinkpad T14s has 8 core 16 threads AMD cpu, 32 gb ram, takes in any SSD you want to upgrade to, 3 display outputs, 8+ hours of battery life, magnesium build, thin and light (1.25 kg) that I bought used for 27k. The RX Vega 7 iGPU is fairly capable of almost all new games if details are lowered.

...And thinkpads are well known to last a decade.
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Any reliable corporate thinkpad t14 or t490 or thinkpad carbon laptop (mostly used) sellers?
 
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Kumaraguru said:
Any reliable corporate thinkpad t14 or t490 or thinkpad carbon laptop (mostly used) sellers?
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mr824 said:
I never seem to understand the refurb Laptop scene, here in India, for devices that are somewhere in between primordial and pretty recent. Sites like hilaptop et al. ooze shadiness, OLX is a hit or miss, filled with non-native sellers and their scary WhatsApp invitations. Other places have scanty inventory. Maybe the FB groups is the answer but far from hassle-free.
I got my X230 from a personal seller on OLX cutting the middleman. I'd advise cut the middle-person, if possible.
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Let me try to explain as per my conversations with several resellers on how they get these laptops and...
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mr824 said:
I never seem to understand the refurb Laptop scene, here in India, for devices that are somewhere in between primordial and pretty recent. Sites like hilaptop et al. ooze shadiness, OLX is a hit or miss, filled with non-native sellers and their scary WhatsApp invitations. Other places have scanty inventory. Maybe the FB groups is the answer but far from hassle-free.
I got my X230 from a personal seller on OLX cutting the middleman. I'd advise cut the middle-person, if possible.
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Let me try to explain as per my conversations with several resellers on how they get these laptops and...
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Bro kindly share me the reseller contact
 
Most corporate laptops are leased and not bought . MNC lease them and those laptop specs are much higher than what is available in the market . Typically , like gen14th processor when the current market is running gen 13th . The companies place order and then they are shipped from China , HK or Singapore . Lead time for a contract could be btwn 2 weeks to 2 months . Depends on the company warehouses .

There are quite a few leasing companies who lease out to these MNC . The duration would be project based or time based . Most of the time , the average lease period is around 1-2 years . Only if the MNC has directly bought the hardware infrastructure then they keep it for at least 2-3 years .
Most times one can get a current model off lease hardware for a decent price . While the prices for individual retail pieces maybe 1 lakh plus , a bulk deal of say 500 pieces can be bought for 30-40k . It is a volume game and companies and their distributors are more bothered about volumes at that point .
I bought a Lenovo TIny 720 with i3 8th gen , 16gb ram and 256 NVME for about 3800 rupees in Africa . Most of the used IT hardware is now being dumped in Africa . In India the same config could cost at least 13-14 k
 
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