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Not everyone can afford something better. For a family with a budget that can't stretch too much, this is ideal.

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I'd argue this would run chrome or firefox browser perfectly fine, and would be great for a young kid to watch their fav youtube stars.

we do not all use computers the same..

Are you calling yourself a tramp? not all children are spoilt , they would be glad to be even given one atleast. Not everyone is born with a golden spoon in there mouth, see the food banks and what goes on behind closed doors and you will soon realise. Money comes and goes. You should be grateful for what you have

Seems exactly what it's worth. Perfect for young children and homework. Otherwise I'd get a cheap Windows tablet and a keyboard. Giving it heat

Very old tech but great in its day.

These sell for about £60 on eBay.. So to be fair, this is actually a good price. Like xela333 said, these would be ideal for young children. Heat added

I would have loved a T7250 processor back in the day!

Still eligible for a Win 10 upgrade and could use it as a slave for downloads.

C2D is still pretty capable for basic things , though of course this is much heavier and less energy efficient than a modern Atom-based something or other. Heat, though I don't know why there's a need to state open box, I think if anyone actually had a new unopened one of these they might as well keep it as a collectible.

New battery too, what a bargain!

crap for tramps... who the hell would want this in 2016? even for kids its crap theyd moan all day with this ****! theres bargains and theres junk.

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Used to have one for work. Nothing wrong with these. Ordered for homework which it will be ideal for. Have some heat.

Great deal - thanks OP!

I'd say the one downfall with the D630 is that the soldered ram has a tendency of failing. You can put another stick in, but once it happens it can be a real pain to boot up.
Thinking about it might be the D620 that has the soldered RAM - can't quite remember!

Shame about seller. Misco is a crap company to deal with.

Decent laptop, more RAM than many modern cheap laptops, and with Gigabit Ethernet it even makes a decent small server. The HDD needs an upgrade, thought.

PS: The GPU sucks, any kind of 3D is pretty much impossible.

Perfect, just about to order 2 for work, we need some laptops with serial ports and usb to serial dont always work!

Why does it have a 32bit OS with 4GB RAM?

I really fancy a roast dinner.

Perfect for Linux

Because you don't get 3.5GB or 1.5Gb sticks to put in it :wink:

I'm using a D620 as our only laptop so this would be an upgrade!

As has been said, perfect for cheap web browsing

Because 3.5GB on 32bit is about the same as 4GB with 64bit due to the larger overheads of 64bit, and it'll probably perform more quickly for the sorts of software this laptop would be used for.

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Wouldn't buy anything from Misco, even this cheap - their after service is shocking.

This is a 9 year old laptop. It's not a hot deal, this is how much a 9 year old laptop should cost.

i find the ports-connectivity confusing.....does this have wifi?

It's been a few years, but I don't recall either D620 or D630 having soldered in RAM. They had 2 slots and both were accessible through a cover in the underside. I think 4GB is the max it can take, which is what this offer comes with.

Fairly dependable work laptop in it's day, but it's now probably pushing 8+ years old.

No, you would have to buy a wifi dongle

Just finished installing a cheap SSD into a D620 (Not soldered RAM), I updated to windows 10 and it performs just fine for basic use, using opera browser and seems pretty responsive. If this has a new battery then it looks like a bargain to me.I have in the past bought a number of D620 and D630 for the company. Found them to be pretty reliable. Before anyone questions installing an SSD into something this ancient, it was also a refurb hotdeal from over a year ago.

Connectivity
Wired:
Wired: 56K v924 Internal Modem 10/100/1000 Gigabit6 Ethernet network interface adaptor
Wireless:
Dell Wireless 5520 Mobile Broadband (Tri-band HSDPA 3.6) Mini-Card with service from AT&T (US) and Vodafone (select countries in Europe) Dell Wireless 5720 Mobile Broadband (EVDO Rev A) Mini-Card with service from Verizon Wireless (US), Sprint (US) and Telus (Canada)
WLAN
Dell Wireless 1390 (802.11g); Dell Wireless 1490 (802.11a/g); Dell Wireless 1505 (802.11a/g/Draft n); Intel PRO/Wireless 3945AG (802.11a/g); Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN (802.11a/g/ Draft n) Mini-Cards, Dell Wireless 360 Bluetooth 2.0 internal wireless card (upgradable to Bluetooth 2.1 EDR) (optional).

It should have either 802.11g, 802.11 a/g or 802.11 a/g/n via an internal card. If for some obscure reason someone has take the card out, you can pick one up for a few quid and they slot into a mini-pci type slot so very easy to fit.

Checking the site the same specs are £117 with a 1 year warranty.

NON LEFT???? Added to basket >>>proceed to checkout>>>basket empty???

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Same here. Expire?

Gotcha, thanks! Didn't know about overheads.

Are you calling yourself a tramp? not all children are spoilt , they would be glad to be even given one atleast. Not everyone is born with a golden spoon in there mouth, see the food banks and what goes on behind closed doors and you will soon realise. Money comes and goes. You should be grateful for what you have

32bit can only address a maximum of 4GB RAM this includes all the memory subsystems, so you end up with around 3.5GB or less usuable. 64bit can address around 16.8 Million Terabytes of RAM or 16 Exabytes, no computer has ever had that much RAM available or hard disk storage and none exist that can accomodate that much.

So we reached the limit of 32bit addressing, I can safely say that in my lifetime will we never reach the limit of 64bit addressing for disk storage let alone RAM on single consumer computer.

The maths behind it:

32bit: 2^32 bytes, or 4GB
64bit: 2^64 bytes, or 16EB (16.8 million Terabytes)

Where ^ notates to the power of.

but it's easy to reach the limit of how much Ram your hardware and the OS will support :smirk:

Actually for a lot of people this is more than they need in terms of spec. It will play YouTube fine be good for written work can download a good amount and shove in pen drive to transfer files. Hey even a £20 ssd will give it a good life.

These are great laptops ,superb build quality ,they don't make them like this anymore.
My mum uses one of these as her main laptop and it performs very well on Windows 7.
Put a ssd in and it bombs along.

Rather than be an ass hole, give some consideration that this is perfectly acceptable if your on a budget.

a poor value for money proposition in the long run.

yes people's budgets and needs are different, but in most instances, saving up and getting something better would probably make more sense IMO.

I fully agree!. :-)

Format it and use it as a dedicated kodi machine for hotels and holidays etc?

This would make a really COOL KODI System Box! (via Windows).

And via that you could ..... lol.

And/or Dual-Boot the Kodi version of Ubuntu on it also, and ..... yep!.

These are one of the most reliable laptops I've ever used and still using. I've got one of these without a screen running old Ubuntu server with uptime over 400 days and with the docking station I've got more ports than my high end workstation. The price is not the best as I bought recently D630 on ebay, without the battery for 15 quid with same 2GB RAM. The battery is probably not genuine so not worth it even its 10 pounds. Charger probably is also not genuine.

This is laptop for work, it's not fancy light cheap plastic with high resolution widescreen. The plastic of these is hard to crack :smile: I have tried many times.

Good for coding, great keyboard and I really prefer the old 'nipple' than touchpad.

Also good for small kids as it is just robust

"Unavailable"!

Not great value when you can buy a new laptop (albeit atom) for 80-100 quid

'Great for kids & grandparents'

Supposedly :smile:

If you're planning to use this a lot, it may be worth estimating the electricity costs to run versus something like chromebook.

Unavailable?

ah look its the troll who does nothing but troll others deals while posting nothing of value himself.

Not good for Windows 10 - despite being significantly more powerful than my Atom N450 (which gets a usable DX9ex driver under Win10), the X1270 graphics (based on the X700, not the "x1k" series) served by the 10.2 driver from AMD (officially a Vista, not even Win7 driver) - there is an X1200 series Win7 driver on MS update catalog.
Ok, it MIGHT be possible to push it to Win10 using the media generation install and see how bad the generic driver is, or try pulling the Win7 driver from catalog - my Atom N450 inherited some Win7 drivers into Win10 and they seemed to work.

'77 people have this item in their basket'

77 people need to s**** or get off the pot :stuck_out_tongue:

This is my current work laptop. piece of junk

Anyone have any idea how this is for gaming?

Not bad at all! Could think of plenty of uses for something like this.

**** awful. Play with your phone instead.

Thanks for the heads up.<3

Actually about the same or a tiny bit faster than many current (or end of line at least!) budget laptops - those Celeron and Pentium Nxxxx are all atom derived and very slow compared with a modern Core i3/i5/i7. Very cheap and low power consumption too of course - but not as cheap as this!

The smaller D420 and D430 did iirc. Maybe that's where the confusion has arisen from.

My grandfather got one of these last time there was a similar deal. While good on the surface, a few problems:

It's slow. Not by my standards, by his. Really slow.
It's loud and hot, fan has been cleaned out and thermal paste applied but even so, fans have to be raised above the surface by a few cm all the time.
It struggles to run chrome. Web browsing is noticeably slower than other machines.

But for 35 pounds, it's a very good deal.

Corect as along as they're homework is learning patience. Sadly, times when Internet browser could run on anything are long gone. Try opening Facebook, eBay, then youtube.

That'll be it then. Apologies for any confusion!

OOS

Recently installed Windows 10 64 bit on my (very) old Core 2 Duo D630 making use of the free upgrade. Have Office 2007 installed as well. All works perfectly well for casual browsing (5 tabs on chrome), skyping and word\excel work.

Only downside is laptop does get hot over a period of extended usage, if left on for something like a day. I blame that more on things like Cortana, AntiVirus. Just "sleep" the laptop than "idle".

If you consider minesweeper and solitaire gaming..

Yes although less of a problem these days, as many systems now support 64GB or more and the OS supports 128GB. HDD storage soom people can still max out.

Windows 10 Home 32 bit 4 GB
Windows 10 Home 64 bit 128 GB
Windows 10 Pro 32 bit 4 GB
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit 512 GB
Windows 10 Enterprise/Education 32 bit 4 GB
Windows 10 Enterprise/Education 64 bit 512 GB

My mum still runs a core2duo Dell (Inspiron), only thing I did was pop a cheap £30 128gb SSD in and wow she's happy everything runs instantly boots up super fast, can have multiple programs running, prior to this she had to go boil the kettle make a tea and come back & still have to wait. some of these older machines are a bargain all they need is an SSD.

totally agree! I've now refurbished about 15 old laptops (of which 11 or 12 were C2D) with the addition of SSDs - it's a game changer, makes an old laptop completely viable again

Although its oos, would it have been possible to use the windows 7 license from this laptop on another computer?

Probably not - it's likely the license would be an OEM version (meaning that it's tied to that particular motherboard)

The last time I bought a laptop battery it cost £20 from China, the branded battery's I buy for work cost about £50 to £60. This fact alone makes this a good buy. And to reiterate dubninja, an SSD into any old laptop gives it a fresh lease of life. Clearly no good for gaming or rendering but for browsing, word and excel they are fine.I had no issues using a clean Win 8 install then upgrading to Win 10. Clean install + SSD makes all the difference.

I just got the email from paypal that refund has been issued, no mail from the vendor yet though...... Shame.

Same here and a missed call from them.

LOL what a surprise. Canceled. Those **** always cancel orders.

Also canceled, and yet their website still show's as in stock, what a mickey mouse company.

I've just a phone call from a very pleasant lady, saying they were inundated with orders and had insufficient stock. Sorry. PayPal have refunded me as well. It was worth a try.

I recently extended the life of this exact model by fitting an SSD (£24.99) whilst I appreciate this is almost the same cost as the laptop it's still under £100 for something that is very usable!
The batteries are about this price for OEM on eBay...

had one of these...years of abuse, never let me down...get a dock for it too its great for lectures and work at home with extra monitors ect

Thanks for the heads up.:laughing:

Anyone who missed this well it wasnt a bargain. Mine arrived today. Ok cosmetically but so slowwwwwwww and runs so hotttttt I am worried it will set my house on fire. Yes that hot.