Notes: Refurbished Dell Laptops – Is Low Battery Health an Illusion?

My refurbished adventures continue, thanks to an interesting request from my Dad who was looking for a decently portable laptop for basic tasks on a budget less than $300. I previously purchased and enjoyed my Dell Latitude 5420 very much. While in normal circumstances, such a laptop might have fallen to the $300 mark by now, in the A.I. world we live in today, even a B-grade listed version of the above laptop is at $374 with an A-grade at $449. Considering this is a five-year old laptop with an Intel i5 11th-gen CPU, that’s a bit steep. So, instead, I got stuck in to eBay clearance auctions from Australian Computer Traders, also combining eBay October 15% discount coupons to buy some really gnarly looking B-minus-grade stuff to assemble a decent laptop (or two). It seemed the only practical way to do it. Bidding over a long-weekend, I managed to snag a few partially-tested, perhaps RMA’d laptops for $120-give-or-take. Considering they came with 256GB SSD and 16GB RAM (often in a…

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