A great bargain

[HUMDRUM2000]

Went to a local pawn shop in Jacksonville, Florida
They had an MSI gaming laptop for $300
Apache pro
5th gen i7
16 GB RAM
970m graphics
Awesome find originally posted at over $1200
Always wanted. One but wasn't going to pay that much for it.
Long story short pawn shops have great bargains sometimes
Link to the laptop
https://us.msi.com/Laptop/GE62-Apache-Pro-GTX-970M.html#hero-specification

 

[DookieDraws]

Looks like a nice deal. I'd pay that for it. But I'd thoroughly inspect it before buying it to make sure it works properly. I'd also check the system specs to make sure you're getting what is advertised.

 

[HUMDRUM2000]

Looks like a nice deal. I'd pay that for it. But I'd thoroughly inspect it before buying it to make sure it works properly. I'd also check the system specs to make sure you're getting what is advertised.

Already bought Its great
Nothing Rong with it,boots into Windows less than 10 seconds
Encoded a few home videos in record time.
And plays games on high settings.

 

[DookieDraws]

Looks like a nice deal. I'd pay that for it. But I'd thoroughly inspect it before buying it to make sure it works properly. I'd also check the system specs to make sure you're getting what is advertised.

Already bought Its great
Nothing Rong with it,boots into Windows less than 10 seconds
Encoded a few home videos in record time.
And plays games on high settings.

My bad. Good for you. Looks like a nice laptop. Enjoy that bad boy!

Happy New Year!

 

[USAFRet]

Looks like a nice deal. I'd pay that for it. But I'd thoroughly inspect it before buying it to make sure it works properly. I'd also check the system specs to make sure you're getting what is advertised.

Already bought Its great
Nothing Rong with it,boots into Windows less than 10 seconds
Encoded a few home videos in record time.
And plays games on high settings.

For any used system, especially from a pawnshop, your first move needs to be a full wipe and reinstall of the OS.
For your protection as well as whoever owned it before.

Full wipe and reinstall.

 

[DookieDraws]

Poster above offers great advice about doing a full wipe and reinstall of Windows, something I should mentioned in my earlier post.

You can download all of your drivers and any other software for the laptop from the link you provided to the laptop.

 

[HUMDRUM2000]

That's the first thing I did actually zeroed out the ssd , then I installed windows 10 home.

 

[cbay]

Awesome! Congrats and glad it worked out for you.