I have an older Latitude (e6420) it has an HD+ display, baby Quadro, 16GB, 120GB 850 Evo. Last week on ebay I found an i7 2820QM processor for $110 OBO so I offered 85 shipped and the seller accepted. I got the processor today it took about 5 minutes to install it and now my W7 VM that I use to run Ps CC runs as fast as it would as native. This is the single best sub $90 upgrade I've done to a computer and has convinced me to continue to buying Latitudes. Now I have a 4/8 processor 16GB SSD 802.11AC w/BT4 with an all metal design for a total investment of ~$450.

That there has a lot of TLAs. I don't know anything about Latitudes. Besides price and all-metal what else is good? I just posted here about the new surface book but it is pricey.

I have I5 and Touchscreen and dual core Latitudes.

They are built like tanks. Easy to upgrade. Parts are cheap. The I5 set me back a couple of hundred for it but it came with 8 gig of ram. It is a E4310. It used to be my wifes work laptop I got for her.

Your touchscreen surface book thread? I bought something similar for the wife to replace the Dell and only paid $280.00 US for it with free shipping. They sold out after I bought mine from them. It was Asus 2 in 1 Flip.

Hers is a I5 with 8 gig of ram and Touchscreen and a 1TB hard drive.

My Dell XT2 Touchscreen with SSD and Linux runs circles around hers on boot time and running continuous though. Running Linux-Lite on it.

I have a total of maybe 150 bucks US in it, but it has been maxed out to what it can do hardware wise with SSD hard drive and 8 gig of ram.

Latitudes are just plain too cool. Even my E5500 is OK. I'd wait like one does when new cars come out because of depreciation. No sense in paying new retail prices.

As any member here will tell you that buys their gear from the Dell used parking lot dept of the Dell store.

I went to dell and I could not find refurbished laptops. But that site is really bad to my eyes. Maybe a link to refurbs?
I found an outlet store and I even saw mention of scratch-and-dent but somehow I never found any. Maybe they are sold quickly???

May help or not

http://dellrefurbished.com/laptops

I fix/rebuild/soup up my own

That is my touchscucksreen with 8 gig of ram and ssd drive for under 150 bucks

but you can also check out Link with example

If you aren't looking for the warranty then fleabay is the way to go, there are a ton of lease returns. I got mine from a company in southern Michigan that deal in them. Dell also has a presence on fleabay but they won't ship to my APO.

@rokytnji I will look at that site, is that official Dell site?

@Germany_chris, I checked ebay and was surprised the prices are so low.

Another question. Do these laptops usually come with a legitimate windows install? If I got one that had older windows would I be able to upgrade the windows for free? I know really nothing about windows.

50-50. Many will come with windows installs, but many also will not. They'll say in the auction if they do or not 99% of the time. As for upgrading Windows, Windows 7 is the oldest OS that can upgrade to 10. XP or Vista have no free upgrades. But if it came with a legitimate install of 7, then yes, you could upgrade to 10 for free if you so chose.

Mine came with a Windows 7 Pro key under the battery.

Used laptops from dellrefurbished.com (official Dell site for refurbished laptops), as well as those from big online retailers (such as newegg) should come with a special Windows for Refurbished PCs certificate of authenticity. I'm not sure how this works between Microsoft and the company that refurbishes the laptops, but you end up with a code that is like an OEM Windows code you would get with a new PC. When first booted they should go through the initial setup and prompt for the code. (This info may be outdated, as I haven't bought a used one in a while.)

I would consider dellrefurbished.com "first tier" for used Latitudes - they sell relatively new items with pretty high quality, and higher price. "Second tier" would be the big online retailers (like newegg) - you are taking more of a chance with these, as the quality varies more, but you can get older laptops from them and pay a lot less money. ("Third tier" would be ebay, craigslist, etc - which come with the biggest risk.)

I have a Dell Latitude D610. Now that is a really old box. I got it about 6-1/2 years ago, and according to Dell it originally shipped in 2005. It still runs great, but... after I got it I had to replace the really poor disk drive they shipped in it, and replace the memory, and a few years ago the LCD panel failed and I replaced that. It currently has 4 boot partitions: Windows XP and 3 flavors of Linux.