Setting up was quick and she seems to be able to use it fairly fine.
Colors are fine, I am guessing this is somewhere in the middle of 45 to 72 NTSC. Not the brightest, but we should not expect that at this price. I don't like the layout, but travel seems to be decent. So I picked it up last night and opened it to see how the general build quality was. I can give an update/first hands review when I am done with its setup!Įdit: I posted a small first hands review and wanted to put it here in case more people could see it. I will set it up for her tomorrow and see how it holds up. She is not a tech geek so the screen should be fine. This being a decently new i5 is a cherry on top. She will love this! I just went ahead and bought it. But now with this, I think we got both affordable and usability! She still thought it was a lot, and sure, fine, $550 is a lot for many people, and I am a cheap slickdealer, but I thought it was a great deal.
WALMART REFURBISHED MACBOOK PRO
She didn't want to spend a lot of money so I tried to talk her into the Ideapad 5 Pro from costco about a month ago for $550 as it seemed like a fantastic deal for a premium laptop. But my girlfriend is studying for LSATs and her computer finally crapped out (our old college laptop from 7 years ago). I bought my current laptop from a TigerDirect deal last year that was insane for a premium machine. I am a slickdealer and techgeek for years now. I'm not sure it actually correlates with color but build date instead. Look for the earlier build dates, in my case 10/2021 sticker was good and 3/2022 sticker was bad.
WALMART REFURBISHED MACBOOK UPDATE
The one with the good touchpad also did not have a windows 11 sticker on the outside and did not prompt to update to windows 11 during setup. They also have different wifi cards as someone had mentioned before. In contrast, the one with the bad touchpad that I have has a 3/2022 date on the outer sticker with system info showing 7/2021. I can also confirm that the system info says this one is from 3/2021. This is the one that I just got and the laptop has a touchpad is working great.
I found another one at a different Walmart and as you can see in the pic, the sticker on the outer wrapper has a date. Not scientific, rather based on posts, suggest the Pattern :īlue: issues, including "crappy" touchpad, not upgrading to W11