I gave you information about buying used or refurbished, but you certainly want to shop carefully. As prices come down, it doesn't take much to make up the difference between the price of an older, slower refurbished and a new fast and warranted new computer.

Dell has an auction site where they sell their reconditoned computers (I'm guessing from leases or if people trade them in somehow). I've noticed that some of them come out costing almost as much as a new one.

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