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  • Toonces
    PCHF Member
    • Jan 2023
    • 2

    #1

    How should I part this laptop out...selling

    I’ve got a Lenovo E 535 ThinkPad laptop I hardly ever used and kept around as a backup. Recently I went to boot it up and after charging nothing happened. I took it to a professional computer repair guy and he said it’s toast; said something about a known problem with the motherboard. He suggested I just part it out or sell it outright.

    So I’m wondering…what’s the best way to sell this carcass of a computer to get the most out of it? Should I take the memory, hard drive or anything else out and sell them separately, or should I just let the whole thing go as one item?

    Also, could anyone translate this line found on a sticker on the back that denotes the computer’s stats…

    Lenovo E535 A10 - 4600m 2.3/6/750/DR/15.6/W7P-W8

    Only thing I get out of that is a 15.6" monitor.

    Also, I’m not sure how to describe this memory if I were to sell it. Can anyone translate this sticker and let me know how I should advertise this memory? Thanks.

    [ATTACH type=“full”]11416[/ATTACH]

    [ATTACH type=“full”]11417[/ATTACH]
  • PeterOz
    PCHF Technical Response Team
    • Mar 2021
    • 4191

    #2
    Asking Here How should I part this laptop out...selling - Internal Hardware
    and here Question - How should I part this laptop out...selling | Tom's Hardware Forum

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    • Bruce
      PCHF Moderator
      • Oct 2017
      • 10702

      #3
      your options are;
      [ul]
      [li]fix it and use it[/li][li]fix it and sell it[/li][li]sell it as is[/li][li]remove the drive and put it into an external enclosure and use as a backup device[/li][li]remove the memory and sell for, what, $20/stick???[/li][/ul]
      any potential buyer would need to have skin in the game or have an idea of what it would cost to fix. so you could only ask a very small amount, even then, I certainly wouldn’t buy an old unit, known to not work, and no idea what the issues are - and I do have skin in the game.

      the Edge 535 came out when, 8-10 years ago?
      if so, no-one is going to want it sadly.
      we simply live in a disposable society.

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