Why One Should not Buy Referbished Laptop

There is a bizarre rat race going in the West. Fortune companies are dumping used Laptops having ripped off the RAM sticks and NVme SSDs.  Then, repacing them with minimum RAM and HDD (not inherently bad but very slow adding to the RAM shortage) drives.

Problem is one cannot UPDATE.

RAM prices have gone up the ceiling.

Those guys who buy old laptops and referbished them cannot buy RAM at exorbitant prices and are closing up their workshops.

They have no option but to dump these laptops in Asian markets.

One cam buy several Mini PC for the price of one Laptop and they upgradable. For $300/= dollars one can buy very good Mini PC. Besides, Rasberry Pi 5 has integrated it PCB to a Keyboard and selling around $200/= dollars.