a refurbished or previously owned laptop
is the best way to score a great machine
for a killer price and one of the best
places to start shopping is actually the
Apple Store online Apple does a great
job of taking order products and
resetting all of the functions as if
it's new out of the box besides coming
from a trusted source you also get the
benefit of their one-year warranty if
any problems sneak up on you now the
prices are pretty reasonable but they're
not rock-bottom for those kinds of deals
you're going to have to do your homework
and be a savvy shopper eBay and
Craigslist are two good places to start
because of sheer volume of products and
competitive pricing our best tip for
shopping for a used laptop on these
sites is to know the exact model number
for what you're looking for know how
much memory it should come with and the
value of different software programs
that may already be installed for
example Photoshop is an expensive
program and if it's already on a laptop
that could dramatically increase the
price in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi
cnet.com for CBS News
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