Remember, electronics manufacturing in 90s and 2000s suffered hugely from quality whiplash from ballooning offshoring and several environmental regulations they hadn’t found replacements for which they understood how to manufacture with yet.
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Another “refurb” purchase, another brand-new product. $130 ultrabook dual-core 2.2GHz boost, Win10, SSD, 4GB RAM. Runs terribly out of box but only due to HP being Satan. Doing a Defender Device Refresh to load a clean MSFT image on it. New internet browsing/kitchen/test laptop.pic.twitter.com/Fddoqe2FYD
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How do you do the fresh install? I need to get a cheap laptop for one of my kids and win box seems likely, but almost certainly will want a fresh, clean install.
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Cool, thx. I've not used Windows in years, haven't kept up, didn't know that was a thing.
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If the laptop was built for windows 10 the product key is in the bios. Download iso from Microsoft, install, and it is activated and legit. My favorite thing about Win 10.
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Wait, how does that work? It's BIOS volatile memory? What happens of the BIOS battery dies? Does even BIOS still use batteries?
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If you buy a Win10 machine the license is in non-volatile memory burned in at the factory to the motherboard. It’s accessed by Windows 10 during installation. You will never have to type in a license key ever again.
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In the past, Windows OEM preactivation relied on a signed file in the installation media matching a string in the BIOS. However, now all Wn10 machines can be reinstalled with the same free Microsoft Media Creation Tool. Makes USB sticks or burnable CDs for free.
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For various complicated reasons, the default installations of Windows on most computers run at a fraction of their real speed compared to a clean reload. This $130 refurb laptop with a 32GB SSD and Win10 clean install runs better than most $700 Walmart laptops out of the box.
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Hardly complicated. The OEM got kickbacks for preinstalling malware.
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