Should check before buying a old or used laptop

October 29, 2022

Business Class Laptop:
1. HP EliteBook
2. Dell Latitude
3. Lenovo ThinkPad
Manufacturing Date & Model
1. Open command prompt. In windows- search on the bottom search bar “cmd”
2. Run the command: wmic bios get serialnumber
3. Go to the HP, Dell or Lenovo support and search the serial number. You will get information
Market price
1. Search for new laptop price (Ex- globalbrand.com.bd)
2. Search for old laptop price (Ex- bdstall.com)
Generation with configuration:
1. Right click on “This PC” icon and select “Properties”
2. Right click on the taskbar and open task manager. Check RAM and Disk (SSD or HDD) capacity
Keyboard Checker
1. https://en.key-test.ru/
HDD or SSD health check:
1. Got to https://www.hdsentinel.com/ and download. After that install the software.
2. Check the performance and health is upper 90%.
Sound and mouth-speaker check
1. Go to sound from setting --> Playback --> Configure --> Test
2. Can be check by audio recording
Camera check
1. Can be check by webcamtests.com
Battery health report:
1. Open command prompt & run the command: powercfg /batteryreport
2. After that you will get a html link. Open the html link in any browser
Laptop hitting check
Display check:
1. HD->768, FHD->1080, 2K->1440, 3K->1824, 4K->2160
2. https://www.eizo.be/monitor-test/
3. If touch screen then check the screen
Check the ports
1. USB and others ports
2. Bluetooth, Wife connection
3. Original adapter (charger)

Habibullah Bahar