There’s a sweet spot between overpaying for a flashy machine and settling for a sluggish budget buy. Right now, this refurbished Dell Inspiron Plus 7630 (2023) is sitting in that zone, on sale for $739.99 on StackSocial (versus $999 on Amazon). It’s been given a Grade “A” rating, which means you’ll get a laptop that looks nearly brand new—maybe a faint scuff here or there. Plus, it ships free across the contiguous US and has a one-year parts and labor warranty.
It runs on an Intel Core i7-13700H chip, a high-performance 14-core processor typically found in laptops built for content creation and multitasking. Pair that with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD, and you’re not going to struggle with heavy spreadsheets, streaming, or having 25 tabs open at once. The 16-inch 2.5K screen (2560 x 1600) adds a lot of visual real estate with sharp details and passably vivid colors (according to this PCMag review), although it’s not a touchscreen. And while the Intel Iris Xe Graphics can’t handle AAA gaming, it’ll do the job for casual editing and streaming.
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