What should I sell this Durabook for?

Appletax

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Got a Durabook S15AB (G2) laptop that I want to sell, but am unsure of what price to start it out at as there's no helpful info that I can find online such as eBay listings.

i5-8265U, integrated GPU, 16GB DDR4, 512GB SSD [SATA] 15.6" 1080p display, Win 11 Pro, battery health 79.2%. Under factory warranty until 5/8/2025.

The only bad thing is that the touchpad is very slow. It takes four long finger swipes to get from one side of the screen to the other. Have it set to max speed.

Pics of the unit:

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Are you sure this machine is completely unmanaged? Have you tried booting from optical media and USB boot devices? These types of devices are usually very tightly controlled. So access to BIOS and alternate boot devices are intentionally restricted. If the original "owner" didn't unlock it not much you can do.
 
Markverhyden said:
Are you sure this machine is completely unmanaged? Have you tried booting from optical media and USB boot devices? These types of devices are usually very tightly controlled. So access to BIOS and alternate boot devices are intentionally restricted. If the original "owner" didn't unlock it not much you can do.
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I have full access to the BIOS. I have four of these Durabooks with the other three having non-Win 11-compatible CPUs. I got them from a guy I've bought many computers from that came from his organization. Should be good. I was able to install a fresh copy of Windows on all.

I wonder what I can do to make the touchpad move much faster.
 
lan101 said:
www.ebay.com

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There's one with no hard drive...only close one I could see on there as far as specs.
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I think I will start mine out at $300 with hopes of getting at least $250. Mine has a better CPU, SSD, and AC adapter. It's ready to go.
 
Appletax said:
I have full access to the BIOS. I have four of these Durabooks with the other three having non-Win 11-compatible CPUs. I got them from a guy I've bought many computers from that came from his organization. Should be good. I was able to install a fresh copy of Windows on all.

I wonder what I can do to make the touchpad move much faster.
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Is it fast or slow or not traversing the amount of distance expected with a full movement across the touchpad? If you already haven't done so clean the touchpad, go into BIOS and do a reset to default, upgrade BIOS if possible, boot from a linux distro and see what happens. Did you load the OEM driver for the touchpad? I'm guessing your not getting proper movement which sounds like a cal issue.

www.durabook.com

Downloads - DURABOOK

www.durabook.com www.durabook.com
 
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Appletax said:
I think I will start mine out at $300 with hopes of getting at least $250. Mine has a better CPU, SSD, and AC adapter. It's ready to go.
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That's about what I was thinking...hopefully the touchpad speed issue can get solved.
 
Markverhyden said:
Is it fast or slow or not traversing the amount of distance expected with a full movement across the touchpad? If you already haven't done so clean the touchpad, go into BIOS and do a reset to default, upgrade BIOS if possible, boot from a linux distro and see what happens. Did you load the OEM driver for the touchpad? I'm guessing your not getting proper movement which sounds like a cal issue.

www.durabook.com

Downloads - DURABOOK

www.durabook.com www.durabook.com
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It's slow to move the cursor. I did clean the touchpad and also tried Linux Live, which had no touchpad speed issues. The OEM Synaptics driver was installed. The solution was to uninstall the OEM driver and use the generic Microsoft driver. Thank you!
 
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As much as people say not to use MS drivers, it is amazing how often they fix issues.
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Interesting. I don't think I've ever stuck with M$ drivers before as I always use the OEM drivers. When I nuke and pave, I set up the PC in offline mode and manually install the drivers rather than having Win Update handle it all. It's cool that this worked, but odd that the OEM drivers designed for this touchpad don't work well. I wonder if they used to at one point such as when the touchpad was brand new.
 
Depending on the device MS drivers either work fine or screw things up mostly I find video drivers and printer drivers from MS to be the problem ones from MS.
 
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