How to distinguish IBM laptops, parallel imports from refurbished machines

Parallel notebooks generally do not have invoices for the place of sale, so the biggest difficulty for notebooks is the warranty problem.

The outer box of licensed notebooks is marked in Chinese Simplified, while parallel notebooks are generally marked in English or Chinese Traditional.

Look at the random information of the notebook.

Such as manuals, or other accessories. The licensed accessories are very complete, if the accessories are not complete, it may be parallel imports.

Look at the machine's operating system.

Licensed notebooks use Microsoft's Chinese Simplified Chinese version, parallel goods notebooks use non-Chinese Simplified Chinese version, even if some profiteers install the Chinese Simplified Chinese version for parallel goods notebooks, but there are still some hidden dangers in use.

Check the serial number on the machine.

This point, and the more critical point, is to see if the outer box of the laptop, the certificate of warranty (COA), and the machine serial number at the bottom of the machine are the same, if they are inconsistent, then there must be a problem.

Look at China's "3C" certification.

All licensed laptops imported from regular channels will have a "3C" logo on the back of the fuselage, which is issued after the state has passed strict inspections on the quality of imported products, and parallel imports naturally do not have this logo.

Oh, I know this, laugh to death, this is **, it's the easiest and fastest way, I'm going to let you do the following before telling you.

1. No matter what kind of goods, first ensure that it is a whole box and a whole machine.

The serial number of the box and the manual, the battery, and the back of the machine should match, and there is no trace of the screw being opened.

Then tell you the easiest way.

Enter the serial number of your computer here, OK, the official website will tell you the serial number of all your parts and where this computer is sold, hehe, it's very simple, it's impossible for your seller to have no network cable, hehe.

In addition, I will quietly tell you the difference between them, the code name of the Mercury Star is different, if you buy licensed goods to go to the domestic Lenovo official inspection, parallel imports, you can find a forum that sells parallel goods to find out.

Texting is needed!

Open the case to see if each accessory is the original machine (it shouldn't be difficult) This is a more physical and conservative approach

It's generally hard to distinguish teaches you that one isn't necessarily accurate.

1. Carefully look at the middle cross part of the nail in the casing below to see if there is white, that is, to make sure that the nail has not been removed.

2. There is also to check whether the model is consistent with the current configuration, 3. Enter the BIOS at boot, and check whether the following machine number is consistent with the label behind 4.

And then it was left to fate, Amen.

Method 1: Check the serial number of the notebook, by checking the serial number of the notebook, we can understand the specific situation of the notebook. Generally, the serial number of the notebook is located on the label at the bottom of it (as shown in Figure 3), and we need to carefully check whether it has been altered or repasted.

Go to the motherboard BIOS settings of the laptop when you boot it, check whether the serial number in the BIOS is the same as the serial number on the body and check the serial number on the box, if these numbers are not the same, it means that the laptop may be refurbished. In addition, we can also use the serial number to query the specific factory time of the notebook on the ** of the notebook.

Method 2: Check the battery, generally the battery of a new laptop should be charged no more than 3 times, and the battery level should not be higher than 3%. If the battery is too high or has been charged and discharged too many times, it means that the laptop has been used for a long time and can be suspected of being refurbished.

It should be noted that the merchant may use the excuse that the notebook has been tried by others, but under normal circumstances, the merchant will not use the battery to drive the laptop, but directly use the external power supply, so this excuse obviously does not stand up to scrutiny.

Method 3: Check the random accessories, it is necessary to check all the random accessories of the notebook, these accessories mainly include driver discs, manuals, warranty cards, etc., because it is difficult for merchants to collect these accessories completely when refurbishing laptops, especially product manuals, which are generally printed by themselves and are easy to identify. If these accessories are not complete, the notebook may be refurbished.

Some models of IBM notebooks do not seem to come with a driver CD, only a recovery CD, which is a special thing, but the warranty card and manual are complete, please treat them differently.

1. Appearance: if parallel goods are"Japanese licensed", the keyboard is Japanese, and most of the other countries are English. Licensed goods are available in Chinese.

2. Nameplate: The nameplate of parallel goods is in local characters. The licensed goods are in Chinese.

3. Operating system and driver.

First of all, the pre-installed operating system is not Chinese. Drivers too.

Sometimes"Parallel imports"Merchants will also find Chinese operating systems and drivers, but they cannot be compared with the original factory.

4. Warranty and after-sales service.

Since parallel goods are not sold in China, they cannot be guaranteed. Unless it is a global warranty.

5. Attachments. For example, power plugs, because parallel goods are designed and manufactured in accordance with foreign specifications, there will be a situation where they cannot be plugged into the socket. Some of the old parallel goods have different voltage power configurators, but fortunately today's laptops are generally 100 240V AC voltage adaptive power configurators.

Write down the code behind the host, because there are many lines, so you'd better copy them all, hit **800-810-1818, operate according to the prompts, and you can check it!

All three serial numbers are the same (on the package).

Mainly the code behind the machine, you can type**query Refer to the following information.