Should I sell or hold off on selling my HP 55-153w desktop computer? It's great for anyone looking into doing photography. I am just ready to upgrade in the near future. How much should I sell it for? It has 2 drives in it - One 1 TB HDD for storage and one 500 GB SSD for the Windows OS. Also the RAM has been upgraded from 6 GB to 16 GB.
Why do you want to do that, is there something you need that you would get from upgrading?
It's already been announced that Win10 will be supported til Oct. 2025 and looking at some new computers listed on the 'net doesn't yet assure they will all fully support Win11, I'd wait until things settle down on that. Also, you probably won't get much out of it if potential buyers know the same things, won't want the used ones. I have 5 very nice Desktops and 4 Notebooks in the same dilemma that eventually will need replacement. I have a Linux machine as a backup.
Note that even MS can't get their PC Health Check tool right- the one used to tell you (until recently!) whether your PC will meet the requirements.
It's been withdrawn - perhaps for a few months. Does that perhaps reflect a little uncertaintly about the specs needed- although those have been published in considerable detail?
Recently it seemed there might have been reconsideration as to whether 7th generation processors should or should not be rejected.
My system is similar to yours and I am entirely convinced that it would be able to run 11 just fine, if it wasn't for ms sabotoging the install requirements. However, I am quite happy to stay on 10 until I get around to going back to ubuntu, which I have been using on other computers since 2008.
So my recommendation to you, is sit back and enjoy the #$!& show that will happen when 11 goes mainstream and then pick up a cheap refurb in 4 years that will come with 11 pre-installed.
FYI only: there is a way of bypassing the Win 11 installer which has been described on elevenforum e.g. allowing Win 11 to be installed on quite basic machines, but what the longer term consequences of nominally running 'out of spec' may be is not then clear.
I'm therefore not suggesting either that you should or that you need to do that at all of course- and especially as there won't be an official release of Win 11 for some months.
You've another 4 years of Win 10...and could even run it after that...
Use four years to learn how to bypass the requirements.
Or use four years to save money for a new computer that meets the requirements.
My 2 cents: personally, I never upgrade operating systems. Typically I get a new OS when I get new hardware (example - my current machine that I built in January is my first with Windows 10, my previous one was built in 2012 and was running Windows 7 all the time; I still have a laptop running Windows 7 and have absolutely no intention to tinker with the OS there). As to when should you get new hardware, is entirely up to you (and your budget). However, if you do decide to sell, in my experience it's always better to sell parts (on eBay for example) than the whole machine (in the above example, I did sell most of the parts of my 2012 machine and recovered about half of what I spent on it; there is just no way I would be able to sell the whole thing for that much). The reason is simple - any PC becomes outdated the moment you buy it. Half a year later there are new shiny machines, many of them cheaper than what you paid. So why would anyone buy a used PC, unless it's dirt cheap? Parts on the other hand are always in demand by people tinkering with their rigs, upgrading, testing, etc.
You can go to eBay and see what your PCs are worth. You put in the unit, hopefully find one for sale, and then on the left side of the page you can select SOLD ITEMS. This will tell you what they've sold for... and hence... their worth.
If they're older and not worth a lot -- you might hold onto them and use them into the ground, as it were. I find selling off computers around the 3 year mark gives you a decent 'discount' (value) when you go to buy a new better PC. Because PC prices do seem to drop as spec goes up. But if you hold onto something for 4 or more years you might as well keep it.
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