I bought a used Dell Precision M6800 [testing thread
here] from a... peculiar seller (brick and mortar store, no refund for change of mind) that so far has shown to have a different vocabulary from the rest of the people I know. [see footnote]
In particular the 240W power supply came as a 180W power supply, which might as well be original (stays cool, seems reasonable good quality) but I have to swap it with the real 240W one. So, I am asking, since my gut feeling tell me this 'peculiar' guy will try to give an 'alternatively original' product, what should I be looking for to assess that the product is genuine? Or, what are the tale-telling signs of a fake one?
It would help if someone had an M6800 with the real thing, so that I could see the label, the stickers and the hologram if present (the one 180W one has an hologram that says "original", is this what Dell does?). The weight can be a sign?
I am looking for other signs that could be spotted in the store and then later at home (can I scope the output to try see some sign of the switching frequency? Sniff the position of inside components with some field probe?)
[note]
This laptop was guaranteed to have a
back-lit keyboard, and came with stickers on the international keys
Should have had a new battery, it was the original
2015 battery with 60% capacity; the
replacement is allegedly manufactured in 2023 but has 40% capacity left
Should have had two new SSD but
one of them has 12 thousand hours (and the peculiar guy tried to deny they were supposed to be both new, until I showed him his own webpage...)
And then the
power supply, which is a potential fire starter...
Yes, I know what you are thinking. But this was supposed to be an ex-leasing dealer and a friend of mine bought one and, apart from the nonexistent battery life, his was not such a nightmare.
(Yes, I do look like a sucker - I could be the love child of Mr. Bean - the character, not the actor - and Steve Bannon 15 days short of a shower)