As of the second day:  This Dell latitude dates from 2017 but came looking very clean and well packaged.  The only giveaway to it not being new was one missing screw out of 6 underneath.  Windows installed very smoothly and then I replaced it with linux mint right away.  The only issue is that a couple of the keys (8&9) are unreliable and sometimes need a second press.  I can learn to live with that.