laptop question
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get a macbook air M1 (2020) off of backmarket and never look back.
I use mine for heavy duty apps (CAD) and it performs as well if not better than a $4000 dell company machine.
I use mine for heavy duty apps (CAD) and it performs as well if not better than a $4000 dell company machine.
reasonable prices? check out ebay. I got a HP 17t-cn300 17.3" HD+ Intel Processor N200 1.0 GHz 8GB 256GB SSD W11H Laptop for $176 a couple months ago.
Don't waste a bunch of money on a tool that you'll break, lose, or gets stolen. That money's better spent on beer and hussies.
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HP has pretty good laptops and runs deals frequently. Been pretty happy with the ones I've bought and the ones we have bought at work have been some of the best ones over the years compared to the Dell Lenovo and Microsoft Surface we have had.
Need to decide how big of a screen you want and do you want the keyboard to have a 10 key. Also I would recommend going with at least an Intel i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 processor or faster. Dont go lower than that IMO, the cheapest laptops usually dont have very good processors.
Need to decide how big of a screen you want and do you want the keyboard to have a 10 key. Also I would recommend going with at least an Intel i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 processor or faster. Dont go lower than that IMO, the cheapest laptops usually dont have very good processors.
Thanks for the advice. I am 60 years old. My beer drinking hussies chasing are well behind me. I will take your advice though. HAHAHA
If you want something to last more than 4 years don't get an HP .I tend to be hard on laptops and hav3 had good luck wi5h Lenovo.
Not sure, I got the 16gb one, I don't game or do anything other than the CAD (draftsight/autocad) that needs it.
It runs that CAD software much more reliably than the Dell with the big processor, big NVIDA graphics card, and 32gb. The Dell does run it better *when* everything is in proper order, ie proper (not the latest...) updates. But the difference isn't much, plus more often than not its *not* in proper order so its just more convenient to use the mac, because I know all I need to do to make it work is turn it on. Versus spending a few hours researching and rolling back problematic updates.
I am amazed at just how rough some people are on laptops. I do hardware support at work and people bring some of the most disgusting or banged up laptops in and wonder why they are having problems. It's not hard to take care of a laptop if you use some care with it. I had one in Friday that had cat hair embedded into the keys. I made a v line to the bathroom to wash my hands when I was done it was so gross. Have opened up some and found the cpu fans caked in dust and animal hair and the user wonders why it's been running hot. Or the best ones are saying something is messed up.with the screen and its obvious it was dropped or closed something in the lid that damaged the LCD. Or "I don't know why it won't turn on" and as soon as you pop the back off it you can tell it was spilled on.
I will admit the Lenovo laptops are usually built like tanks but that won't matter for some for as rough shape I've seen some come in looking. Seen people destroy about any model within months because they just don't use care with them.
No, MacBooks are as is. Most laptops are these days (unless you want to go crazy and tear it all apart) but MacBooks have been for like a decade.
thats what i figured. especially these airs... my 2013 macbook was easily upgradable and a workhorse
