First, I dond know crap about what makes as good laptop. This is for SWMBO. Her current one is pushing 9 years old. It sucks. I remember Gameboy saying a good was is a used one. That might still be an option. But with Black Friday/Cyber Monday coming up, I'm wondering if I can exploit that?
This is a basic unit. Watching YouTube, photo storage, surfing the internet. She Doesn't need the latest and gr6, just one that will last 3-5 years.
Any recommendations?
SlickDeals does a decent job of showing deals. There are some pretty cheap ones in this list. It's not going to take much of a computer to do what she wants to do.
You might want to consider an external drive for photo backup if you don't use a cloud based service.
https://slickdeals.net/newsearch.php?q=Laptop&searcharea=deals&searchin=first
Always get something with a solid state hard drive. A 9 year old computer with a solid state will feel faster than a brand new one with an old school drive.
Other than that, yeah, anything will do. Get the size/shape/battery life/features that she likes.
SSD, at least 4gb of ram, then whatever personal preferences. Stick with windows 10 if you have the choice between 10 and 11.
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Excellent. The one I have picked out runs 10.
Doesn't really fit Appleseed's criteria, this is for everyone else. Apple's having a big sale via Amazon, Best Buy and maybe some others. Roughly 20% off a Macbook Pro? That's a good chunk of change. It's time to replace the old 2012 unit :)
I picked up a black Friday deal from Walmart - a 14" 4G/64G Gateway for $99. Had really low expectations, but wanted something I could throw it in a backpack so I'd have a full web browser to travel with. I'm really surprised at how good the 14" full HD display is, and it's totally competent as a light weight general purpose system. It's not a high end machine by any means but runs netflix, browses, etc just fine. Also found out today that it has a M2 socket so I bought a 256G SSD for about fifteen bucks on a cyber monday deal which should fix the storage problem. RAM is soldered so there's no upgrade. When we get back from the our winter wandering, I'll see if it wants to run a lightweight linux. For now I've got something that works so I'm not going to mess with it.
They still have some of these left - model # is GWTN141-5.
Looked hard at the Macbook Air - my Macbook Pro recently died - but didn't want to ante up the extra $$ for a laptop that will see a lot of travel abuse.
following as I need something to run tunerstudio. Browsing ability would be nice as well, but tunerstudio and datalogging is the only need.
Best buy has an assortment of chrome books on sale right now. It's basically a giant phone with a keyboard. They won't light your world on fire, but they're perfectly serviceable as laptops. Swmbo got an Asus of some fashion-I've been a long time fan of Asus hardware.
I need to replace my laptop, but I'll probably buy a set of wheels I don't need.
dps214 said:SSD, at least 4gb of ram, then whatever personal preferences. Stick with windows 10 if you have the choice between 10 and 11.
4gb of RAM isn't enough for a Windows 10/11 machine to be pleasant to use on a daily basis, should be looking for at least 8gb of RAM.
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I'm in this post and I'm not sure about how I feel about it
szeis4cookie (Forum Supporter) said:dps214 said:SSD, at least 4gb of ram, then whatever personal preferences. Stick with windows 10 if you have the choice between 10 and 11.
4gb of RAM isn't enough for a Windows 10/11 machine to be pleasant to use on a daily basis, should be looking for at least 8gb of RAM.
I made the mistake of buying a super-cheap laptop to use for tuning, and it's a miserable thing to use overall - to the point where I won't use it if I can help it at all. Instead of saving money with that purchase, I wasted it.
szeis4cookie (Forum Supporter) said:dps214 said:SSD, at least 4gb of ram, then whatever personal preferences. Stick with windows 10 if you have the choice between 10 and 11.
4gb of RAM isn't enough for a Windows 10/11 machine to be pleasant to use on a daily basis, should be looking for at least 8gb of RAM.
I agree, but I've been using this thing for 3 days and haven't seen memory use problems - but I haven't run anything outside of Firefox either. (see post a couple up about the $99 laptop)
We picked up a couple of Lenovo laptops, I7, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD from Staples for $539 each. Check your local stores, I had to drive from Cincy to Lexington to get them. When I first looked a local store had one, next day it was gone. SKU#24526651 if you're interested.
Edit: Good luck finding one, I just checked for a friend and the ones I knew of are gone.
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