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Bernnie Federko

Bernnie Federko

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What's your budget?

I would suggest forgoing storage size in favour of a solid state drive, getting lots of RAM, and a touch screen...

Want me to source a slaptop, let me know
 
basketballjones

basketballjones

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i have a ssd in my old hp, just got it a few months ago. would put the old drive in the old laptop and the ssd into whichever laptop i end up with
if it doesnt have one
the dell has an ssd and i dont mind the price
 
Bernnie Federko

Bernnie Federko

TRIBE Member
Check out these:

· Dell XPS 13

· Dell Inspiron 7567

· Dell Inspiron 7559

· Lenovo Ideapad 510

· Lenovo Thinkpad E570

· Dell Latitude 14

· Asus Zenbook UX 330
 
ndrwrld

ndrwrld

TRIBE Member
should i stay away from AMD ?
( seems the discussion is the i5 or the AMD 9420 ).
i only want to spend about 400.
i want 8 gig RAM. HD size really isn't that important.
doesn't need to be a beast, but needs to be faster than my oldish i7 ( 1.6 ghz ).
 
praktik

praktik

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Has ryzen made it to laptops yet?

I know amd has great options for desktop, which must be making their way to laptops eventually!
 
ndrwrld

ndrwrld

TRIBE Member
i have an HP Pavillion DV6.
i7.
1.6
8 gig RAM
500 gb 7200 rpm sata hd.
slow as fuck.

will putting in a new SSD help ? or should i shop for a new lappy.
 
ndrwrld

ndrwrld

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2011, from what i can tell. last year, i applied new heat sink stuff to the processor. doesn't overheat anymore, cuz when i had it apart, i cleaned everything out.

edit...a friend is sending me a 160 GB Intel SSD, 2 years old. For Free.
I think it makes sense for me to buy a new lappy with a processor far faster than the i7 1.6 i have now, and spend the coin to upgrade the RAM to the highest i can for the lappy.
 
S

SneakyPete

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SSD will help with load time.

If you're not playing games an old i7+8GB ram+SSD should be fast enough for most applications. If it's slow you probably got too much garbage on your system. Do a fresh install of Windows.
 
Bernnie Federko

Bernnie Federko

TRIBE Member
ndrwrld said:
2011, from what i can tell. last year, i applied new heat sink stuff to the processor. doesn't overheat anymore, cuz when i had it apart, i cleaned everything out.

edit...a friend is sending me a 160 GB Intel SSD, 2 years old. For Free.
I think it makes sense for me to buy a new lappy with a processor far faster than the i7 1.6 i have now, and spend the coin to upgrade the RAM to the highest i can for the lappy.
Click to expand...
6 years is old. Build/Buy a fresh machine.
 
Nemo286

Nemo286

New Member
Try ASUS. they're Taiwanese, not Chinese, don't worry! I mean I've used ASUS laptop for years and it still perform strong.
 
ndrwrld

ndrwrld

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FB on Chrome was slowing down my entire system.
I now only use FB on Firefox, with a dedicated monitor...problem solved.
Lappy is still quite quick...but i'll still invest in a new one, and install the new SSD drive that's en route.
 
ndrwrld

ndrwrld

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since i put FB dedicated from Chrome to Firefox, my laptop has been screaming fast.
i knew Chrome was a bit of a pig on power, but i never knew how much.
Now i hooked up an extra monitor, and voila...fast lappy is back.

Chrome and FB do not mix...kinda like Ketamine and JamesM.
 
ScottBentley

ScottBentley

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This is kinda random, but anyone ever replace an hdmi port on their laptop? How much does it cost? Mine's not working right on my 4 year old ASUS and I'm debating whether to get it repaired or buy a new one. The laptop still works great otherwise.
 
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