no laptop thread? this can be the laptop thread

[basketballjones]

mine is fucked so im looking or a new one and asked my brother his thoughts

this is the one i showed him
Lenovo 15.6" Laptop - Black (AMD A12-9700P / 1TB HDD / 12GB RAM / Windows 10) - English


he showed me this
Dell Inspiron i7559-763BLK 15.6" Full-HD Gaming Laptop (Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX960M) with Windows 10

thoughts

 

[Bernnie Federko]

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]

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

 

[basketballjones]

im just going to order the dell

 

[Bernnie Federko]

K

 

[basketballjones]

what do you think of it? its got the ssd and a full hd screen

 

[Bernnie Federko]

Checking... Please stand by...

 

[Bernnie Federko]

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

 

[Bernnie Federko]

Let me know if you want something additional info-wise

These are all packing great screens and in the 1100 dollar range

 

[Bernnie Federko]

Now with some links

Dell XPS 13

Results for xps 13 - Best Buy Canada

XPS 13 | Dell Canada



Dell Inspiron 7567Search | Dell United States

Dell Inspiron 7559Dell Search

Lenovo Ideapad 510Results for ideapad 510 - Best Buy Canada

Lenovo Thinkpad E570Lenovo ThinkPad E570 (Core i5, GTX 950M) Notebook Review

Asus Zenbook UX 330ASUS ZenBook UX330 13.3" Laptop - Grey (Intel Core i7-7500U/512GB SSD/16GB RAM/Win 10 Home) -English?

 

[ScottBentley]

I love my ASUS!

 

[basketballjones]

i ordered the dell
1200 buck

 

[ndrwrld]

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]

Has ryzen made it to laptops yet?

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

 

[praktik]

This looks cool

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/10/26/16550908/google-pixelbook-review-chromebook-android-laptop

 

[praktik]

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 ).

Have you heard the good news?

Ryzen mobile is risen

AMD's New Ryzen Mobile APUs Promise Much Higher Performance, Better Battery Life - ExtremeTech

 

[ndrwrld]

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.

 

[Bernnie Federko]

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.

How old is the mobo/processor? Cuz those things eventually go to electronic heaven...

 

[ndrwrld]

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.

 

[SneakyPete]

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]

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.

6 years is old. Build/Buy a fresh machine.

 

[Nemo286]

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]

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]

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]

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.