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Laptops have gotten cheap
« on: January 12, 2018, 07:19:35 AM »
Current laptop is about 6 years old so thought I would upgrade to a new one with this paypal credit I haven't used in a couple of years.  Browsed eBay and WOW...  the prices have fallen.  8g RAM 1T SSD, etc..   for under $350.00  New.

Highly doubt you can use it for gaming (which I don't anyway) or for running graphic intense programs (animation, etc..) but the only thing I use my current one for is taking it on long plane rides when I am flying to Europe or Asia and using Lightroom for my photography files. 

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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2018, 07:21:37 AM »
Wait -are you saying that there's more on the internet than GetBig and Porn?
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2018, 07:22:29 AM »
My parents paid ~$350 for a laptop back in 2014 and it only had 2g ram. Thing couldn't even play Brutal DooM or Counterstrike 1.6 smoothly.
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2018, 07:54:35 AM »
Quote from: sceagacros on January 12, 2018, 07:21:37 AM
Wait -are you saying that there's more on the internet than GetBig and Porn?

So I heard.  Prolly just a dirty rumor though.
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2018, 09:46:59 AM »
I don't understand how 5 years ago, 4gb ram was plenty to run photoshop and games etc and now you need minimum 60 to do anything.

Marketing gimmick?
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2018, 10:16:50 AM »
Quote from: visualizeperfection on January 12, 2018, 09:46:59 AM
I don't understand how 5 years ago, 4gb ram was plenty to run photoshop and games etc and now you need minimum 60 to do anything.

Marketing gimmick?

LOL!   Watch this be my luck.  I have 4 gigs in the old laptop and it is fine. 

I just upgraded my Dell from 6 gigs to 16 gigs two months ago.  Yeah... that was weird but they loaded it when I bought it a couple years ago with a 2 gig and 4 gig set up.  To be honest, I don't see a difference at all.  The memory was cheap.  $189 for two sticks 8 gig each.   Would have been a little cheaper if I was doing it with a tower, but this was one of those All-In-Ones where it basically is a big monitor with the components mounted inside.  They only use laptop memory for these types.
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2018, 10:18:00 AM »
Just looked at laptops online with BestBuy.... the prices there are NOT all that great.  Not sure how they can sell anything at those prices.
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2018, 10:33:43 AM »
These laptops are chocked FULL of goddamned bloatware bullshit that will slow down the software that you do want.

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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2018, 10:38:15 AM »
i think they've gone up over the last few years, anything cheap they try to fk you by putting a stupidly small hard drive with less storage than a mid range sd card.
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2018, 11:10:47 AM »
The Alienware stuff costs more, but you can easily upgrade to the latest and greatest hardware that becomes available.  If you are a hardcore gamer or into VR, this is the way to go.
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2018, 11:12:43 AM »
Quote from: Conker on January 12, 2018, 10:38:15 AM
i think they've gone up over the last few years, anything cheap they try to fk you by putting a stupidly small hard drive with less storage than a mid range sd card.

The ones I saw had a 1T SSD in them. 
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2018, 01:09:07 PM »
Quote from: Board_SHERIF on January 12, 2018, 11:35:43 AM
neither have 1 TB SSD hard drive.

You are correct.  It is HDD drive.   I just grabbed the links from the first two that popped up.  But I did see some with SSD.  Not sure which people prefer nowdays.
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Re: Laptops have gotten cheap
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2018, 01:32:42 PM »
Quote from: Nether Animal on January 12, 2018, 07:22:29 AM
My parents paid ~$350 for a laptop back in 2014 and it only had 2g ram. Thing couldn't even play Brutal DooM or Counterstrike 1.6 smoothly.

Why would youre parents want to play those games? Weird!
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