Most of those are Roxors (that’s Woot-speak for reconditioned as opposed to new) and/or are new, old stock with two year old GPU’s and out of date processors for a non-competitive prices, IMHO.
Those prices look ehh.
I went with the more expensive one. It’s extravagant, but, every now and then that’s ok.
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It’s a good thing you are an actuary!
After a few weeks of looking around at various deals online, i ordered a Lenovo Slim 7 Pro X 14.5" from Costco for $899. 1TB SSD and 32GB Ram.
Features:
- Microsoft® Windows 11 Home
- AMD Ryzen™ 9 6900HS (8-Core) Processor
- 14.5" Touchscreen IPS sRGB 3K (3072 x 1920) 120Hz Display
- Wi-Fi 6 (2x2/160) Gig+ and Bluetooth® 5.1
- NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050, 4GB
Looking at the reviews, there are quite a few that note early failures (hours to weeks). I have 90 days returns and 2 year warranty from Costco if it happens.
I bought Lenovo legion 5 with 4060 from microcenter open box for 800.
I have had some issues with it though. Games crashing here and there.
My sister’s looking for a laptop and needs advice.
She’s used mostly Mac but hates whatever the Word equivalent is and likes Word. I assume there’s a Mac version. Is it pretty much identical in interface to the Windows version? Is there still a version she can buy outright rather than pay as you go?
The other problem she has with Mac is she says she’s never sure where things are saved. I’m guessing that’s just a training issue. I know in Windows the easiest way to figure it out is to look where SaveAs defaults to. Is there something similar in Mac?
I think her needs have become pretty basic - Word, email, the usual browsing and online banking, etc. I"m not sure what she uses for email. She doesn’t use a gmail account as far as I know, so I’m guessing it’s the Mac equivalent of Outlook.
I"m assuming bottom of the line Mac will be more than sufficient for her. Is there any reason for her to move up other than thinness? She’s considering a Windows machine, but is there a reason to move if the above are addressed?
Oh yeah, also, if she likes Word, does that rule out a Chromebook?
Probably.
She can play around with Google Docs for free to see if that works for her before ruling it out.
Oh. One more question. She apparently has stuff going to iCloud. Other than getting set up with iCloud, will she (or I, as it will probably turn out) need to do more porting of stuff between machines?
Would iCloud get all her stuff to a Windows machine if she decides to go that way?
Maybe one more question. This will probably end up with me having a “new” Macbook Air 2012. Would that be a reasonable platform as a media center? What would it need to run? Right now I’m running kodi on a Frankenstein Windows laptop
Looks like the short answer is “basically yes” although I’ve not tried it myself.
I also recently got myself a Crucial brand 1 TB external SSD hard drive to start backing some things up, in the event of a work computer upgrade down the road (or another opportunity like the recent full-time instructor one at my adjunct school—that I didn’t get—pops up).
I’m guessing that too. Get something with an M1/M2…M4 chip. Those things are obscene for the price.
My marketing/design person I had on ubuntu, known for it’s leanness. Whenever they edited videos, it either took 20 minutes, or crashed. One or the other, sometimes both. I upgraded her processor. I upgraded her ram. I upgraded her video card. Still those two results.
Then I went out and bought the cheapest mac mini I could buy, with an M1 chip. Blazing speed, no more crashes - everything fixed perfectly.
I’m not a mac fanboy, but those m1’s, gosh. Hard pressed to find something in intel/amd that plays catchup with those.