New laptop time.

Fat Trout

Fat Trout

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Bike N Gear said:
I figure with all the sales going on now is the time to replace my aging Dell. It's just too slow since Windows 10.

I need something with a numeric keyboard so that eliminates most if not all tablets. Using it for internet and I tend to keep way too many tabs open. Using it for some work, hence the need for the numeric keyboard.

I have a hard time keeping a laptop for more than 4 years without it just getting too slow. Mine takes a good 10 minute to start up even with almost every program turned off. I'm hoping SSD will be faster. Not sure what spending more than $500 really gets me. My current laptop has plenty of memory, but it's still slow as shit.

Anything I should be looking for? This Lenovo looks good, but not sure.

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I bought a MS surface laptop 2 about 2 years ago on a friends reco and have liked it a lot. Check out the surface laptop series if you have not already.
 
johnbryanpeters

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serviceguy said:
Whatever you do make sure to keep the rubbish under control (internet cache, temporary files, defrag etc.) as well as run some registry cleaner every now and then. I run a five years old, windows 10 laptop at home and have no issues. I also always go for the top Intel processor, 1 or 2 generation from the newest. I would agree with everybody else that SSD makes all the difference (just don’t get tempted by hybrid SSD because they’re worse than mechanical drives).
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Windows 10 defragments behind the scenes... Registry cleaners are not useful.
 
shrpshtr325

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serviceguy said:
Whatever you do make sure to keep the rubbish under control (internet cache, temporary files, defrag etc.) as well as run some registry cleaner every now and then. I run a five years old, windows 10 laptop at home and have no issues. I also always go for the top Intel processor, 1 or 2 generation from the newest. I would agree with everybody else that SSD makes all the difference (just don’t get tempted by hybrid SSD because they’re worse than mechanical drives).
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DO NOT defrag a ssd just wastes write cycles on the flash memory and itndoesnt help anyhtng since no moving parts
 
Magic

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AMD isn't better than Intel, but a lot cheaper for similar performance. The new Ryzen top of the lines are great. I'd go Ryzen in a desktop gaming build, Intel for laptops.

Defrag does nothing for SSDs.

Microsoft Surfaces are junk.
 
Patrick

Patrick

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JimN said:
The OP needs a laptop to run Excel and TurboTax and you nerds are arguing over whether he should go with an AMD or Intel CPU. I love this place 🤣
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so chromebook with a google cloud virtual machine should do it?

drop $700 on a Lenovo and good to go
Think In terms of $10/month for the hardware and don’t look back!!!!
There are versions with the keypad.
 
w_b

w_b

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My wife got a chromebook, and has not looked back. I need to run Solidworks, so not an option.
 
serviceguy

serviceguy

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Whoa, I needed an update on HD health. I guess I was set on my old ways. Sorry for the bad piece of advise.
 
THATmanMANNY

THATmanMANNY

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my FIL is the king of nuking his laptops with bloatware and clicking on ads
he just texted me about a new PC
I SAID CHROMEBOOK CAUSE we can't deal with your BS anymore. About every 6 months he is on phone with someone and gives them access to PC and some personal info and then realizes WTF is going on. The man is unbelievable.
 
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THATmanMANNY said:
my FIL is the king of nuking his laptops with bloatware and clicking on ads
he just texted me about a new PC
I SAID CHROMEBOOK CAUSE we can't deal with your BS anymore. About every 6 months he is on phone with someone and gives them access to PC and some personal info and then realizes WTF is going on. The man is unbelievable.
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Get back to me when he gives away over $70k to make believe friends on the internet. My mom got your FIL beat.
 
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