Hard Core Shopping: Best Laptop Buy For The Buck SSD ?
14" is fine as long as the downsizing buys performance or quality. Yep, I'm a novice. No gaming. Internet mostly.
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Mex,
Do yourself a HUGE favor..
Stay clear of all of those "discounters", AMAZON, WALMART, used, refurbs, CHROMEBOOKS.
Everyone gravitates towards the cheapest price, in laptops especially this is a very bad thing to do..
You asked for 14" that is small considering it will be a widescreen 16-9 or 16-10 format so be aware of that.
Walmart HP PCs are specially built for Walmart, HP will not recognize them for direct warranty and third party Techs have difficult time getting parts from HP for Walmart HPs..
Most manufacturers will shy away from warranty work when not sold through a legit reseller like Amazon so keep that in mind.
Had to buy a laptop for DD a couple of years ago when she started College.
I ended up buying a Dell Laptop DIRECTLY FROM DELL, main reason was my company offers a discount program to employees since the company buys a lot of laptops from Dell..
I also discovered that buying directly from Dell allowed me to CHOOSE Win10 PRO rather than the HOME version you get stuck with when buying ready built laptops from other retailers.
Win10 Pro includes one special program which was removed from the HOME version called Regedit.. That is the registry editor which allows one to disable a lot of the MS spyware junk which will use a lot of your Internet connection.
Win10 Pro also allowed me to install a third party program called O&O Shutup that allowed me to stomp on more spyware, customize the Windows updates (IE TURN OFF).
I NEEDED a stable PC platform that didn't randomly turn into a doorstop due to no quality control of Windows updates for my DD to do schoolwork.
My suggestion while not as cheap as others, is a Inspiron 14 5000 model laptop, 14" monitor, i7 multicore (4 cores) Processor at 3.9Ghz, 8 GB Ram, 512 GB NVMe SSD drive.
For $799, add in the Win10 PRO for $60 more.
That will be a laptop that can handle pretty much anything you can throw at it and will be much faster than your Internet..
You can find that PC HERE
You could go with a i5 to lower the cost but you will sacrifice a lot of speed in doing so.. That i7 really flies, so far no complaints from DD and she is working a lot with Adobe Illustrator..
One other thing, what ever laptop you buy, the processor setting NEEDS changed from "managed" to MAX, often the managed power setting will be defaulted to 5% of the processor speed which makes it a slug to say the least.. They do that to increase your battery life but at the cost of the speed..
Do yourself a HUGE favor..
Stay clear of all of those "discounters", AMAZON, WALMART, used, refurbs, CHROMEBOOKS.
Everyone gravitates towards the cheapest price, in laptops especially this is a very bad thing to do..
You asked for 14" that is small considering it will be a widescreen 16-9 or 16-10 format so be aware of that.
Walmart HP PCs are specially built for Walmart, HP will not recognize them for direct warranty and third party Techs have difficult time getting parts from HP for Walmart HPs..
Most manufacturers will shy away from warranty work when not sold through a legit reseller like Amazon so keep that in mind.
Had to buy a laptop for DD a couple of years ago when she started College.
I ended up buying a Dell Laptop DIRECTLY FROM DELL, main reason was my company offers a discount program to employees since the company buys a lot of laptops from Dell..
I also discovered that buying directly from Dell allowed me to CHOOSE Win10 PRO rather than the HOME version you get stuck with when buying ready built laptops from other retailers.
Win10 Pro includes one special program which was removed from the HOME version called Regedit.. That is the registry editor which allows one to disable a lot of the MS spyware junk which will use a lot of your Internet connection.
Win10 Pro also allowed me to install a third party program called O&O Shutup that allowed me to stomp on more spyware, customize the Windows updates (IE TURN OFF).
I NEEDED a stable PC platform that didn't randomly turn into a doorstop due to no quality control of Windows updates for my DD to do schoolwork.
My suggestion while not as cheap as others, is a Inspiron 14 5000 model laptop, 14" monitor, i7 multicore (4 cores) Processor at 3.9Ghz, 8 GB Ram, 512 GB NVMe SSD drive.
For $799, add in the Win10 PRO for $60 more.
That will be a laptop that can handle pretty much anything you can throw at it and will be much faster than your Internet..
You can find that PC HERE
You could go with a i5 to lower the cost but you will sacrifice a lot of speed in doing so.. That i7 really flies, so far no complaints from DD and she is working a lot with Adobe Illustrator..
One other thing, what ever laptop you buy, the processor setting NEEDS changed from "managed" to MAX, often the managed power setting will be defaulted to 5% of the processor speed which makes it a slug to say the least.. They do that to increase your battery life but at the cost of the speed..
