Xotic laptop
Has anyone heard good or bad things about XOTIC PC in Nebraska? I've been looking to upgrade my laptop - and keep seeing HD as storage and I'd prefer SSD as storage. This is an American company th...
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Don't forget that a "Lifetime Warranty" is only as good as the lifetime of the company offering the warranty. The company looks to have been around for a few years, but the laptop/PC market is shrinking due to the popularity of tablets, so as the market shrinks so will the vendors.
Personally I'd stay away from anything offered by HSN or QVC, that stuff always looks to be second tier quality.
You can save a bit by using an HD for storage, an SSD for storage is still pretty expensive when you're talking a terabyte or so. And if you're working with RAW photos you're going to eat up a lot of space. I'd look at a 256 gig SSD for the OS, 16 gig of memory, and at least a 500 gig HD. And the speed of access for storage isn't as much of a bottleneck as the OS drive.
Personally I'd stay away from anything offered by HSN or QVC, that stuff always looks to be second tier quality.
You can save a bit by using an HD for storage, an SSD for storage is still pretty expensive when you're talking a terabyte or so. And if you're working with RAW photos you're going to eat up a lot of space. I'd look at a 256 gig SSD for the OS, 16 gig of memory, and at least a 500 gig HD. And the speed of access for storage isn't as much of a bottleneck as the OS drive.
