Current Events > Is it worth buying a laptop more than $1,000?

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How much would you spend?
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I wouldn't spend more than $400 on a laptop. I never use the 2 I already have
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Mike Xtreme posted...

I wouldn't spend more than $400 on a laptop. I never use the 2 I already have

Do you have a PC?
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Yep
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I spent about $800 on my last laptop and it is pretty good.
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i spent $780 on a "gaming" laptop

it does pretty good for that price range and the games it can play. my only bottleneck is not having a SDD yet for it.
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I'm in the "don't spend too much on a laptop" crowd. If you want power, spend the money on a desktop. If you want a portable laptop, just choose something reasonably priced that works.
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I was going to spend 1500 but just seems like a waste is seems.
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It's a horrible investment just in general dollar sense. But I usually spend 1,000 - 1,300 on a laptop because I use it so much.
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It really depends what it's for.

If you already have a desktop, I'd spring for a cheaper (less than a thousand) ultrabook. They're super slim and the form factor is convenient for things like school or work. I have an asus zenbook and love it.

If you want to game on it, you'd probably have to spend at least a thousand. Just know gaming laptops tend to be heavy bricks with poor battery life and become dated pretty fast. You could build a brand new desktop and buy a barebones laptop for the same budget as a gaming laptop and still get more performance/dollar + a device for portability.

They do have gaming laptops that are much more powerful or otherwise fit in powerful specs in a smaller form factor, but you'd be spending an arm and a leg.
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I was just going to use it to play poker and not do crazy stuff or gaming.
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ConfessPlease posted...

I was just going to use it to play poker and not do crazy stuff or gaming.

If you are just doing that get a cheaper laptop. Unless you are doing something else that requires a lot of CPU or GPU power.
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