Poll of the Day > Computer wizards, help me choose a laptop please and thank you

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My current laptop is a low tier one from 2014 and it 100% is circling the drain. Staples has a sale on plus a promotion for $50 off any purchase of $500 or more for teachers, now's probably a good time. I've narrowed it down to two.

Prices are in Canadian dollars so any Americans reading this can just pretend the prices in US dollars are like 25% lower than what you see here.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/8/AAM4lZAADqeE.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/9/AAM4lZAADqeF.jpg

I'll help your MOM choose a laptop please and thank you lmao

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I'd probably go with the first one.
More ports, better battery

Straughan posted...

I'll help your MOM choose a laptop please and thank you lmao

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I'd probably go with the first one.

Lmao nice

And yeah I'm leaning towards that one, even with the slightly higher price. Acer is pretty mediocre but that's what my old one is, and it's lasted 8 years.

The processor and the screen also sound much better on that one. I use my laptop outside a lot, my old screen is miserable outdoors (especially compared to my phone screen). I can't find much info about the Lenovo at all, but one of the common praises about this Acer is that it has a great screen.

I've done more research, a very common complaint about the Acer is that after about a year the battery dies. Seems very common. I'll continue to mull this over.

you have to use the key to get out of the dungeon

Here's another Lenovo to compete with the first one. It has a different processor and twice as much SSD storage.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/3/AAM4lZAADqfP.jpg

Look at reviews for battery life 200%

Also, how weak is that CPU?

Yellow posted...

Look at reviews for battery life 200%

Also, how weak is that CPU?

From what I've been able to research, for these processor models, the i5 is the best of these 3, while the i3 and the Ryzen 3 are closely matched, with the i3 likely a bit better.

Yeah, the CPU looks pretty good. The battery life is solid. Just don't expect to play anything more than a 2D game on it. If you bump up the price to $1000 that's when you start seeing laptops that can play games well, but I like the one you chose. I have a similar one and I like it.

I kind of regret not buying the $1000 GPU model of my laptop because I like to bring it with me to play games with people.

faramir77 posted...

Here's another Lenovo to compete with the first one. It has a different processor and twice as much SSD storage.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/3/AAM4lZAADqfP.jpg

That looks decent, get yourself a HDMI cable and you can plug it into any screen, might want to get a USB hub or two if you plan on plugging more then your mouse and keyboard in. may want an external harddrive if you don't have cloud storage already.

Yeah that third one I posted is probably the way to go for me. I'll think about it more tomorrow. I have a desktop PC already so there's no rush, but a new laptop would be nice. I just want it to be reasonably quick and last a long time.

I don't need anything super high end, but I also don't want a piece of shit that barely runs.

go with the ryzen

it's better in every way to the other two