Current Events > My dad wants some help getting a new laptop. Nothing fancy.

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My dad uses his current laptop (I think it's a Chromebook, but I'm not sure) both for personal use and as the main computer for his upholstery business. Which means if he wants to leave the shop early on a given day, he has to leave his laptop at work so that the other guys can use it for shop stuff like ordering fabrics or emailing customers the rest of the day. Understandably frustrating.

So he asked me to help him find a decent budget laptop that he can use for personal stuff and leave the other one at the shop all the time. He's definitely not what you would call a "power user"...he's only just starting to grasp the fact that "AOL" isn't the same thing as "the internet." Yes. He's that old. Gotta love him. XD But he is set on it being a laptop so he can still bring it with him places.

Really all he needs is something to watch shit on things like YT and Prime Video, and a BluRay/DVD player for watching his movie collection. So a bigger, crisper screen is way more important than pumping out 1000 FPS. The optical drive being external is also totally fine, if that means a better laptop or cheaper overall price. Speaking of which, he hasn't given me a budget but I would guess maybe $750 tops. Again, he doesn't need anything crazy and I don't want to tell him to drop a grand on something with power that he's never going to need or appreciate.

Any suggestions?

https://www.woot.com/category/computers/laptops

Aristoph posted...

BluRay/DVD player for watching his movie collection

Yeah... good luck with that.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Yeah... good luck with that.

I know, which is why I mentioned that an external drive is fine. So if anybody's got a suggestion for one of those too, that would be awesome.