Good laptop for wife?
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You said Lenovo makes bad laptops, what would you suggest instead.
Welcoming other opinions too.
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@xaade what's your budget for purchase? HP is running some really good deals on their Envy x360 series right now.
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@polygeekery said in Good laptop for wife?:
@xaade what's your budget for purchase? HP is running some really good deals on their Envy x360 series right now.
$700 ain't bad.
How does the Ryzen 5 compare to Intel?
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I don't think a laptop would make a very good wife. Cortana can't hold enough of a conversation.
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@e4tmyl33t On the other hand, some don't want a wife who won't shut up.
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@xaade said in Good laptop for wife?:
@polygeekery said in Good laptop for wife?:
@xaade what's your budget for purchase? HP is running some really good deals on their Envy x360 series right now.
$700 ain't bad.
How does the Ryzen 5 compare to Intel?
Not sure, I have not used one yet. On Friday I ordered six of the Intel version for a client. We deployed eight of them last month and they are nice units.
If it is for a birthday or something you should know that they are delivered from China. Not quite the slow boat, but not speedy either. So add a couple of weeks on to their date they tell you it will ship on.
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@xaade For home use I buy Acer.
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@polygeekery said in Good laptop for wife?:
We deployed eight of them last month and they are nice units.
Seconding this. HP laptops are very nice these days and an Envy was on my short list when I was purchasing a year or so ago (ended up going with a different HP).
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@xaade said in Good laptop for wife?:
Welcoming other opinions too.
What does she want to do with it?
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@luhmann said in Good laptop for wife?:
@parody said in Good laptop for wife?:
What does she want to do with it?
P0rn. Lots of it.
Not that you're the OP, but: Watching? Creating? Analyzing?
My point is that there's a lot of form factors and device types nowadays and they cater to different uses and users.
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@parody said in Good laptop for wife?:
@xaade said in Good laptop for wife?:
Welcoming other opinions too.
What does she want to do with it?
Mostly look stuff up, some streaming youtube, but she does that mostly with her tablet. Some word processing. Nothing intensive. But for those things, I'd like it to be responsive. So an SSD would be good to have.
I was going to give her my old laptop, but that thing is so slow compared to her work laptop.
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I'm a happy Lenovo Yoga owner now and probably the best laptop I've used so far.
I have a HP pavilion that's been running for ~4 years with zero problems. I also have another lenovo that's been running for 6 years now with having to replace the space key around 5 years of heavy abuse.
YMMV. I would recommend HP if you don't wanna go with Lenovo.
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@xaade said in Good laptop for wife?:
So an SSD would be good to have.
Oh it's brilliant. Boot time is 8 seconds and then immediately things start to work. MAGIC!!!!!!!! Also, if she's gonna use it for the same things she uses a tablet for, why not get a surface pro and then attach a keyboard when neccessary instead of an actual laptop
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@xaade said in Good laptop for wife?:
@parody said in Good laptop for wife?:
@xaade said in Good laptop for wife?:
Welcoming other opinions too.
What does she want to do with it?
Mostly look stuff up, some streaming youtube, but she does that mostly with her tablet. Some word processing. Nothing intensive. But for those things, I'd like it to be responsive. So an SSD would be good to have.
I was going to give her my old laptop, but that thing is so slow compared to her work laptop.
As a follow up to blakey, I bought my wife an Acer about a year and half ago for about $300. I separately bought an SSD (SSD was 500GB, so about $140, the machine came with a 1TB spinner, she hadn't filled more than 200GB on her previous machine so 500GB was really overkill) and transferred her stuff over. Sounds like they have similar usage patterns. Very happy with the machine.
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Did you transfer over the boot OS? How did you do that?
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@xaade said in Good laptop for wife?:
Did you transfer over the boot OS? How did you do that?
Hmm....I had a thread about that somewhere, or maybe I just ranted in WTF bites. The SSD came with some software (and I had a special cable that allowed you to connect the SSD by USB), but it was incapable of transferring to a smaller disk, even though the amount of data was way under the size of the target.
Ah: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/21722/cloning-drives
Macrium Reflect was apparently what finally worked for me.
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I'm really loving my Dell Latitude. Wasn't cheap though.
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8th Generation Intel Core i5-8250U Processor (Up to 3.4GHz)
15.6" Full HD (1920 x 1080) widescreen LED-lit IPS Display
8GB Dual Channel Memory & 256GB SSD
Up to 15-hours of battery life.Adapter: 65 W
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@dangeruss said in Good laptop for wife?:
I'm really loving my Dell Latitude. Wasn't cheap though.
The "professional" Dells are pretty sharp too, from my experience. A couple jobs ago I had a Precision series and it was a really nice machine.
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I have hated every laptop I have ever used. Then I bought a Gigabyte and became very happy.
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I like the MSI laptop I have, though they're a bit too expensive to recommend for budget/casual use. They're nice gaming/professional-grade systems without all the programmable RGB bling that everyone else does these days.
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I need a laptop that needs to run exactly one piece of Windows software, and only needs to be technically portable.
As far as I can tell, my least expensive option is an NUC stick taped to a monitor.
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@weng said in Good laptop for wife?:
As far as I can tell, my least expensive option is an NUC stick taped to a monitor.
As long as you don't need Windows Updates (as detailed by my recent posts over in the WTF Bites thread), https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N2USU5A/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102203&cm_re=NUC--56-102-203--Product
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236357&cm_re=usb_powered_monitor--24-236-357--Product
(but keep in mind it'll have a power brick. Not very laptoppy with a power brick.
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@weng said in Good laptop for wife?:
I need a laptop that needs to run exactly one piece of Windows software, and only needs to be technically portable.
As far as I can tell, my least expensive option is an NUC stick taped to a monitor.
How much horsepower do you need? Used laptops are cheap if you don't need something super modern.
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@mott555 It also needs to have a display bigger than a phone.
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@polygeekery Boots Win10 in under a geological age is basically the only qualifier.
I'm bad at shopping for used things these days. Where does one even do that?
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@weng said in Good laptop for wife?:
Boots Win10 in under a geological age is basically the only qualifier.
That's easy enough. Buy a cheap used machine and add in the cheapest SSD you can find that is of the size you need.
@weng said in Good laptop for wife?:
I'm bad at shopping for used things these days. Where does one even do that?
You can start with craigslist and other similar sites/services. You should be able to find something on there for cheap, especially considering the extremely minimal requirements.
May I ask what the piece of software is? You have peaked my curiosity.
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@polygeekery It has something to do with my new lounge thread.
... Come to think of it there's a Linux and Mac version of the software as well.
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@weng It shouldn't be hard to find a cheap used Mac from two days ago from a fanboy who's looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest thing of this week.
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@mott555 You'd think that but those people look at full scale computers as investments for some reason
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@weng said in Good laptop for wife?:
@polygeekery It has something to do with my new lounge thread.
... Come to think of it there's a Linux and Mac version of the software as well.
Got it. In fact, I am pretty sure I know the exact software you are talking about.
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@e4tmyl33t said in Good laptop for wife?:
I don't think a laptop would make a very good wife. Cortana can't hold enough of a conversation.
I would like to get a laptop for my wife.
Anyone who would like to make that trade, let me know.
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@weng said in Good laptop for wife?:
@mott555 You'd think that but those people look at full scale computers as investments for some reason
Full scale Macs cost as much as a house so maybe they're confusing it for real estate.
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@polygeekery said in Good laptop for wife?:
@weng said in Good laptop for wife?:
I'm bad at shopping for used things these days. Where does one even do that?
You can start with craigslist and other similar sites/services. You should be able to find something on there for cheap, especially considering the extremely minimal requirements.
I've bought lots of stuff at the Dell Outlet (just google it, there doesn't seem to be a succinct URL), which is refurbished stuff. Some is returns, others are scratch and dent.
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@el_heffe said in Good laptop for wife?:
@e4tmyl33t said in Good laptop for wife?:
I don't think a laptop would make a very good wife. Cortana can't hold enough of a conversation.
I would like to get a laptop for my wife.
Anyone who would like to make that trade, let me know.
Can you tell me the specs?
EDIT: I was referring to the wife.
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@el_heffe said in Good laptop for wife?:
@e4tmyl33t said in Good laptop for wife?:
I don't think a laptop would make a very good wife. Cortana can't hold enough of a conversation.
I would like to get a laptop for my wife.
Anyone who would like to make that trade, let me know.
I have a 10-year-old Alienware that's collecting dust...
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@mott555 If it's not at least 18 you might get in some legal trouble
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@jaloopa I'll install Windows 95 on it so it can identify as 18+.
EDIT: Oh God I just realized Windows XP is about to turn 18...I feel old.
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@mott555 said in Good laptop for wife?:
@jaloopa I'll install Windows 95 on it so it can identify as 18+.
EDIT: Oh God I just realized Windows XP is about to turn 18...I feel old.
My oscilloscope at home states its firmware release as 1995 on the boot screen. I hadn't consciously thought until you said it that it's 23 years old! They don't make 'em like they used to
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