in my case, taking the laptop apart is not just a pain in the A$$, it can get downright dangerous (to the machine). :)
-eric On May 12, 2018, at 12:14 AM, Andrew McRobb wrote: > Without Really knowing much about your laptop, if it has replaceable parts, > hard drive, Ram, sometimes just sticking in a new SSD or newer/better Ram > does the trick without breaking the bank. > > In my honest opinion, I wouldn't mind getting my hands little dirty fixing up > the hardware, if I had a backup laptop sitting around or just simply didn't > care about the broken laptop anymore enough if I didn't mind if it stopped > working altogether one day. Sometimes you can save more money just replacing > some parts from China, but sometimes the biggest pain in the butt is just > simply taking the laptop apart.... > > On Fri, May 11, 2018, 11:44 PM Eric Oyen <[email protected]> wrote: > well, > Dell has some machines in that price range. HP does as well. both sites have > a "build your own" feature that will cull down all the features you want to > have and spit out a model. > > Mine is a Dell Latitude laptop 2012 vintage core i5 with 4 cores on board. 4 > GB of ram and a 250 GB hdd. When I acquired it, the price tag was around > $700. It's still serviceable and still boots up pretty fast (for an actual > spindle HDD, that's pretty fast). > > btw, if you want an SSD on your machine, expect to pay through the nose as > those are not cheap. > > Here is one on amazon for under $500: > https://www.amazon.com/hp-laptop-under-500/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ahp%20laptop%20under%20500 > > > you could also look at a couple of local retailers (like Best Buy, Walmart or > Fry's electronics). there is always a deal to be had. just be aware, the > cheaper the system is, the less powerful it is less likely to be. > > -eric > > On May 11, 2018, at 11:05 PM, trent shipley wrote: > > > I'm thinking about getting a new laptop. Mine is several years old, and > > while it's quite serviceable, it boots really slowly, and it doesn't like > > to run a guest Ubuntu OS under Oracle VirtualBox. Also, I foresee more > > compiling in my future, even though of late I've been rather truant about > > working on my own through my Haskell book. I will say no more about the R > > book. I don't game, because it is addicting, and therefore bad for me. > > > > I tend to try to get as much life as possible out of a computer, because I > > am poor. I have heard good things about ASUS. I see more Linux in my > > future, but I have to have Windows and since Windows tends to come > > preinstalled, I expect it would be my native, host OS. > > > > I'd like to spend $500, but could (and probably will) stretch to $700. > > > > What could I expect to get for that, and what would you suggest. > > > > Trent. > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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