I want a real computer.

Plankton · 05-12-2020, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy

All i know is I've been using 300-400€ laptops for the past 10 years or so and they were and are absolutely up to the task of streaming and downloading stuff.
You guys are all just a bunch of overthinking nerds.

lol @ bolded

Just give him yours then. C'mon, help a brotha out.

grindy · 05-12-2020, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

lol @ bolded

So what?
My previous one cost below 300.
My current one cost around 350 I think, but I don't remember exactly. It's over four years old.
Still works great for the purposes that OH needs.
I assume newer laptops are more powerful and fast for even less money.

**Frownland** · 05-12-2020, 07:54 AM

You'd think so, but they're just as expensive.

P.s. bought my current laptop at $350 about seven years ago and it's always been total garbage.

grindy · 05-12-2020, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

You'd think so, but they're just as expensive.

P.s. bought my current laptop at $350 about seven years ago and it's always been total garbage.

Sucks, if true.
Point still stands.
Girlfriend uses my old one which I bought for 250 (I think) 8-9 years ago or so.
And even that one is sufficient for streaming and downloading.

**Frownland** · 05-12-2020, 07:59 AM

My computer is pretty good with streaming and downloading too. Running programs that stream and download though? Well that's simply asking a lot you have to give my computer time.

WWWP · 05-12-2020, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

wouldn't this have to be saved in your phone's vocabulary for it to Autocorrect hm I mean no judgement

Not necessarily. Like if I type Apple it automatically capitalizes, predictive text suggests things like Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 05-12-2020, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I hope you put no thought in that post, cause if you did then you're no better than the rest.

Plankton · 05-12-2020, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy

So what?

That's a $66.20 difference between your high end and my ding dong. Try not to think too much.

The Batlord · 05-12-2020, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

But Grindr?

that's more amusing if it defaults to that

Maybe we had Merit wrong all this time.

ando here · 01-10-2021, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

What I did with my last laptop was to buy a gaming PC, then I maxed out the RAM. I paid $800 for a Dell G3 (on sale at the time) and then another $120 for 32 Gigabytes of RAM (Random Access Memory) and installed it myself. I paid under $1k for a $2k comparable laptop because tech companies and resellers know the ignorance of the average consumer. RAM is what your system needs in order to function properly, and the more of it, the better. It's system memory and different from the memory on a hard drive, which stores files. Once RAM gets used up, it's gone until you reboot. It's the same with on-board graphics memory, but that's another avenue all together and you won't need to worry about that unless you start gaming. Companies will put out low-cost products with low-end RAM and then jack up the price on units with basically the same specs but more RAM, and the markup for just having more RAM preinstalled is ridiculous. It's capitalism in it's finest form.

That's what I'm finding in my laptop search. Geez, 3 and 4 hundred extra dollars for 6 to 12 more gbs of RAM? Ridiculous.

I'm looking for a laptop with very good resolution (doesn't have to be optimal, necessarily), a backlit keyboard, a DVD-RW drive, great sound and at least 16 gb. But your installation of 32 gbs of RAM sounds like a great idea.

05-12-2020, 07:54 AM	#63 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	You'd think so, but they're just as expensive. P.s. bought my current laptop at $350 about seven years ago and it's always been total garbage. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-12-2020, 07:59 AM	#65 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	My computer is pretty good with streaming and downloading too. Running programs that stream and download though? Well that's simply asking a lot you have to give my computer time. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x