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Nothing better than hands-on, real-world experience. I too have had good experience with Lenovo, but nothing smaller than a 14" thinkpad. I would be skeptical that it would be very smooth or quick with large Excel files or larger Access databases though. But if her classes don't require ExcelAccess, then it may suit her wants just fine. For special form factors, they are often built with everything integrated. This is a rather extreme exercise in small size, light weight and low price point, so I wouldn't be surprised if they made it surface mount, or at the very least didn't design it so that there was easy access to get to it and change it...

I'd love a deal on 24" or 27" UHD computer monitors.

Also, does your monitor have an HDMI port? If not, you'll probably need a VGA port on the laptop or a docking station. These days, it seems not many laptops include the VGA port anymore.

Hey, anyone else noticed the dates in the bottom right of each product square is for 2018?

Yea, what Bribri said. All signs indicate that 4GB is the max on this baby and it's not even very fast RAM. Also, the battery appears to be integrated. I suspect the 40WHr battery will be pretty darn good....for a year or two....but I don't know if you can buy a replacement for it when the battery starts holding less and less charge.

Budget? Going to power bigger monitors with it? How many? Still tons of deals from the likes of Best Buy and OfficeMax/Depot, Staples, Newegg, Walmart, and quite a few others to look for in the coming weeks.

Yup I know I've linked to this website before but I'll do it again as they seem to put out some really great info. http://www.rtings.com/ In particular, looking at the 4K TV BriBri referenced above, they found that while it will accept a 4K signal, and even says it supports HDR10, it doesn't actually support a Wide Color Gamut, which is the best part of 4K HDR media. http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ku6300 And again, the box says "Motion Rate 120", but the set is actually still just a 60Hz refresh rate.

Hmm....nothing comes to mind... Forgot the link maybe?

Does your daughter really need the laptop for its mobility? You pay a premium for that that may not be necessary if you're talking about just doing school work at home. Do you think she would be more successful working at a desk with a nice 22 inch screen and a full size keyboard and mouse or squinting down at her lap, while sitting on the couch in front of the TV, at a 15 inch screen using a cramped little keyboard and touch pad? Plus, you get more computer for your money when you buy a desktop over a laptop. More memory, faster processor, better graphics, and more importantly an upgradeable platform so you can just upgrade parts later down the road instead of buying a whole new system. Just sayin'.

This! My school gave Office 360 to me for free. Well, here are my first thoughts: "average" size laptops are 15.6"speaking of screen size, I wouldn't get anything smaller than 1600 x 900, and I would probably try to hold out for 1920 x 1080. The biggest gripe I have with my current laptop is that there's just not enough room on the screen for many of the application interfaces I use (Alice, Netbeans, SQL Developer, etc.).if you see something like Intel HD Graphics, that indicates the laptop has what's called "integrated" graphics where it shares system resources with the rest of the system. If you see something like "Radeon" or "NVIDIA", then that means the laptop has what's called "discrete" graphics and that means the graphics card has dedicated resources that it doesn't share and is pretty much always better than integrated. Discrete costs more, and in my opinion is a must have for anything even pretending to be a gaming machine, but if he's not going to be gaming on it, it might not be necessary. I would be surprised if a laptop with discrete graphics came in under $500, but this is Black Friday - anything can happen, right?Unless he's downloading pirated movies left and right, 500GB of HDD is probably sufficient. And if he is downloading pirated movies, he should probably keep them on an external hard drive anyway. If he is interested in dual booting the machine and maybe running Linux on a separate partition, 1TB would be the way to go probably. Or if he's a gamer.wireless 802.11 AC is pretty awesome, but only works if your home router is also wireless AC. Otherwise, you just go at the N or G speed that your home router is (or whatever router you're connected to). USB wireless AC network adapters can be bought separately down the line if you don't have the infrastructure to take advantage of it now.8GB seems to be a sweet spot for Windows 10.personally, I'd go with an Intel i3, i5 or i7 processor. AMD's not terrible, Intel just has the better rep right now.Do you think having a DVD drive is important to him? Given your requirements, I'd probably aim for a 15" laptop with 8GB or RAM, Windows 10, 1920 x 1080 screen and an Intel i5 processor.

I don't think there's been any official price announced, but this site has some good info. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-switch-price-launch-lineup-teased/1100-6444987/ As well as some video demonstrating little clips of game play. I think they're expecting a hard price announcement from Nintendo on Jan 12. For reference, they mention that the Wii launched at $250 and the WiiU launched at $300.

Folks, 1080P isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Any and all reports of its impending demise are grossly exaggerated. Recall if you would all the 3D HDTV's that were all over the place the last few years. There was more media available in 3D than there currently is in 4K and 3D still didn't make it. If I were to place a bet, I'd say we were still easily 6 - 10 years away from 4K getting to the point where it has even half the marketshare of published media. And chances are great that something even better will come out between now and then.

Sounds good. You need to answer these questions: - budget? - what are you going to run on it? Games (which games)? Video/Graphics rendering (which software)? Just regular web surfing/email stuff? - will it need to run without being plugged in a long time a lot of the time or just occasionally? - prefer light and portable (smaller screen & better battery life) or massive awesome screen (heavier & harder on a battery)? I'll come up with some more questions...

The thing to remember is Nintendo is very good at what they do. But what they do might not be what you want them to do. Most of their success comes from games with brilliant gameplay, not realistic graphics. They make great family friendly game systems for reasonable prices. - realistic battle scenes, death scenes, Grand Theft Auto are not family friendly (unless the family you're talking about is mafioso) - if your kids (or you) want these types of games, Nintendo is not the place to look for it Also, Nintendo may well be one of the most stubborn or perhaps arrogant companies out there it seems. They've had off and on feuds with EA and Amazon and others over and over, to both their and the other party's detriment. But they show no signs of remorse. I think EA released less than a half dozen games in total for the WiiU.

Yup, here's the news release from Apple. http://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016/10/apple-unveils-groundbreaking-new-macbook-pro.html Past due if you ask me, but maybe just in time for some smoking good Black Friday deals on the old models this year for anyone who's looking for one.

Look up the weight for her current laptop. Then you can compare to other options. No sense in getting a new one just to find it weighs the same or more than the old one, though the one racerfan linked to looks mighty lightweight.

I see what you did there. I have no specific experience with any of these, but they look interesting: http://computers.woot.com/plus/professionally-detached-notebooks-6?ref=cp_cnt_wp_11

Maybe they realized they were using the same battery supplier as Samsung was for the Notes and had to push back the launch date...?

March 2017 is an odd date it seems, but they shouldn't have any competition for those tax return dollars now.

Interesting read. I wonder if this means we might be in for a treat of better than average Mac discounts this year...? http://www.cheatsheet.com/technology/dont-want-buy-new-mac-right-now.html/?ref=YF&yptr=yahoo

1.) "I'm a little tea cup..." 2.) I've been in line for 48 hours, fought through the crowds to get to the toy aisle, and these four boxes are all that's left. And I have 5 daughters... 3.) Honey, I'm sure all your friends wish they had this time with their moms. Look at you with your mean face on scaring line jumpers away. Mommy's so proud of you!

If the laptop is too heavy, maybe a membership to a gym, or fill a water bottle with Helium and stick it in the backpack. I kid. Need to go back to the requirements. She has a laptop. So she has something to write her papers on. What would she be using the tablet for? Note taking? Email and web browsing in those boring periods between classes? Just to look cool? Would any of her classes require particular programs? You'd hate to get her something and then find out it doesn't do everything she needs so she ends up needing her laptop anyway, so then she ends up carrying both the laptop AND the tablet everywhere... Many smart phones are large enough to perform most tablet functions these days (phablets). The Note is a prime example....explosions aside. My iPhone 7 Plus is great for note taking and web browsing and Netflix watching and game playing and time wasting. So, we should have her make a list of: - things she NEEDS (for school and for general life usage) - things she would love to have - things she absolutely doesn't want Then we can be more prescriptive in our answer.

Hmm...I guess this means Hillary doesn't have them yet either, or they'd have been leaked by the Russians by now.