Pnambic
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I'd love a deal on 24" or 27" UHD computer monitors.
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I plan on using a dock and connecting at least one monitor.
Wanted to keep it under 500.
Need to have all the normal such as DVD / CD. Want 8 gb memory min.
also would like Intel i5 min
You'll probably want to wait to see what else comes out and compare them. You sound like you have an idea of what you need/want; now it's a matter of finding the best deal on the best match to your specs.
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.
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Hey, anyone else noticed the dates in the bottom right of each product square is for 2018?
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OOPS sorry I must have been really tired
Pros:
Size & Weight
Compact
Versatile (Touchscreen Laptop & Tablet in One)
Price
Cons:
4GB RAM is probably the absolute minimum (ideally, 8GB) you'll want for Win10; it might seem a little sluggish at time - perfectly acceptable for taking notes. Doesn't look like this is expandable past 4 GB
Screen Size - just make sure you know what you're getting in an 11" screen. It's pretty small; but I know small was on the wish list, so just be aware.
Battery - since it's light, so is the battery. It says it's rated for 6 hours, so plan on just 4. If she'll have access to outlets, no problem. Make sure to set it up that it goes to sleep after X minutes as to not waste battery in her backpack.
No DVD Drive - not a deal breaker these days; hardly ever used, and can buy an external one if absolutely necessary.
I can't give you much reason not to get this one; I think the 4GB RAM is the only hesitation and just be aware of the limitations of the screen size and battery life.
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.
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I'm looking for a home office laptop...possibly docking to simplify things but never have done it.
I see Dell's office ad but what other options are recommended?
I want to balance performance with cost. Not a gamer anymore so don't need super high performance or graphics.
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.
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And just taking for instance the BJs ad; Samsung, 50", 4K (Page 2) and 1080p (Page 3) are fairly comparable where you're paying $480 for 4K and 25% less for 1080p ($350). To me, 25% savings is worth it at this point, but maybe that gap closes again in another year, as well as the number of deals on 1080p TVs diminishes (as we're seeing already).
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.
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.
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What do you all think of this one. Its for my Daughter. She has a regular laptop, but we are looking for something small and convertible to take to school. For notes, surfing for research if needed in class. At home possibly use for Netflix, but then she has her regular laptop.
Price is good. Its just to to take to school. Her goes is heavy along with her books. She has 6 classes and goes 3 days a week.
Thanks
Hmm....nothing comes to mind...
Forgot the link maybe?
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I need a laptop for my daughter for school (home school). Not something really fancy or expensive. Saw one in an ad for $99.99. I was pretty excited about that, but I didn't even think about the fact that it probably doesn't have a CD/DVD drive. She doesn't really need the CD/DVD drive, but I may be looking elsewhere just the same just in case the need ever comes up
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'.
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Before you buy MS Office, have your son check with his school. Most colleges offer a discount on it since so many classes require it.
This! My school gave Office 360 to me for free.
He said $400 to $500 (He's a college kid buying this with his hard earned money, so the lower the better so long as its still a decent laptop)
He needs/wants it to take an online college course to finish up his degree. I think a web browser is all it would need (but I will suggest he double checks). I think having basic office products would be best (MS Word/Excel) but not necessarily required.
It won't get a ton of usage, as he is a very busy young man with going to college and working full-time. I would assume he'd use the web browser the most for the online course, social media, normal web surfing. He may need to type up some documents for some classes (though most are welding/mechanical classes) - but he can also come home and use the desktop if he had to.
I don't see him playing games on the computer at this time.
I would say an average size screen. As for battery I think whether he needs to have it plugged in or not is not too relevant for him, as I am sure he may only use it at his apartment. He *might* occasionally take it to school w/ him, but again he should have access to plug ins.
I do think something not flimsy would be good - sorry but he is a male.
He is not dainty with things.Please let me know if you have any other questions or there are other things we need to be looking at. Oh, memory. Ideally it'd have enough that he doesn't have to add to it. Most things for school would probably be saved to his flash drive. So idk - 4 GB at least, I am truly at loss here as for size.
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.
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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.
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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.
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...There WILL be bargains, so don't blow your savings on the first pretty girl that flirts with you.
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My son wants me to help him find a laptop deal for Black Friday. This shall be fun! I'm excited to help him, I just hope I don't guide him to the wrong thing. I will definitely be asking for help from you all once ads start coming out that have laptop deals.
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...
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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.
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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
Especially if you don't mind the last model. They have an event in 2 days and rumors are it's most likely to announce a bunch of new release for Mac Hardware.
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.
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Thank you yes. Hoping BF will get them down lower.
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.
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... and weigh your options.
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
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Maybe they realized they were using the same battery supplier as Samsung was for the Notes and had to push back the launch date...?
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Oh, you wanted your phone to have calling capabilities?? I guess a phone could be used for that, too...
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March 2017 is an odd date it seems, but they shouldn't have any competition for those tax return dollars now.
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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
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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!
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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.
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Hmm...I guess this means Hillary doesn't have them yet either, or they'd have been leaked by the Russians by now.
He is not dainty with things.
Official Black Friday LAPTOPS Discussion Thread
in 2016
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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...