Laptop recommendations.

I'm also in the market for a new one. 13-14 inch preferably, I3 or I5 chip, SSD drive strongly preferred.

I have an Asus zenbook flip, 500ssd and I absolutely lobe it. best laptop I have ever had but I don't do video editing or anything like that on it.

Yes, the new MS line is amazing, but EXPENSIVE.

That's looks good r2. Thin and light, convertible. SSD with 512 GB storage, I7. Is Asus considered a good brand?

Before you can get advice we need to know what you want to use it for? Work, gaming, video editing? Give us some idea of the usage. If you just want to web browse and light email - you can get by with an ipad.

R1 here: need for work/documents management, photos/mp3 management (most archived in external hard drive), email. web surfing. No gaming, very rare movie-watching.

I am r2 and I paid half retail price for the laptop but I would be just as happy if I had paid full price. it was one of the 3 I was looking for under $2k. (I paid 600) I swear the thing weighs maybe a pound even though they say 2.4 pounds.

I use it to download movies that I move to external storage and I have a bunch of music on it. when I brought it to work I used standard office programs and a speech to text program. it's fast, never had a failure and I actually use it to read books on too now because it's so lightweight and touchscreen.

r6 so pretty light usage. the LG Gram is good then, a dell xps 13 also - the asus is good as well. What you want to look for is light weight and long battery life. Avoid Ryzen as a cpu they are not as efficient as the Intels.

No No no....I need 15" plus

Where's a good place online to find slightly older models, for savings? I know there's amazon.

The Dell XPS 13 looks interesting.

ebay for used - check out techbargains.com if you want deasl. or slickdeals.

I believe the LG Gram has a 17 inch model.

yes, my asus (linked in thread) was ebay, open box. half off retail.

are refurbished laptops (off-lease) a good deal? Or a landmine to steer clear of.

if you get a refurb through the manufacturer or authorized dealer it can be just fine. they're usually pretty upfront about warranty and service, at least with dell, is really easy and affordable.

late 2019 HP Spectre x360

[quote]Anyone have the LG Gram?

The only two laptops worth having are an Apple or Microsoft laptop. Think of them as phones. You either have an android device or an Samsung device. Nothing else comes close

it should read a Samsung phone or an Iphone. *

Pixel has something to say, R16/17.

Can the Pixel compete with the new Iphone or the new Galaxy Note?

Never thought I'd be a mac person but after all my other laptops were corrupted or just plain died after a couple of years I got a MacBook Air. I think it's 5 years old and still perfect. Just run the updates now and then.

R19 Its camera was only just surpassed by the iPhone 11, but Pixel had bested iPhone for two years running. We'll see if it can regain the crown on Tuesday. It will also have the first Android iteration of facial recognition that can compete with iPhone on security and speed (technically Huawei was first but they aren't sold here).

This one on Indiegogo seems to be trying to be a low-cost version of the MS Surface.

Dell? I thought Dell is shit?

Heard battery life is very poor.

I just bought a HP at best buy, I asked the sales person and they say Dell gets returned a lot!

The important thing for me is to buy the best buy warranty. If anything happens in 1 year, you break it, you spill coffee, you drop it etc, they fix it for you or if they can't, they give you a new one.

yes, Pixel is cheaper and better. I bought it a few months ago and no complaints.

I am not wasting 1000 on a fucking phone, I don't want to be robbed or killed for it.

I like this one.

Macs are over rated and inflated in price. Closed loop eco system. Same for the surface. You can get an excellent laptop for 600 dollars.

r16 How is the Surface a "closed loop ecosystem?"

There’s already been a thread on this!! Several times over. Would it have killed you OP to have just done a search before hand?? I mean seriously??

I'd say the Lenovo Ideapad is a good model.

"are refurbished laptops (off-lease) a good deal?"

Anything can happen but I bought a new Dell and the video card went bad after a year. Dell replaced it with a top of the line refurbished. It died in two years.

I have absolutely no problem wit DELL in general, it depends on your needs. My HP laptop went completely nuts after three years, up until that it was my favorite laptop ever. I have a Dell now, I love it, no issues.

I have a Lenovo and knock the crap out of it, and it still holds up well.

I had a Sony Vaio laptop for years but they stopped making them. They now only make a few models (like 3). Then I switched to HP. No problems here.

Whatever you do, don't give this asshole your money.

I have a macbook for my own stuff and my work laptop is an X1 Yoga. I don't love PCs at all but this is hard to find fault with. I really like it and recommend it for light to medium use.

My Mac lasted 10 years just upgraded to a new Mac Book Pro, it is awesome!

I would focus on the keyboard, then the screen size I would want. The original IBM keyboard for the desktop was the best. On the laptops, it was the ThinkPad. I bought a low cost Lenevo ( they bought IBM's personal computing/ThinkPad line). Unfortunately, it's not the perfect keyboard as the ThinkPads: the right or shift key is not the full width key like the the ThinkPad had. I make many capital letter shift errors. Really, after that, the $299 laptop deal that will be around during the upcoming holiday season will have enough of the technical specs to perform beyond your needs. I was going to verify which is the skinny shift key, right or left, but I don't even know where my Laptop is, quite frankly. I do everything on my Pixel 2XL. I refinanced my home through Quicken Loans. I did everything on their Rocket Mortgage Android app. I would choose a MS Surface if it wasn't so expensive. I occasionally use a Samsung tablet to browse while shopping. I mostly use the tablet for the Excel spreadsheet I created for adding game scores, as we play games nearly everyday. Hardly tasking the tablet.

Get a Chromebook. All you're doing is looking at porn anyway.

wait till black friday or cyber monday. will be better deals then.

r27 The surface is less of a closed-loop but almost completely unrepairable. If you break your screen on a surface the cost to replace can be as much as a new surface.

R23. Dell's are shit! Nothing but problems with the screen and all sorts of issues. Had less than a year brand new! Will never buy one again.

HP's Spectre is one of the best on the market. If HP doesn't do it for you, look at Asus. Lenovos make good door stops.

Thinkpad

anyone have the LG gram? Is it worth the price? Do you like it?

Seriously, watch the home shopping networks for special deals. I have a beautiful HP 17" with touch screen, 2 TB hard drive, back lit key board, anti-virus and I paid $599 with two years tech support.

I agree Dell's are shit, avoid them.

I wouldn't get anything less than an i7.

The new Surface X is super light weight, has new technology which extends battery life to 13 hours (allegedly), and is LTE equipped, so you can surf web anywhere

[quote]and is LTE equipped, so you can surf web anywhere

What's the benefit of that vs. using your phone's mobile hotspot?

r46 - better antenna, so better signal, you are not tied to your phone (setting up hot spot password) and typically you get a better data rate. That and an always on connection. If you don't use all your data on your phone and have a lot to spare you can skip it but my job insists I use a lte connection in public, No public wifi so they pay for LTE in our laptops.

go mac......you will never go back.........

I love my MacBook Air.

r47 I have Google Fi. They charge for every byte of data ($10/GB), whether it's hotspot or on the phone, so it wouldn't make a difference to me.

I thought FI changed their pay structure? Fi is just based on tmobile and sprint data any how. I would not get LTE anyhow unless they were offering 5g.

Here to add that you don't need an expensive laptop. Get a Chromebook, adjust to using the Google Suite (they have your information anyway), and don't spend more than 300 bucks on a laptop. Apple and Microsoft are scams.

OP - you are an idiot and appear to lack any semblance of basic life skills.

I hope you decide to follow the random advice offered since you haven't provided even the barest minimum information necessary to get good advice from anyone.

I have had a 17 inch LG Gram for about 6months. Love it. Light as shit, boots us in a couple of seconds and has amazing battery life. Yes, I mostly use it to watch porn.

r51 Google Fi is $20 for unlimited talk/text, and $10/GB for data. I love it because I rarely use more than 2GB of data and they only charge you for what you use. They do have an unlimited plan, and family plans, but those don't work for me. It's also great for travel, since they charge the same $10/GB worldwide, and texting is free.

I got the new retina 2019 Macbook Air a couple of months back and I already had to send it in for a display/display adapter replacement. Before that, I had a mid-2013 Air that ran like a champ with no issues whatsoever until the battery totally gave out and wasn't worth replacing. I think Apple has adopted that "fast fashion" mentality: initial quality will be shit so you have to go out and purchase a replacement. Nothing is built to last anymore. Doesn't benefit the company for things to last, shit has to fail so they can get more of your $$.

Anyway, that's my Mac experience.

HP is crap. My work one just shit the bed after less than 1.5 years. CRAP. I’ve never had a laptop hard drive just die so quickly. But it apparently had B&O speakers! Which I never used.

OT, but laptop question:

Tgree days ago, my HP laptop went nuts - opening all apps by itself, kept opening Word, started talking to me...the icons on the desktop screen were super large, and I could see little faint circles all over it - classic symptoms of a virus.

I couldn't turn it off, so I just closed the lid. Later opened it and all was back to normal, shut it down. Next day it was fine. I scanned it with three different virus scanners, and malwarebytes. ALL of them came back clean.

Is the laptop still infected? Should I take it somewhere to have a virus removed or just go on pretending the incident never happened?

R58 were you drinking/high at the time? You’ve obviously picked up some sort of virus from surfing all those pron websites. You could take it to get looked at but then other people will see your sordid online life... what a conundrum!

I was tipsy, R59, not drunk or hallucinating. I was NOT on a pron site, I was looking at fashions.

Just do a factory reset. You will lose items that are saved on the hard drive but it will fix your virus issue.

How?

Many, if not most, newer computers use SSDs in place of hard drives. They're much faster, and because they don't have any moving parts, usually more reliable. They're also more expensive than hard drives, so you usually get less storage space than you would for a hard drive-equipped machine in the same price range. However, you can always use (1) the cloud and (2) external storage (and they do make external SSDs.)

How to reset R58

what is the phone like with Google? Does it have a good camera, video and audio?

Thanks, R64, I bookmarked it for future use if needed. What I did was System Restore to 10/9. That should work.

r66, while it's working well be sure to back up all your documents either online or on a thumb drive /external hardrive. be sure to get all the registration information for all your programs as if you do a full reset you will need to reinstall everything. that way if you do have to reset it will be far less stressful worrying you will lose everything

Lenovo Thimkpads have great keyboards and hold up well. They are sturdy, but not overly heavy. The lower tier of Lenovo's offerings, are flimsy.