I bought the wife an Asus chromebook several months ago. It's agreat little device for tronzing. Not meant for much else though.
Hah, no. I did not want to pay $3k for my laptop, but I did (mostly) get what I wanted:
probably like 1200 just because I really don't need much at all. I just want a decent machine that's reliable. Not gonna buy a macbook pro bc there's no fuggin need for it. Spent about 1100 on the Samsung that I'm currently typing on about 6 years ago and never sniffed using all of its available features. Most every thing that I use now is accessible on the cloud so that's why I was curious about the chromebooks. I don't need much hard storage.
Yes. Those are what I was looking at. Do you trust Dell? I’ve never had one. I’ll never buy an LG. I think that brand is garbage. I can be persuaded to move to Dell though if people have good experiences with it
I'll be honest, I haven't run an Inspiron in forever, but my team manages about 200 Dell Latitude Laptops and another 100 Dell PCs of various flavors and rarely have any problems with them that aren't user created.
RAM is the key. And absolutely make sure you get a 64-bit operating system. I know that's kind of a "duh" type statement, but so many people over look that. And the 32-bit system can't handle half the RAM that the 64 can.
Way more than half. 32bit OS will top at at 4GB of RAM that is addressable. On a 64bit OS you could theoretically address exabytes (billions of GB), but it's limited by the OS. On Windows 10 (consumer) the limit is 128GB and on Pro or Enterprise it's 512GB.
I built a Dell Latitude 7000 when I was doing all of the GIS work for the Lee County Highway Department. Was a $3500 machine when I got finished with everything I wanted (county paid for it). It would almost turn on and boot before I could push the power button. It was that fast. 64GB RAM, i7 processor (cant remember which exact model), Dual 500GB SSD, and a premo NVIDIA GEForce graphics card. That was about 3 years ago now, but I would give anything to get that laptop back. My office here was going to let me get another build of it but we contract all of our IT and they provide us with shit computers in return. But, yes, I'd highly recommend Dell, and do trust them. But I'm not nearly the computer geek savant that @ThrustMaxwell is.
Yeah, having that NVIDIA card baked in is really nice. 4k touch display as well.
Have you played with Windows 10 yet? You can "natively" run Linux commands in powershell with it. They are baking in something called the Windows Subystem for Linux that allows a stropped down *nix "installation". Ubuntu was the first but now other flavors are popping up that people have made compatible. I have gotten Kali Linux (cli only) to successfully run native on a Win10 instance. It's mind blowing.
If you have those bookmarked, please send them my way. I've got a fresh out of college wageslave now and I'm putting him in charge of endpoints. This is one of the first things on my list. 80%ish of my GP works fine on 7 or 10, but we're finding more and ore issues. I figure it'll take me 2 more years to completely transition to 10 so we need to get this ironed out.
Get a Lenovo thinkpad t or x series. There are employee discounts online that let you take a 25% discount. Those things are super durable and last a long time (has to be t or x series though). If you get the discount, i think $1200 for what you wanted above (32gb etc) seems really reasonable.
Congrats! That’s a nice machine. You should be happy with it.
Thanks. Never owned a dell so hopefully it’s good.
Should be a solid jack of all trades type box.
