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My old win7 laptop has been a beast. In a good way! She's been the one I do all my internet on, games, HEE, searches etc. Problem is, she is falling to pieces. I just finished taping one whole side where the CD drive (remember those?) because she starting breaking in half there. The power cord has about 8 layers of electrical tape. Sigh. She stalls and eats the data from thumb drives (literally she fried one with a year of photos on it - I cried) My Win10 is my art laptop. Does fantastic at that! Has Adobe PD & Office Pro on it. Problem with the Win10 is a haunted keyboard! It either doesn't want to type s, or I end up with sssssssssss. Quite annoying. I rarely use it for anything BUT art & some Office. SO...My budget for a new laptop is $350. I know I know not a lot of $$$ for something I use 6-8 hours a day. I have always purchased Dell and have been happy so far. Looking for ANY advice on anything besides a Dell Inspiron 15 for my regular everyday needs & to play on HEE & other games. I won't be using it for Art (adobe) or Office. Also looking for input on switching from win10 to win11-what are the hiccups? any Good things in the switch from one to the other? I don't need a lot of bells & whistles & NO touchscreen I need at least two USB, 1 HDMI, and one SBcard ports It needs to have Windows OS Total Votes: 1
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I got a lenovo and am loving it! |
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I have heard good things about those. Thank you I WILL look into them as the purchase needs a rush job now lol
Rocking Horse Farm. said:
I got a lenovo and am loving it!
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I use a HP Elitebook Folio 9470m for HEE/work. Just quickly glanced online and I see a few for about $150 on Ebay where I am, so well within your budget. I usually have 10-20 browser tabs open in Vivaldi (HEE, Google Sheets, other websites depending on the day) and it runs them just fine, and I've had it for 2-3 years now. It even runs some games pretty well, like Roblox. The battery on mine is bad so it needs to be plugged in 24/7 or it will die, but I got mine used and plan to replace the battery anyways. It's good for working, I also use it for art. Runs Clip Studio Paint with 30+ layers almost flawlessly, works perfectly with my art tablet as well. Pretty sure it comes with Windows 10 installed. I don't use Windows 11. I hate the layout and I've had some friends complain about how unaccessable things are. I'm on Windows 10. It's very sleek and lightweight so if you need a laptop to carry around for work or something it's great. Small enough to fit comfortably in a backpack. Also comes with a built-in webcam. Also the keyboard issue could be a stuck keycap or something sticky stuck inside the membrane if you use a membrane keyboard.If it's that it's a relatively simple fix. |
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Thank you! I will check into that! I used HP laptops before for work. they are sturdy.
The Unknown said:
I use a HP Elitebook Folio 9470m for HEE/work. Just quickly glanced online and I see a few for about $150 on Ebay where I am, so well within your budget. I usually have 10-20 browser tabs open in Vivaldi (HEE, Google Sheets, other websites depending on the day) and it runs them just fine, and I've had it for 2-3 years now. It even runs some games pretty well, like Roblox. The battery on mine is bad so it needs to be plugged in 24/7 or it will die, but I got mine used and plan to replace the battery anyways. It's good for working, I also use it for art. Runs Clip Studio Paint with 30+ layers almost flawlessly, works perfectly with my art tablet as well. Pretty sure it comes with Windows 10 installed. I don't use Windows 11. I hate the layout and I've had some friends complain about how unaccessable things are. I'm on Windows 10. It's very sleek and lightweight so if you need a laptop to carry around for work or something it's great. Small enough to fit comfortably in a backpack. Also comes with a built-in webcam. Also the keyboard issue could be a stuck keycap or something sticky stuck inside the membrane if you use a membrane keyboard.If it's that it's a relatively simple fix.
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My Lenovo desktop is fire. My cheap HP laptop from amazon is not fire. It is very slow when it comes to streaming anything. It's my first personal laptop as usually I like to work on the desktop. Historically I have bad luck with HPs in any form. |
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I got a Gateway two years ago during Black Friday for $200ish. Now two years later it's slow as hell and the case is cracked in the center, but it served me decently for the price. Ran Krita with my art tablet fine, ran games like Skyrim and Planet Zoo on medium graphics. Not a lot of bells and whistles but has a micro SD port, two USB ports and a HDMI port. Cooling pad is pretty much required, unfortunately. Actually browses pretty good! Now that it's on the end of its life I can't play games on high graphics and it gets really warm, but it still uses Firefox well and games on lower graphics. Edit: it also came with Windows 11 and I haven't had any issues with that, either. |
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Thank you! Two votes now for Lenova--I think I may go this direction
Cadence Farms said:
My Lenovo desktop is fire. My cheap HP laptop from amazon is not fire. It is very slow when it comes to streaming anything. It's my first personal laptop as usually I like to work on the desktop. Historically I have bad luck with HPs in any form.
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Thank you for your input!
Darkside Dreams said:
I got a Gateway two years ago during Black Friday for $200ish. Now two years later it's slow as hell and the case is cracked in the center, but it served me decently for the price. Ran Krita with my art tablet fine, ran games like Skyrim and Planet Zoo on medium graphics. Not a lot of bells and whistles but has a micro SD port, two USB ports and a HDMI port. Cooling pad is pretty much required, unfortunately. Actually browses pretty good! Now that it's on the end of its life I can't play games on high graphics and it gets really warm, but it still uses Firefox well and games on lower graphics. Edit: it also came with Windows 11 and I haven't had any issues with that, either.
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Darkside Dreams said:
I got a Gateway two years ago during Black Friday for $200ish. Now two years later it's slow as hell and the case is cracked in the center, but it served me decently for the price. Ran Krita with my art tablet fine, ran games like Skyrim and Planet Zoo on medium graphics. Not a lot of bells and whistles but has a micro SD port, two USB ports and a HDMI port. Cooling pad is pretty much required, unfortunately. Actually browses pretty good! Now that it's on the end of its life I can't play games on high graphics and it gets really warm, but it still uses Firefox well and games on lower graphics. Edit: it also came with Windows 11 and I haven't had any issues with that, either.
ayy same! Just had to replace the charging port and the upper case is cracked in one tiny spot, but that was because my mother accidentally tugged the cord while it was plugged in T-T Otherwise it runs Krita just fine, and while it gets mad sometimes when I have Krita, YT Music, HEE, and Unsplash open at the same time, it puts up with it pretty well. |
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