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Honestly, I don't think there's a laptop out there that can't handle Windows 10. In fact, I suspect it might actually run smoother and feel a bit snappier. I'm not entirely sure what your specific setup allows for regarding the upgrade, but I personally jumped from 8.1 over to 10 on both a nine-year-old ThinkPad and my newer desktop. Both were running Windows 7 before that. Interestingly enough, that old ThinkPad actually struggled quite a bit with Windows 7, but once I moved it to 10, it started singing—even with an ancient Pentium processor and just 3GB of RAM, though I did swap in an SSD 🙂
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Also, if you haven't done it yet, I'd really suggest what I mentioned before—maybe grab at least a 60GB SSD specifically for your OS and main programs? My advice would be to format that big hard drive during the new installation and split it into two partitions. If you set aside about 100-150GB on the first one for Windows and your essential apps, it should make things much easier.
Cheers!
Honestly, I don't think there's a laptop out there that can't handle Windows 10. In fact, I suspect it might actually run smoother and feel a bit snappier. I'm not entirely sure what your specific setup allows for regarding the upgrade, but I personally jumped from 8.1 over to 10 on both a nine-year-old ThinkPad and my newer desktop. Both were running Windows 7 before that. Interestingly enough, that old ThinkPad actually struggled quite a bit with Windows 7, but once I moved it to 10, it started singing—even with an ancient Pentium processor and just 3GB of RAM, though I did swap in an SSD 🙂
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Also, if you haven't done it yet, I'd really suggest what I mentioned before—maybe grab at least a 60GB SSD specifically for your OS and main programs? My advice would be to format that big hard drive during the new installation and split it into two partitions. If you set aside about 100-150GB on the first one for Windows and your essential apps, it should make things much easier.
Cheers!
Look, anything is possible—you might even have some kind of glitch or malware hiding in your Windows setup, I don't know, but those "23 problematic issues" people talk about aren't exactly something you can just ignore right out of the gate. 🤷
Anyway, sticking with Windows 8.1 isn't exactly winning any prizes. Honestly, I’d say just upgrade to Windows 10; you should notice a pretty massive difference! Windows 10 feels way more fluid, like it actually has room to breathe. That's probably why they didn't bother with updates for 8 and just pushed everyone straight to 10.
As for how fast it opens folders, that usually comes down to the hard drive. If you haven't set up a Partition and everything is just crammed onto one single 1TB drive—the OS, all your programs, every single file... well, fragmentation happens a lot faster that way. But I guess that's pretty common knowledge by now.
If, for example, your videos are playing smoothly and YouTube works fine in your browser, then I don't think you're looking at a huge deal-breaker.
And if it helps at all, =2005&cmp[]=2388']I just dug this up—it's a Benchmark comparing those two processors —and it turns out the AMD chip actually beats the Celeron!
So, yeah... if that even matters...
Anyway, sticking with Windows 8.1 isn't exactly winning any prizes. Honestly, I’d say just upgrade to Windows 10; you should notice a pretty massive difference! Windows 10 feels way more fluid, like it actually has room to breathe. That's probably why they didn't bother with updates for 8 and just pushed everyone straight to 10.
As for how fast it opens folders, that usually comes down to the hard drive. If you haven't set up a Partition and everything is just crammed onto one single 1TB drive—the OS, all your programs, every single file... well, fragmentation happens a lot faster that way. But I guess that's pretty common knowledge by now.
If, for example, your videos are playing smoothly and YouTube works fine in your browser, then I don't think you're looking at a huge deal-breaker.
And if it helps at all, =2005&cmp[]=2388']I just dug this up—it's a Benchmark comparing those two processors —and it turns out the AMD chip actually beats the Celeron!
So, yeah... if that even matters...
The Dell is actually a much better pick as a laptop because it includes a few key "little things" that the HP just lacks; the processor supports DDR3L-1600 (whereas that Celeron is stuck with a slower DDR3L-1333), plus you get 3 USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet, a hard drive that's twice as big, and a DVD burner.
Now, I guess neither of those two processors are exactly speed demons—the Celeron might be slightly faster, maybe, but at least the AMD has four cores and decent graphics. You could probably give it a massive boost by swapping in an SSD, assuming it's easy enough to reach the slot through the bottom panel? If not, you could always just grab an external enclosure for the current drive and call it a day.🙂
ps. Honestly, I don't think you'd gain anything by swapping out that HP (even if they’d actually agree to a trade now that the OS is already installed... though I highly doubt they would).
Now, I guess neither of those two processors are exactly speed demons—the Celeron might be slightly faster, maybe, but at least the AMD has four cores and decent graphics. You could probably give it a massive boost by swapping in an SSD, assuming it's easy enough to reach the slot through the bottom panel? If not, you could always just grab an external enclosure for the current drive and call it a day.🙂
ps. Honestly, I don't think you'd gain anything by swapping out that HP (even if they’d actually agree to a trade now that the OS is already installed... though I highly doubt they would).
I don't even need an expensive laptop
in Laptops ·
So, maybe this one could work, especially if there’s an extra discount on top— Acer E5-573G-P7NS notebook Price: $833
To be honest, I don't think Walmart really has a great selection, and their prices always seem a bit high!
Maybe at Best Buy, with a 5% discount, you could find something like a Lenovo or maybe a Toshiba with an Intel Pentium N3540 that fits within that budget limit.
Just a heads-up though when looking at Lenovo! For instance, this IdeaPad 100-15IBY model (80MJ00DASC) also uses the Pentium N3540, but I've read it has a pretty terrible build quality. The reviews are actually quite bad because the chassis feels cheap and it tends to overheat like crazy.
Then there's also this Dell with a 5% discount
To be honest, I don't think Walmart really has a great selection, and their prices always seem a bit high!
Maybe at Best Buy, with a 5% discount, you could find something like a Lenovo or maybe a Toshiba with an Intel Pentium N3540 that fits within that budget limit.
Just a heads-up though when looking at Lenovo! For instance, this IdeaPad 100-15IBY model (80MJ00DASC) also uses the Pentium N3540, but I've read it has a pretty terrible build quality. The reviews are actually quite bad because the chassis feels cheap and it tends to overheat like crazy.
Then there's also this Dell with a 5% discount
Where's the best place to buy a laptop?
in Laptops ·
Yeah, just like swiftbear7 mentioned, sites like PriceGrabber don't actually show you the full picture. You really have to dig through a ton of clutter to find anything better than those big-name retailers who just hike up their prices whenever they feel like it. It’s kind of funny how companies like Amazon work, too—they might drop prices over the weekend just to grab attention, but then by Monday morning, everything is back up, and suddenly they aren't even competitive anymore. Like, they'll offer free shipping, but then you realize the base price is so inflated that the "deal" totally disappears. I think Best Buy usually has some decent offers if you look closely. I was actually hunting for something myself recently and noticed on IBM that they had some pretty interesting deals; some devices were actually hundreds of dollars cheaper there compared to everywhere else!
It’s honestly super helpful to use Opera and install the PriceGrabber plug-in. Once you pull up a page with a specific price, it immediately pops up other offers so you can see if you're actually getting a good deal!
It’s honestly super helpful to use Opera and install the PriceGrabber plug-in. Once you pull up a page with a specific price, it immediately pops up other offers so you can see if you're actually getting a good deal!