laptop advice

Forum discussion tagged with laptop advice.
  1. koreysmith

    Question Laptop recommendations ?

    1. What is your budget? $1,000.00 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 14" or 15" 3. What screen resolution do you want? Unsure at this point. 4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? No. 5. How much battery life do you need? 12 hours 6. Do you want...
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    Question HP 250 G8 storage and memory upgrade

    Dear Community, I have an HP 250 G8 6G9RIPA#ACJ FreeDOS laptop. For reference: This model has the following specs:- (1) Intel i3-11th Gen processor. (2) Pre-installed 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD. (3) Pre-installed 8 GB DDR4-2666 MHz RAM. My question here is - (i) whether this particular model has...
  3. J

    Question Suggestions for a new laptop with an RTX 4080 ?

    Hello amazing people! I would like to get a new laptop and I would like to be ready in case something is on offer on black friday. Just FYI I live in Italy and would prefer not to spend much more than 2000 euro. I would like something with an RTX 4080 that will last me a while The thing I care...
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    Question Advice on buying a new laptop for my parents ?

    Hi all, Looking to buy a laptop for my parents and looking for advice. More information below. Please let me know if you have any additional questions or if I haven't thought about something. Thank you all. 1. What is your budget? $500-$600 (can be stretched to $700 if worth it) 2. What is...
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    Need Help with Purchasing a future proof laptop (URGENT)

    Heres my issue. I have to choose between MSI DELTA 15 ( RYZEN9 OCTA CORE 5900 HX , RX 6700M 10GB,16GB OF RAM UPGRADABLE TO 64GB) OR ASUS ROG STRIX G15 ADVANTAGE EDITION ( RYZEN 9 5980HX ,RX 6800M 12 GB AND 16 GBS OF RAM UPGRADABLE TO 32 GB). I just want a laptop that will be the most future...
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    Question Thermal pastes

    I used noctua nt-h1 for my legion y540 and the thermal often pumps out, the temps drop after application for just few minutes then it go high again, the temps for cpu are always high above 90 in gaming and also in idle and just surfing the web or using some lite programs it reaches 95-96 C...
  7. T

    Suggestion for a sub $700 laptop

    Can you please suggest me which of the following below will be the best deal? 1080p, light gaming and general use whenever my computer room is occupied with guests. (I have desktop PC already). I am eyeing for AMD APU since I saw better performance over Iris XE for lower price. Planned games...
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    Question Laptop suggestions for work & gaming ?

    Hi Team, I am looking to get a Laptop in the price range of Rs 70 to 75K for work and slight gaming purpose. I have shortlisted few Laptops, could you please let me know your suggestion so that i can take a proper decision. Hp Pavilion Gaming - 15-Ec2048Ax -...
  9. mgistr

    Question Need help choosing a new laptop. Would you recommend yours?

    1. What is your budget? $1,500-$2,000 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15" to 16" 3. What screen resolution do you want? 1080p or better 4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? It doesn't need to be thin and light but it does have to be compact...
  10. HotDog_water

    Question Is an I3 3rd gen laptop worth upgrading with an eGPU?

    My aunt got this laptop back in 2013, and she gave it to me as a gift. It's a Sony Vaio E series laptop. It was very slow since it only had 2gb of ram, so I bought 2 sticks of 4gb ram to make it usable. Now that I upgraded the ram, I was wondering if I could upgrade it further by buying an eGPU...
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    Question Should I replace or upgrade my laptop?

    Hello, My partner has a Toshiba Satellite C50-B-14D (here is a link to the specs) and it often seizes up quite badly and generally runs very slowly. I recently upgraded the HDD to an SSD in my Lenovo G510 and it has massively increased in speed, but my laptop has a much stronger CPU than the...
  12. R

    Question Laptop Stuck in Automatic Repair Loop - Files WON'T transfer to different device?

    So I have an Asus Q504U, Windows 10 64-bit (latest or 2nd to latest update; i.e. Nov 2019-ish), 12 GB RAM, 1TB storage (which is the issue at hand). On it, there are about 120-200 GB of family photos, school work, and other things. In November the laptop turned off during a Windows Update and...
  13. J

    [SOLVED] What Laptop for 4-6 x 2K monitors

    Just curious if anyone had any recommendations for laptop/docking station/monitor combos that could run 4-6 external 2K monitors? I was thinking one of the new Dell XPS 15 i9 8 core processor laptops or would I even need that much power??? For the monitors I was thinking I could even run 4 wide...
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    [SOLVED] Best laptops for my money.

    Hey I’m looking to buy the best gaming computer for 1k-1.2k please give me your advice.