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I am going to college soon and this requires me to purchase a laptop. I was wondering if 500GB would be enough for my college education needs. Storage is all I need to know about.
Thanks for your answers.
 
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Again, that's exactly my point.... brand names don't matter but if I can't find a link, I can't read the specs or offer an alternative. I searched on the model number and got no hits so thanks for the link

Looking around some more I did find it for about 760 euro which is worth about $825 US

If you are unhappy with any particular component(s), I'd suggest looking for a Clevo reseller in your area. They "build to suit" and you can pick upgrades for most components. There's a list of resellers here

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-resellers-in-the-european-union-v1.652403/

As for Win 10. all 7 amd 8 owners can get Win 10 simply by registering. Windows update for 7 / 8 users has install ed an "upgrade" icon on the task...
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Depends what you do with it.... I have 25 years if Drawings, Specifications and business records and it takes up a merer 100 GB.

A single game can take up 40 GB and large music, movie libraries will eat up GB fast.

Our laptops are used for preparing Field Drawings in AutoCAD and the 7200 rpm 750 GB SSHDs serve us extremely well in that department. If you pick a laptop that lets you pick your components, you may find very little difference in cost for various HD sizes.

For example.... the following comes standard w/ a 1TB drive and offers various alternatives for upgrades at the costs listed

http://www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np7339-features.html

1 TB HGST Travelstar™ 7K1000 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - Special! $0.00
Crucial® BX100 120GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD $20.00
120GB Samsung® 850 EVO Series SATA3 Solid State Drive $25.00
1TB Seagate Solid State Hybrid 8GB ST1000LM014 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s $60.00
Crucial® BX100 250GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD $65.00
2TB 5400 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive $85.00
250GB Samsung® 850 EVO Series SATA3 Solid State Drive $85.00
Samsung® 256GB 850 Pro Series SSD with 3D V-NAND Architecture $120.00
Intel® 730 Series 240GB Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s $145.00
Crucial® BX100 500GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD $170.00
500GB Samsung® 850 EVO Series SATA3 Solid State Drive $190.00
Intel® 730 Series 480GB Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s $285.00
1TB Samsung 850 EVO Series SATA3 Solid State Drive $365.00
Crucial® BX100 1TB SATA 6Gb/s SSD $370.00
1TB Samsung® 850 Pro Series SATA3 Solid State Disk Drive $475.00
 
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I will be using it for both programming and gaming.
In case u wondered which laptop im trying to go for ; HP PAVILION 15-P238ND
 
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Brand names aren't particularly important ... it's kinda funny watching peeps arguing over which brand makes the better stuff when none of them actually make anything and they are all made in the very same factories. "The vast majority of laptops on the market (94% in 2011) are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China.

Major relationships include:

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP
MSI Makes thier own
Clevo makes their own and sells direct through distributors or under the Sager retail arm.

have a link ? ... did a search and came up dry 1st 2 pages
 
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The reason I listed it was so you could check out the specifications of the laptop. I really couldn't care less about brand.
But link to website ( is in Dutch though ) : http://www.laptopshop.nl/product/572163/hp-pavilion-15-p238nd.html#product_specifications

Specifications :
Screen
15.6 Inch
Full HD ( 1080p )
Anti-Glare
TN panel

Processor
Intel Core I5 5200U Dual Core ( 2.2GHz - 2.7 GHz )
Broadwell

Memory
8 GB RAM
1 slot so can't expand for more RAM

Storage
HDD, Cache SSD
Cache SSD ; 8 GB
HDD ; 500 GB ( 5400 RPM )
Memory Card ; SD

Videocard
Dedicated
Nvidia GeForce GT 840M 4GB

USB
Amount USB ports ; 3
Amount 2.0 USB ports ; 1
Amount 3.0 USB ports ; 2

Operating System
Windows 8.1 ( upgradeable to Windows 10 )

Also is it smart to upgrade to windows 10 if possible? I haven't heard alot about this.
 
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Again, that's exactly my point.... brand names don't matter but if I can't find a link, I can't read the specs or offer an alternative. I searched on the model number and got no hits so thanks for the link

Looking around some more I did find it for about 760 euro which is worth about $825 US

If you are unhappy with any particular component(s), I'd suggest looking for a Clevo reseller in your area. They "build to suit" and you can pick upgrades for most components. There's a list of resellers here

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-resellers-in-the-european-union-v1.652403/

As for Win 10. all 7 amd 8 owners can get Win 10 simply by registering. Windows update for 7 / 8 users has install ed an "upgrade" icon on the task bar...once registered, the upgrade us automatic via WU.
 
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I actually got it for €699. I looked similiar specs around this price but I couldn't find any.
 
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