Hello everyone. This is my first post here. I decided to join because I really need some help, specifically from anyone who both knows their stuff about pc hardware/components and how to compare, match, and choose them, and also enjoys just talking about them - and more importantly has some 'free time' now to help out.
Im going to link a video I just watched, after having spent weeks hemming and hawing over what to do and what to buy.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A1VAtOmqce4
You might notice it's a mobile link, that's because I'm in a "dire" situation, haha. Macbook pro down - amd GPU failure. Other house laptop down - garbage, cracker jack windows laptop that deserves no mention. So this "research" has to be done on an Android phone.
So, this video re: intel naming schemes helped me confirm that it wasn't just me. And that it's near impossible for even a novice to understand and compare without quite a bit of effort.
To the point, I understand it's probably impossible to get the individual components to build a pc right now. So I'd been looking into refurb think pads and then even thinkcenters (because the screens on T430 and similar are junk, and 14" is too small for the eyes of who I'm mainly getting this computer for - and mine soon, especially after doing all this on a phone screen).
Lenovo.ca (I'm in Canada) has a sale/clearance on now which might end today (they said first week of April - vague). I just can't figuelre out from looking what's the better deal than the other; ideacenter 3i, 5i, ideacenter 5 AMD, I don't get the logic of the pricing etc.
Id also been looking at a refurb thinkcenter m93p with a core i7 something (4th gen someone said) for $300.
What do I need? Email, web browsing with many (12-16) tabs open, hd video playback (local) and streaming, word processing / spreadsheeting, possible minor photo "editing" (I hesitatate to even mention this, for price concerns), and also *to do some of these tasks at the same time (multitask), *and to do them with ease - not to struggle doing them.
Price is hard to say, depends on value of what I'm getting / options of what's available. Up to $700 cad, I'd guess, just because that's the price I was considering on a particular model at lenovo.ca (after tax). But obviously, a refurbed T430 or m93p is only about $300 or so cad.
Im not stuck on "Lenovo", I just want a quality, capable machine, now - haha.
If someone has the time and wants to help me out, either picking available parts to build, or finding and choosing a prebuilt pc, that would be amazing and I'd be grateful.
Note: if bumping the price up slightly get a way better "deal" ie value, that's possible.
I have an older relative trying to do their zoom meetings and such on a galaxy phone screen now, and its killing me (not to mention them.)
Thanks so much for reading. Much appreciated.
Im going to link a video I just watched, after having spent weeks hemming and hawing over what to do and what to buy.
You might notice it's a mobile link, that's because I'm in a "dire" situation, haha. Macbook pro down - amd GPU failure. Other house laptop down - garbage, cracker jack windows laptop that deserves no mention. So this "research" has to be done on an Android phone.
So, this video re: intel naming schemes helped me confirm that it wasn't just me. And that it's near impossible for even a novice to understand and compare without quite a bit of effort.
To the point, I understand it's probably impossible to get the individual components to build a pc right now. So I'd been looking into refurb think pads and then even thinkcenters (because the screens on T430 and similar are junk, and 14" is too small for the eyes of who I'm mainly getting this computer for - and mine soon, especially after doing all this on a phone screen).
Lenovo.ca (I'm in Canada) has a sale/clearance on now which might end today (they said first week of April - vague). I just can't figuelre out from looking what's the better deal than the other; ideacenter 3i, 5i, ideacenter 5 AMD, I don't get the logic of the pricing etc.
Id also been looking at a refurb thinkcenter m93p with a core i7 something (4th gen someone said) for $300.
What do I need? Email, web browsing with many (12-16) tabs open, hd video playback (local) and streaming, word processing / spreadsheeting, possible minor photo "editing" (I hesitatate to even mention this, for price concerns), and also *to do some of these tasks at the same time (multitask), *and to do them with ease - not to struggle doing them.
Price is hard to say, depends on value of what I'm getting / options of what's available. Up to $700 cad, I'd guess, just because that's the price I was considering on a particular model at lenovo.ca (after tax). But obviously, a refurbed T430 or m93p is only about $300 or so cad.
Im not stuck on "Lenovo", I just want a quality, capable machine, now - haha.
If someone has the time and wants to help me out, either picking available parts to build, or finding and choosing a prebuilt pc, that would be amazing and I'd be grateful.
Note: if bumping the price up slightly get a way better "deal" ie value, that's possible.
I have an older relative trying to do their zoom meetings and such on a galaxy phone screen now, and its killing me (not to mention them.)
Thanks so much for reading. Much appreciated.
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