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shaselai1

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I currently have a 2-3 year old Dell latitude and its working OK. I bought it on blackfriday for 500ish and it has a 256 SSD i installed as the only "add on".
Current issues:
  1. The touchscreen is worthless. It starts to act up (i think some particle collected on bottom) and it keeps thinking i am constantly pointing on the bottom - i had to turn it off.
  2. The power issue - the power insert is loose/broken and apparently many had similar issues. Basically the power plug doesnt stay intact - a slight motion of moving the laptop could make the power cord fall off. I did some research and if i were to get it fixed through repair person, it will cost ~200 for labor+ part IF the issue is fixed. That is about 1/2 of the laptop's value at this point.
I use the laptop for streaming, surfing and light game playing. I do play games but console is my go to so if i need a replacement i am not looking to pay like 3k+ for a gaming laptop.

Just wondering if it is better for me to see what's in store for black friday for a performance laptop (~1k) or get this fixed and let it carry for another year?
I did see an existing laptop that seems to be decent - not sure to jump on it or wait till november?:
https://slickdeals.net/f/13406977-m...ide Expired&src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1



Requirements for potential new laptop:
Touchscreen optional(better not have it..)
~1000$ but can accept ridiculous good deals that are above 1000.
Capable of playing some games - i see myself maybe play a couple of PC games a year if even that, so top tier GPU types is really overkill for me.
This will be my ONLY "PC device". I dont have a tablet or desktop. So durability is a thing. Battery life not a deal breaker.


Also, if i want to keep my SSD contents, should i transfer data to a thumb drive then import into new laptop and sell the SSD or straightup switch SSDs? I believe i would need to fix windows install etc. if i switch?
 
shaselai1 said:
I currently have a 2-3 year old Dell latitude and its working OK. I bought it on blackfriday for 500ish and it has a 256 SSD i installed as the only "add on".
Current issues:
  1. The touchscreen is worthless. It starts to act up (i think some particle collected on bottom) and it keeps thinking i am constantly pointing on the bottom - i had to turn it off.
  2. The power issue - the power insert is loose/broken and apparently many had similar issues. Basically the power plug doesnt stay intact - a slight motion of moving the laptop could make the power cord fall off. I did some research and if i were to get it fixed through repair person, it will cost ~200 for labor+ part IF the issue is fixed. That is about 1/2 of the laptop's value at this point.
I use the laptop for streaming, surfing and light game playing. I do play games but console is my go to so if i need a replacement i am not looking to pay like 3k+ for a gaming laptop.

Just wondering if it is better for me to see what's in store for black friday for a performance laptop (~1k) or get this fixed and let it carry for another year?
I did see an existing laptop that seems to be decent - not sure to jump on it or wait till november?:
https://slickdeals.net/f/13406977-msi-gl75-raider-gaming-laptop-9th-gen-intel-core-i7-9750h-geforce-gtx-1660-ti-1080p-costco-online-only-starts-from-09-26-2019-1000?attrsrc=Test:HideExpiredSearch:Hide Expired&src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1



Requirements for potential new laptop:
Touchscreen optional(better not have it..)
~1000$ but can accept ridiculous good deals that are above 1000.
Capable of playing some games - i see myself maybe play a couple of PC games a year if even that, so top tier GPU types is really overkill for me.
This will be my ONLY "PC device". I dont have a tablet or desktop. So durability is a thing. Battery life not a deal breaker.


Also, if i want to keep my SSD contents, should i transfer data to a thumb drive then import into new laptop and sell the SSD or straightup switch SSDs? I believe i would need to fix windows install etc. if i switch?
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Depends what games, I tend to always reccomend MacBooks because they dominate windows for just general use. But the air and 13” pro don’t have dedicated GPUs, the ones that do get hot and though you can buy a thunderbolt 3 EGPU box for not a ton they’re limited to AMD on Mac and there aren’t a ton of games on Mac.
 
LordVile said:
Depends what games, I tend to always reccomend MacBooks because they dominate windows for just general use. But the air and 13” pro don’t have dedicated GPUs, the ones that do get hot and though you can buy a thunderbolt 3 EGPU box for not a ton they’re limited to AMD on Mac and there aren’t a ton of games on Mac.
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no macs. cant stand the interface lol.
 
LordVile said:
Have you ever used one? I’ve both W10 and MacOS as my daily OS and MacOS once you get to grips is far easier to use.
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i have. actually my mom has a few and whenever i had to use one i just didnt like the interface. The mouse was annoying too.
 
geofelt said:
I have always liked the lenovo laptops.
Here is one which can be customized as you wish:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptop...-series/Lenovo-Legion-Y540-17IRH/p/81T30002US

They are always having sales and deals so shop carefully.
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Hmm i did try customize one... It seems having i7, 16gb memory, 144mhz display and upgrade graphics rtx are no brainer? it comes out ~1400. think something like this can be brought down to ~1k black friday? i think the MSI from costco is comparable?
 
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