I want to buy a laptop to replace my old Lenovo Ideapad 330. Quite frankly, that thing is a piece of crap. Maybe it's just full of dust by now, but it takes a solid 5 minutes to fully boot up, and I had to switch to Chrome because it could barely handle Firefox. I've tried cleaning things on the software side to no avail. The main thing I want in a new laptop is avoiding this. Maybe it had an overheating problem or something, idk. It had 4GB RAM so I'm looking for 8-16. Will be running Windows 11.
I'm learning 3D modelling & animation in Blender, but surprisingly it's actually handled that pretty well, so not too concerned there (smoother FPS would be nice tho). Other than that I'll be watching movies & playing some games, like Cities Skylines or some of the old COD/Far Cry games. It'd be great if it can run Doom Eternal, or Battlefield 1/2042, but I'm not sure I'll be able to find one that can within my budget. I don't care about screen size since I have a monitor. It'll also be ethernet connected instead of wifi 90% of the time.
My budget is sub-$250, sub-$100 if I can manage it, so I've been scouring eBay as I've had lots of good luck there in the past, but I'm unfamiliar with what to look for these days. I have no idea what the difference is between an i5-4200U or an i3-1115G4 for example. Or AMD equivalents. Or integrated graphics.
Is there some convenient list/compilation somewhere explaining that sort of thing? I don't have the time I did as a kid to spend hours learning about different CPUs, lol
TIA!
I'm learning 3D modelling & animation in Blender, but surprisingly it's actually handled that pretty well, so not too concerned there (smoother FPS would be nice tho). Other than that I'll be watching movies & playing some games, like Cities Skylines or some of the old COD/Far Cry games. It'd be great if it can run Doom Eternal, or Battlefield 1/2042, but I'm not sure I'll be able to find one that can within my budget. I don't care about screen size since I have a monitor. It'll also be ethernet connected instead of wifi 90% of the time.
My budget is sub-$250, sub-$100 if I can manage it, so I've been scouring eBay as I've had lots of good luck there in the past, but I'm unfamiliar with what to look for these days. I have no idea what the difference is between an i5-4200U or an i3-1115G4 for example. Or AMD equivalents. Or integrated graphics.
Is there some convenient list/compilation somewhere explaining that sort of thing? I don't have the time I did as a kid to spend hours learning about different CPUs, lol
TIA!
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