Question When Should I upgrade my 4th-gen laptop?

[adam.king]

Good Day everyone,

I'm a little bit confused and I don't really think I'd find a better place to discuss my concern than this forum. currently I have a zbook 15 g2 laptop with i7-4910mq, nvidia quadro k2100m, 24 gb of ddr3 ram and 240gb ssd drive.

My concern is, maybe at one day in the near future ( around 2 or 3 years from now ) programs would be so heavy and the device would not be usable at all, so my question is.. Should I get a new laptop or this one is perfectly fine ?

My usage is normal browsing, some coding and light gaming on older titles in general

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

My usage is normal browsing, some coding and light gaming on older titles in general
What sort of apps are you taxing the current laptop with? Might want to also list the games you speak of.

24 gb of ddr3 ram
Can you elaborate on the ram loadout in your laptop?

 

[adam.king]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

My usage is normal browsing, some coding and light gaming on older titles in general
What sort of apps are you taxing the current laptop with? Might want to also list the games you speak of.

24 gb of ddr3 ram
Can you elaborate on the ram loadout in your laptop?

Basic apps like chrome, VS Code, WAMP local server, photoshop. Clip champ sometimes, VMWare, virtual box, and stuff like that.

Games like GTA San Andreas, COD MW, Dirt 3. Most of the games I play are older titles.

My laptop has 4 ram slots, so I have 2*8 + 2*4, the normal daily load is around 11 gb out of the 24. If I opened photoshop or VMWare, that's around 20 gb of total load

 

[USAFRet]

Good Day everyone,

I'm a little bit confused and I don't really think I'd find a better place to discuss my concern than this forum. currently I have a zbook 15 g2 laptop with i7-4910mq, nvidia quadro k2100m, 24 gb of ddr3 ram and 240gb ssd drive.

My concern is, maybe at one day in the near future ( around 2 or 3 years from now ) programs would be so heavy and the device would not be usable at all, so my question is.. Should I get a new laptop or this one is perfectly fine ?

My usage is normal browsing, some coding and light gaming on older titles in general

You upgrade the hardware when the current hardware no longer meets your needs and expectations.

 

[lvt]

My concern is, maybe at one day in the near future ( around 2 or 3 years from now ) programs would be so heavy and the device would not be usable at all, so my question is.. Should I get a new laptop or this one is perfectly fine ?

I browser the web, read PDF docs, watch Youtube @720... and reply to this thread on a 2006 Thinkpad laptop with an Intel mobile T7400 @2Ghz, 3GB RAM and 120GB SSD.

So, unless you are currently using some software or games that require a lot of hardware resource, you don't need to worry about your laptop for the next 2 or 3 years.

The only thing that needs to upgraded, eventually, is the SSD. You could upgrade to a 480GB or 512GB SSD so that the laptop could continue to run smoothly.

 

[adam.king]

Thank you all 🤍🤍

 

[adam.king]

I agree, and I suggest upgrading your SSD. You will likely run out of space with only 240 GB, and you'll need to uninstall programs to make room for new ones. It can be quite tedious when you have to do this.

I've got another 1TB HDD already + there is an extra pci m2 slot for another ssd.

 

[adam.king]

In that case, you won't experience any storage bottlenecks for a while.
So, "lose yourself to dance" 😊

Thank you 🙏

 

[lvt]

So why worry?