I came into this with such hopes. I had found a few laptops in my price range and thought that it would be a snap that one of them would work for me. It should be noted that I won't have ALL the money until possibly the end of the month... but that's alright.
Here are my needs (and why):
Intel i7, preferably 4 core (I bought an amd..... it's been a nightmare from the laptop side. I thought it was an i5 equal, and either i5s aren't doing what they used to, or... yeah, not.)
Minimum 8 gigs of ram and must be upgradable to 16 gigs. (running on 8 now... not going well)
Linux compatible (windows sucks, it takes way too much work to get the hardware to do what it was built to do. It's also heavy, it's a resource hog that acts like you don't need programs, you've got windows. It's hard to configure, you can never get down to the command line and work. Oh, and don't get me started on the file system. It's not as bad as mac, but not by much anymore.)
10 key, because number pad saves my bacon
and a dedicated graphics card
Sounds simple, yes?
No sir!
It will cost me roughly double my budget. I am seriously in the range of custom built machines wanting the specs I want.... My desktop with the most powerful processor ever made (8 core AMD) didn't cost this much. It just makes me hate the whole computer thing. Like I should just go buy a fucking game console and forget about my entire computer life for a few years. Maybe I should. It's not like this is going anywhere.
Here are my needs (and why):
Intel i7, preferably 4 core (I bought an amd..... it's been a nightmare from the laptop side. I thought it was an i5 equal, and either i5s aren't doing what they used to, or... yeah, not.)
Minimum 8 gigs of ram and must be upgradable to 16 gigs. (running on 8 now... not going well)
Linux compatible (windows sucks, it takes way too much work to get the hardware to do what it was built to do. It's also heavy, it's a resource hog that acts like you don't need programs, you've got windows. It's hard to configure, you can never get down to the command line and work. Oh, and don't get me started on the file system. It's not as bad as mac, but not by much anymore.)
10 key, because number pad saves my bacon
and a dedicated graphics card
Sounds simple, yes?
No sir!
It will cost me roughly double my budget. I am seriously in the range of custom built machines wanting the specs I want.... My desktop with the most powerful processor ever made (8 core AMD) didn't cost this much. It just makes me hate the whole computer thing. Like I should just go buy a fucking game console and forget about my entire computer life for a few years. Maybe I should. It's not like this is going anywhere.
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