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Follow up: I Need a New Laptop. Big One. Your Recommendations and Pans?
chickensoup | 04.03.19 | chickensoup

Posted on 04/03/2019 6:14:29 AM PDT by Chickensoup

Notice I posted this to the cheese hole, in hopes of a couple of responses. Prove me wrong...let's see if this thread hits 100...heck 50 from the cheesehole of chat.

As a follow-up to yesterday's post : Tech Ping: Chickensoup is in Hot Water. Computer Died a Horrible Death. Need to Save Its Soul!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3739180/posts

I am now in the market for a new computer.

Your recommendations.

I like powerful computers, money is less of an issue than configuration. This laptop is only moving between desk and home.

Got to haves: 17" screen really fast nice color Good fans and airflows removable battery usb ports 2 or 3 Ethernet port card port for camera cards and others blue tooth wifi

Nice to have CD drive Touch screen doesn't flipping matter.

Sadly I have to move to WIN 10 and upgrade office from 2003.

Your recommendations and experiences would be great.

A big bowl of chickensoup to the recommendation that I choose!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: computer; laptop
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To: wally_bert

Me too. Dell is a very good brand name.


61 posted on 04/03/2019 7:01:15 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Chickensoup
I'm waiting for the industry to come full circle and make my boot sectors portable again.
Boot from Flash!


62 posted on 04/03/2019 7:04:29 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Donald J. Trump, POTUS - May Re-election Be Upon HIm.)
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To: Chickensoup

Then at least 8GB RAM.

I have 16GB RAM plus SSD. Wouldn’t go back to HDD’s. ...but I’m a software architect and usually have virtual machines running other OS’s.


63 posted on 04/03/2019 7:05:07 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Holy Chickensoup!!


64 posted on 04/03/2019 7:05:39 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup
I've bought two computers from Computer Upgrade King, https://cukusa.com, in the past couple years.

Both have 64 GB RAM, big SSD's and are as fast and powerful as all get out.

Running Windows 10 and used for photo editing and video.

No problems, haven't seen anything comparable at lower prices.

65 posted on 04/03/2019 7:05:44 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

It was a simpler time.


66 posted on 04/03/2019 7:06:28 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

No advice, just a bump to get the thread to 100.


67 posted on 04/03/2019 7:06:49 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Chickensoup

Aye, Toshiba or Acer.


68 posted on 04/03/2019 7:08:55 AM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Ooh! Double-sided! Aren't you lucky.

My first computer was a Kaypro II in 1982. Still works.

69 posted on 04/03/2019 7:08:58 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Chickensoup

A Toshiba with a 17” screen?


70 posted on 04/03/2019 7:09:07 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

thanks! this is the busiest I have seen the cheese hole in a long time.

All is well?


71 posted on 04/03/2019 7:09:16 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

You can still buy one on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/TOSHIBA-Tecra-Business-Bluetooth-Professional/dp/B07H7G767P/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=toshiba+satellite&qid=1554300669&s=gateway&sr=8-10


72 posted on 04/03/2019 7:12:57 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: billorites

I’ve kept the 5.25 disks (3!) for the FORTRAN Star Trek game used late at night on the company Digital-PDP 1100 in 1981.

They have probably succumbed to redox-erosion by now but...history fades slowly from the mind.


73 posted on 04/03/2019 7:13:54 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Donald J. Trump, POTUS - May Re-election Be Upon HIm.)
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To: Chickensoup
"Sadly I have to move to WIN 10 and upgrade office from 2003."

Just did this move 2 weeks ago; I feel your pain.

Fortunately, I bought a MacBook Pro 5+ years ago, and I - actually right this very minute - am running iOS and, in another window, MS10. I loaded vMware Fusion, and that allows me to have a virtual Windows environment. I toggle between the OS/screens by moving my cursor to the upper left window, and choosing between the resulting tiny screens. One click, and I've changed environments.

If I were to do it again, I'd do the same thing: get the MB Pro with the most cycles, load up all the RAM it will handle, get 2T+ of solid state and hold onto it for 5+ years.
74 posted on 04/03/2019 7:13:57 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Chickensoup

You cannot beat the HP lightweights for price/performance.

Cannot be done.


75 posted on 04/03/2019 7:14:11 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Chickensoup

That is a nice machine.

So is this. https://us.msi.com/Workstation/WT75


76 posted on 04/03/2019 7:14:54 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: Chickensoup

You don’t give chat enough credit... Most folks are clicking back and forth from news to chat all day long. There is a LOT of good stuff comes into chat.

Besides, quality is more important than quantity.


77 posted on 04/03/2019 7:17:17 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Chickensoup

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch


78 posted on 04/03/2019 7:17:31 AM PDT by kempo
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To: Chickensoup

Very well.


79 posted on 04/03/2019 7:17:56 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: vikingd00d; Chickensoup
>>Sadly I have to move to WIN 10 and upgrade office from 2003.

Just run Linux. This problem and more.. solved.

100% agree! Also, if you are determined to buy a windows flavored laptop, I suggest making sure it is Linux compatible for future upgrades which you will undoubtedly regret if you hadn't. The problem with some laptops is their proprietary drivers that are top secret and keep you shackled to a windows system.

80 posted on 04/03/2019 7:18:11 AM PDT by whodathunkit
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