[Red Badger]

Ping!.....................

[z3n]

For me, it used to be that the best Desktop you could get was to build one. You start by finding the MoBo with the best specs for the performance hardware (chip, ram, video, boards) you want to run, and remember not to skimp on the power supply and cooling.

[cyclotic]

We just bought a new desktop. That was my wife’s choice. I don’t use it much and don’t even know what kind it is.

[The Louiswu]

IMHO HP’s are junk. In order to get a good pc you should build one. Go here...https://pcpartpicker.com/ and do a little research. Desktop pc’s are actually easy to assemble if you follow the instructions and there are many videos on building a pc on youtube.

[Georgia Girl 2]

17 years in business HP all day long. They are fantastic.

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

Personally, if I were to buy a desktop, it would be a Thelio

[oh8eleven]

I have bought Dell refurbished laptops and desktops (from Dell) for the last 20 years and in all that time I've only had one problem.

[SkyDancer]

HP, DELL and Apple are junk - everyone I work with who has one hates them after being talked into buying them; as one person said about HP -it stands for: High Priced, Hardly Practical. DELL customer support is a joke and Apple is just high priced - costs way more than they’re worth.

[CodeJockey]

My next one will be a MAC book. Windows has to be the spawn of the devil. It is a horrible OS.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Bkmrk

[PIF]

Bought a mac mini in 2006 and still going strong - only draw back is cannot use the latest OSes.

[ConservativeMind]

One of the truly great things around AMD processors is the upgrade path allowed by its processor socket and chipset design. People with three or four year old boards may have the capability to buy and use a new AMD processor simply by removing the current CPU and replacing it. Of course, you may need to see if software updates are also needed, but this is a common option.

Intel constantly changes pin counts and configurations to force buying a new motherboard, which to 99% of all people, means you buy a new computer instead of swapping both the motherboard and processor.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Why hide the speed of these computers?

Do they have the cooling needed to support continued operations?

Even the best laptops have cooling issues and throttle down. I laugh when they talk about phones displacing computers. For idiots maybe.

[Buttons12]

I have a bunch of HP laptops and an Asus, and my Mac is better for video editing but otherwise I’d say a basic laptop running Windows is good enough. They live long and behave well.
However, Windows 10 is not a great improvement over Windows 7.

[zeugma]

I have one of the Intel NUC devices. I use it as a media player, with the HDMI out going to my stereo, and from there to the TV. Works great!

OTOH, I don’t really see why so many systems with i5 chips are on this list. Even being 10th generation, you’re still looking at pretty old tech. I have an i9 (16-cores) in the desktop that I built from scratch early last year. When I build a box, I expect to use it for 10 years. Prior to my current desktop I had a 9yo i7. The only reason I ended up deciding to upgrade is because I use VMWare for some work stuff, and the new version wouldn’t run on my older i7 because of some of the new virtualization instructions it expected to be present.

[Political Junkie Too]

I have a Microsoft Surface Book (version 1), and it is suffering from the known problem of battery expansion from overheating that is pushing the screen away from the frame.

I desperately need a new laptop, but I'm looking for a high-end performance machine like Razer, MSI, or Alienware. The problem is that the newest versions aren't out yet (they said March, now April, but with chip shortages who knows).

I haven't made up my mind on what to get, so I'm hoping my Surface Book hangs on and doesn't explode or something in the meantime.

-PJ

[bitt]

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[Mr. Jeeves]

I have a couple of business iMacs from 2010 that are still going strong and used every single day. No PC from that era managed to escape the landfill. :)

But I will say there was a drop in Apple product quality after Steve Jobs passed away. Some more recent machines we owned from the 2012-2016 era did not fare as well as the two old iMacs.

[AppyPappy]

I just build my own desktop