Vulnerabilities found in Dell BIOSConnect features within Dell SupportAssist

Any 5ish year old laptop will work perfectly for just that. If your current one is doing well, keep it. Faster CPU, GPU, drives or more memory will not give you but a marginal improvement. The only thing you would need to care about is the size, screen, battery life and keyboard comfort. When you are ready to get a new one don’t buy the leading edge (bleeding edge) stuff. Too much $ for the incremental better-ness. Look for last years model on close out.

As for brands, I avoid Dell, and HP. Personally I go with Clevo or MSI most of the time, but their laptops are high end commodity laptops for gamers, developers and engineers. No benefit for what you are doing with yours.

Forget Apple since they mark their stuff up way beyond what the performance diff is. Their premium is for the training wheels you get on their stuff and the snooty attitude you can have saying “I can afford this fisher price computer because I am to dumb to make decisions myself. Now make me a soy grande macchiato with matcha tea sprinkled on the whipped vegan psuedo cream on top.”

LegendHasIt :" Dell’s suck anyway. They are designed to fail, designed to be irreparable. At least their laptops. "

As I understand it, all their hardware and software are proprietary owned d by Dell.
You don't own it,.. you just think that you do !
This BIOS software issue is just an example...

More than likely yes. New OS release is a good time for laptop shopping. Anything new with 10 will be able to upgrade, but who wants to buy an outdated laptop. (Except $ smart people)

You might be able to pick up a bargain. Places like Office Depot or Staples will very likely clearance out the older models when the new shiny 11’s come out.

For you I think touching and feeling the laptop is important.

I never asked... what do you have now?

LOL... you could do with an update. Keep an eye out starting now. No one will be want to be stuck with “old stock” and expect 11 on or around Oct. 20

Install Linux Mint on the old satellite to breathe lots of new life into it when you have upgraded. Be careful though. Once you have seen just how well Mint runs and how easy the transition is for a windows user, you might just upgrade your new Laptop to it as well.

Antivirus... Linux dont need no steenking antivirus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1lyNt5km8U

(Linux doesnt phone home to the MS mothership either)

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