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I'm even finding this with laptops now. I bought a high-end laptop a couple of years ago and it seems that a new one today at the same price wouldn't make a lot
by seanwilson 11y ago
I'm even finding this with laptops now. I bought a high-end laptop a couple of years ago and it seems that a new one today at the same price wouldn't make a lot of difference to my day-to-day usage.
- pjmlp 11y agoI jumped into laptops around 2000. The trick is to buy models that you can replace battery, memory and HD. Already that brings the laptop a very long life, before the motherboard or screen eventually die. Or even the memory limit doesn't help anylonger. But even in 2016, 4GB - 8GB are still good enough if one isn't running VMs or development environments like InteliJ.
- seanwilson 11y agoSo I bought 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD drive. I only come close to the RAM usage when running multiple virtual box instances, I don't use all the disk and it's fast, and my battery still lasts about 10 hours.