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Yup. It's also surprisingly hard to find a decent new laptop these days. About a week ago I started at a new company, and was asked to find a laptop that I wan
by Nullabillity 9y ago
Yup. It's also surprisingly hard to find a decent new laptop these days.
About a week ago I started at a new company, and was asked to find a laptop that I wanted. The cheapest one with a 1TB SSD was ~$2000, and the cheapest one that would be decent out of the box was a $1300 Dell.
Instead I ended up getting a $600 gaming laptoo with a decent CPU, and installed the RAM and SSD myself for $450, ending up with a far better laptop that was still hundreds cheaper than that Dell.
Try doing that with a Mac.
- dagw 9y agoI can certainly see doing that if it's your own money. But if I start a new job and the first thing they do is make me cobble together a laptop of spare parts so that they can save a few hundred bucks, then I'm sending out my resume later that afternoon.
- Nullabillity 9y agoThey didn't ask me to cobble something together, they asked me to find a good laptop below $1500.
- dagw 9y agoI don't know. In my experience if a company won't buy me the laptop I need on day 1, it's a good sign I'm going to be spending the rest of my time there having to fight every time I need a new screen, or hard drive or mouse or just about anything else.
- c256 9y agoThe only gaming laptops I’ve seen that weren’t vastly inferior to both every Mac currently sold and also the EliteBook line from the OP in terms of battery life and portability costs between 3.5-5 times what you said you paid. Mind sharing what make and model you got? Thanks.
- detaro 9y agoMany developer laptops probably live on a desk most of the time, so these two things are easy to sacrifice for many.
- Nullabillity 9y agoMSI GV62 7RD-2030NE. The battery time seems to be ~3-4 hours, which is more than fine when it's connected to an outlet 99.9% of the time. I prioritize decent screen size and a comfortable keyboard far higher than "portability".