JCD69

Sorry I couldn’t really give a budget because idk what laptops go for. Looking for something for a few hundred dollars or less probably.

Hello! I am not typically a laptop person and don’t really know much about the laptop space in terms of what are good brands, features, price, etc. However, I do know components and am an experienced desktop builder. Anyways, I have found myself to be wanting a cheap laptop that can of course satisfy general use (which I already have) and more importantly light gaming (which my current laptop cannot do). I just need it to comfortable run WOW, LOL, and such games on medium settings. I am not wanting amazing performance and want to prioritize something cheap that gets the job done over higher performance. what would be some great used options? I just want to run 1080, 60hz, at least 60fps wow, & LOL. Would of course be nice to get a screen with higher refresh rate or something with an IPS panel that gets bright or helps to negate glare. Thank you!

Yeah bummer about not upgrading the ram. I think swapping a faster ssd would give it some good life.

No I don't even use one of them right now. I will use one in the future but right now not a chance I would use both.

Any point in selling both and getting something for about $1000? Just kind of thought of that idea.

I may do so, but I'm still a little un-decided on which laptop to keep. I really won't be pushing the laptop hard just web browsing, homework, writing papers, office etc...

It was running pretty well on windows 10 and I swapped to Ubuntu and now it just feels really slow and sluggish. I wonder if I can just lookup this laptop and what pads I would need?

Alrighty, maybe I should. Hp laptop just runs so slow and sluggish on Linux. Re-paste as in thermal paste for the cpu? And I'm not familiar with "repad".

Yeah for sure, the 2013-2014 macbook pro's are considered 'the best' and will probably last longer and hold their value better. My issue is that I installed linux on the HP laptop and it just feels so slow and sluggish. I slightly prefer the macbook pro and I know it will hold it's value longer. I just don't want to let 1 laptop sit around let alone 2 and then lose potentially more money by waiting to sell. And I want someone to be able to get some use out of one of them.

So as the title states I have 2 laptops and I'm not really sure which one I should sell and which one I should keep. My wife has a new ipad that she uses and my old desktop PC, while I have a new desktop PC that I pretty strictly use. Laptops only get use in very certain situations and stuff like traveling. So even as is we probably don't even need 2 laptops but in the future I will have some college classes in person that I will probably need a laptop for. Right now my thought process is to sell the HP laptop and then upgrade the Macbook Ram & storage and then put linux on it and call it a day. I'm just not sure what I want to do and was hoping for some good insight from fellow LTT members. The laptops: Apple Macbook Pro Mid 2014 (3GHZ Core I7, 16gb 1600 MHZ DDR3, 256GB SSD) Seems to go for about $500-$600 on Ebay HP Spectre X360 2017 (2.7GHz I7-7500U, 16GB ram, 512GB SSD) Goes for about $500-$600 on Ebay as well.

Just looking for suggestions for a 24” 1080x1920 monitor to use as a second vertical monitor. Looking for something in the $100 range hopefully IPS panel and vesa mount.

Looking for advice here. So I bought the Dell S2716DG monitor which is a 144hz 1440p TN 1ms Gsync monitor and I had the first one for about 6 months or so and then it had issues and had to get a replacement. The process was fairly simple and they sent me a 2nd one but then another 6-8 months later and it had issues. They then send me a 3rd replacement and the next day it had a white screen of death and wasn't working. Now I'm waiting on a 4th replacement that they said it won't be in stock and ship for a few weeks. So now I'm wondering if I should Just out right buy this monitor: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TD94TQF/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1#customerReviews And then try and sell mine on craigslist as new in the box when It arrives since it has warranty etc... Or should I just wait until this 4th one gets here and hope it's solid? I don't know if I'm just having bad luck or what.

Old Monitor is the S2716DG haha Dell was offering me either as a replacement because the S2716DG had an issue but they had it back stock. Decided to stay with current monitor.

Would I just get something like this then? 100ft https://mainframecustom.com/shop/cable-sleeving/teleios-fusion-black-silver-25ft/ ? and then I need a heat gun right?

Good to know, I may go with the freesync option but I'm still not 100% sure. Apparently the backlight bleed is bad on the freesync version.