Is this good for cashier

[Jar3av123]

I need a laptop for my aunt she's a cashier is 8gb ram and i5 520m with 500gb good enough i found one for about 70 us dollars 

 

[Dedayog]

7 minutes ago, Jar3av123 said:

I need a laptop for my aunt she's a cashier is 8gb ram and i5 520m with 500gb good enough i found one for about 70 us dollars 

 

is she going to use it as a Cash Register machine?  If so, in what capacity?  Connecting to a Square dongle and process payments? Or she just does that for her job?

 

For $70, it's a 13 year old machine that MAY work fine for simple tasks.

[tkitch]

8 minutes ago, Jar3av123 said:

I need a laptop for my aunt she's a cashier is 8gb ram and i5 520m with 500gb good enough i found one for about 70 us dollars 

 

I would absolutely not run that.  A 13 year old laptop is well beyond its expected lifespan.

 

What are the actual requirements for what she needs to do

[manikyath]

i'm confused by what you mean with "for a cashier"?

 

are you just saying she's a cashier and just happens to need a laptop on the cheap.. or is this a laptop to be used by a cashier for their cashier duties?

 

because if the latter - you should be buying something reliable, because downtime means income lost.

 

and if the former... the point that your aunt is a cashier is entirely irrelevant.

[8tg]

As mentioned above, is this just that you need a laptop for her on a budget? Or is this going to be used as a POS machine?

 

First gen i series will do ok enough with modern usage, it’ll support windows 10 or current Linux fine, YouTube and web browsers in general won’t have any issues on it.

Id be more concerned about the age of the machine in general, where you’d rarely see any effective battery life left, so you’d more than likely need a new battery.

[OhYou_]

no, 8gb of ram is not enough for any modern payment processing website.
for gods sake for $70 you can buy a much newer laptop
dont buy anything without tpm2.0

[da na]

55 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

no, 8gb of ram is not enough for any modern payment processing website.

lmao what payment processing website are you using??? 8 tabs and some background apps don't even hit 4GB

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Also why is TPM 2 so important?

i5 520m is not the strongest of CPUs even from the first-gen, but if it's in good shape (EG working battery) $70 is not a bad deal. Although I do assume that drive is a HDD not an SSD. 

If the battery isn't good and the drive is a HDD, $70 is too much. I'd pay at most $50 for it in that case.

[OhYou_]

21 minutes ago, da na said:

8 tabs and some background apps don't even hit 4GB

windows 11 itself consumes like 5GB. I'm doing nothing with my laptop and its at 12GB of ram used

[da na]

5 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

windows 11 itself consumes like 5GB. I'm doing nothing with my laptop and its at 12GB of ram used

Bizarre, I've never seen usage anywhere near that high at idle.

 

Windows 10/11 generally run a few web browser tabs totally fine with 8GB RAM.

[Jar3av123]

19 hours ago, manikyath said:

i'm confused by what you mean with "for a cashier"?

 

are you just saying she's a cashier and just happens to need a laptop on the cheap.. or is this a laptop to be used by a cashier for their cashier duties?

 

because if the latter - you should be buying something reliable, because downtime means income lost.

 

and if the former... the point that your aunt is a cashier is entirely irrelevant.

She needs for work plus she is a economist not cashier 

[Jar3av123]

19 hours ago, Dedayog said:

is she going to use it as a Cash Register machine?  If so, in what capacity?  Connecting to a Square dongle and process payments? Or she just does that for her job?

 

For $70, it's a 13 year old machine that MAY work fine for simple tasks.

Not cashier economist sry

[Jar3av123]

17 hours ago, da na said:

lmao what payment processing website are you using??? 8 tabs and some background apps don't even hit 4GB

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Also why is TPM 2 so important?

i5 520m is not the strongest of CPUs even from the first-gen, but if it's in good shape (EG working battery) $70 is not a bad deal. Although I do assume that drive is a HDD not an SSD. 

If the battery isn't good and the drive is a HDD, $70 is too much. I'd pay at most $50 for it in that case.

I found another laptop for same price has 3rd gen i5 8ram and 500gb thats better right

[Dedayog]

2 hours ago, Jar3av123 said:

She needs for work plus she is a economist not cashier 

That's slightly and INCREDIBLY different professions

 

What does she do on the laptop?  Economists can run very large models in Excel for instance.

 

$70 seems way too light a budget for someone with a professional career.  Can you give us more relevant information?

 

2 hours ago, Jar3av123 said:

I found another laptop for same price has 3rd gen i5 8ram and 500gb thats better right

Yep, a little bit. For $70 you're not going to get anything worthwhile really.  Casts offs and people throwing away etc.

[TatamiMatt]

3 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

That's slightly and INCREDIBLY different professions

In saying that, i can see how they could be mixed up if english isnt a first language

[Dedayog]

Just now, TatamiMatt said:

In saying that, i can see how they could be mixed up if english isnt a first language

Really?   Maybe.  If you're just going by the word and not having an idea what she actually does at all?  Cuz they sounded similar in the native tongue?

 

[TatamiMatt]

2 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Really?   Maybe.  If you're just going by the word and not having an idea what she actually does at all?  Cuz they sounded similar in the native tongue?

 

Moreso just the, works with money, numbers and a calculator, and mixing the words up kinda idea

[da na]

3 hours ago, Jar3av123 said:

I found another laptop for same price has 3rd gen i5 8ram and 500gb thats better right

Yep, better.