Laptop sister rant

[Mao_Zedong]

My sister has been shopping for a laptop for over six months now. At one point she asked me for help, so i spent hours finding great options for her. Last night i found out she had seen a laptop and just gotten it without even telling me. The laptop she got was around the same price as the one i recommended, but it had no gpu, the cpu is half as fast, and it has not backlit keyboard or touchscreen. She will be using it for pretty intensive work, so she really needed those specs. Its not like its way better looking or more portable, its half a pound lighter and he no metal, so it looks way worse. The only reason she gave was that asus has a terrible warranty (which i am pretty sure is false).

[Askew]

life lesson, next time tell her to go solo on the laptop creep

[Wano97]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/34813-experiences-with-non-techies/

[RelentlessAF]

I'm sure the warranty was at least 2 years+ which isn't terrible by any means. Anyway that's what non-techies do, make uninformed decisions about buying technology. Not much to do about it.

[KamiKatze]

What models are we talking about exactly? Btw. there is a thread for that: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/34813-experiences-with-non-techies/

[Mao_Zedong]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/34813-experiences-with-non-techies/

i know, i'll probably post it there later

[Mao_Zedong]

What models are we talking about exactly? Btw. there is a thread for that: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/34813-experiences-with-non-techies/

the laptop i said was the asus n550jk, she got the lenovo z50. she said it was the same price when she included a warranty, so idk what exact model it was, but it is worse speced.

[flibberdipper]

My sister doesn't listen to me very well. She uses Chrome on a Dell slower than mine (still 1GB of RAM) and she complains that it's really slow. I pull up task manager and see her RAM has less than 10MB left, and her swap has been obliterated. I open the same stuff on my computer in Firefox and I have 30% of my RAM left and about half-70% of my swap left. And I can do other things too (but that might be due to my computer having a faster CPU).

[KamiKatze]

i5-U edition and GTX 820M vs fully fledged mobile i5 + 850M .... ouch that Hertz my brain!

 

Edit: nvm there are way too many variants of that notebook. But if your laptops lie in a equal price range and have said differences... then good lord.

[Sauron]

Well, that's what she gets for not listening. She'll realize by herself she should have listened to you, even though she'll never admit it.

[Mao_Zedong]

i5-U edition and GTX 820M vs fully fledged mobile i5 + 850M .... ouch that Hertz my brain!

 

Edit: nvm there are way too many variants of that notebook. But if your laptops lie in a equal price range and have said differences... then good lord.

its core I7s, but yup, the one is slightly faster per core, and has double the cores.