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UnluckyGenius
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Hello everyone! I'm looking for a laptop for a friend of mine, his house was recently burglarized and they stole all of his stuff. He needs a school laptop ASAP and only has a budget of around $300 USD. He likes the 2 in 1 and transformer laptops but the ones he was looking at only had 32gb or 64gb SSD's and I don't think that will be enough memory for all of his music and school stuff.

 

His Main Uses

  • Taking notes and writing papers
  • Watching Netflix and streaming videos
  • Web browsing
  • Downloading music

He says he wants to do some light gaming (TF2) but I told him that is going to drive up his price. Please help us pick something out, I was looking around and found this:  http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-flex-3-2-in-1-11-6-touch-screen-laptop-intel-celeron-4gb-memory-500gb-hard-drive-black/7577037.p?id=1219680870003&skuId=7577037

 

Thanks for any help,

UnluckyGenius aka MeatMaker

 

 

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Sorry 'bout your friend m8. That laptop looks pretty good. I would get an external HDD or SSD as well.

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Why do people do -snip-?

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein

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Why do people do -snip-?

so it doesnt take up a lot of space and fill half of someone's screen 

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Why do people do -snip-?

To avoid repeating the same lines over and over just to reply to them.

Eien nante naito iikitte shimattar  /  Amarinimo sabishikute setsunai deshou
Dare mo ga hontou wa shinjitai kedo  /  Uragirarere ba fukaku kizu tsuite shimau mono

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That Laptop is pretty crappy for gaming. I have the yoga 2 pro with a core i7. I still can't play waw on low setting.

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein

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My usual recommendation for budget computing is look at government auctions. Government replaces their computers every couple of years, and you can pick up some superseded hardware ridiculously cheap.

 

I wouldn't recommend buying this, but in NC there's an Auction at 100 bucks for 8 panasonic toughbooks. Not really aimed at you, but if I was a contractor, I'd buy them for on site work.

 

You might not find something quick, but you can find almost anything on those sites.

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Chrome book.  

I was thinking about a chrome book but as they don't have microsoft office (unless I'm wrong) it would be an issue as most professors in his university require papers to be a word document. So just to make it easier on him I don't think a chrome book would be best. Although I have a chrome book and I love it.

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That Laptop is pretty crappy for gaming. I have the yoga 2 pro with a core i7. I still can't play waw on low setting.

He says he wants to do light gaming but I told him that would drive the cost up, he will mainly be using it for writing papers, taking notes and browsing the web.

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Sorry 'bout your friend m8. That laptop looks pretty good. I would get an external HDD or SSD as well.

Yeah someone broke into their house and stole almost everything. 4 or 5 TV's an Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS4 and his housemates gaming PC which was apparently pretty nice along with 3 other laptops. As for an external hard drive, I told him he will most likely need one but with the 500gb HDD he might not need it for a while.

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Yeah someone broke into their house and stole almost everything. 4 or 5 TV's an Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS4 and his housemates gaming PC which was apparently pretty nice along with 3 other laptops. As for an external hard drive, I told him he will most likely need one but with the 500gb HDD he might not need it for a while.

WoW, thats really sad to hear...  but for laptop recodimetion, maybe this will work... http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Thinkpad-T420-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B00W4AMWCI/ref=sr_1_17?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1439291513&sr=1-17&refinements=p_n_condition-type%3A2224371011%2Cp_89%3ALenovo%2Cp_72%3A1248880011%2Cp_n_availability%3A1248800011

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My usual recommendation for budget computing is look at government auctions. Government replaces their computers every couple of years, and you can pick up some superseded hardware ridiculously cheap.

 

I wouldn't recommend buying this, but in NC there's an Auction at 100 bucks for 8 panasonic toughbooks. Not really aimed at you, but if I was a contractor, I'd buy them for on site work.

 

You might not find something quick, but you can find almost anything on those sites.

 

 

That Laptop is pretty crappy for gaming. I have the yoga 2 pro with a core i7. I still can't play waw on low setting.

 

What do you guys think about this laptop? 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S7HB12Y/ref=asc_df_B00S7HB12Y3836578/?tag=hawk-future-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B00S7HB12Y&linkCode=df0&ascsubtag=hawk-1244351963-20

 

The reviews on Amazon aren't the best but it doesn't seem like a bad laptop. Keep in mind I know little to nothing about laptops so I may be completely wrong.

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What do you guys think about this laptop? 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S7HB12Y/ref=asc_df_B00S7HB12Y3836578/?tag=hawk-future-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B00S7HB12Y&linkCode=df0&ascsubtag=hawk-1244351963-20

 

The reviews on Amazon aren't the best but it doesn't seem like a bad laptop. Keep in mind I know little to nothing about laptops so I may be completely wrong.

grab the used one, make sure it come with the windows key, and do a complete format, and clean install of windows. After superfish, I trust lenovo as far as I can kick them.

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What do you guys think about this laptop? 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S7HB12Y/ref=asc_df_B00S7HB12Y3836578/?tag=hawk-future-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B00S7HB12Y&linkCode=df0&ascsubtag=hawk-1244351963-20

 

The reviews on Amazon aren't the best but it doesn't seem like a bad laptop. Keep in mind I know little to nothing about laptops so I may be completely wrong.

I for some reason can seem to open the link, but the guy above me says it is a lenovo and in my opinion if it aint t/w/x series, stay away from it.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough it will be believed.

-Adolf Hitler 

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