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I found a deal for a Dell Inspiron 13 for $600 USD.

 

It has a core i7 8550u, 8GB of RAM, a 13.3" inch 1080p IPS screen, and a 256GB SSD. 

 

I'm using my laptop for productivity so the CPU, storage, RAM, keyboard, and battery is important to me.

 

Is this a good deal or not? Thanks in advance.

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Have you ever tried a 13inch screen?

 

I didnt before my Mac, always had a 15+, and I couldn't stand it

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Model number? Inspiron lineup usually don't have good battery life

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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Honestly, I'd probably get something like a mint/NOS Lenovo T450, T460, or X250 or X260.

3 hours ago, K i a r a said:

Have you ever tried a 13inch screen?

 

I didnt before my Mac, always had a 15+, and I couldn't stand it

Really? I found a 15.6" to be a complete pain in the ass to carry around compared to a smaller notebook.

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Storage: WD 750 SE 500GB, WD 730 SE 1TB GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 PSU: Corsair SF750 Case: Streacom DA2

Monitor: LG 27GL83B Mouse: Razer Basilisk V2 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Speakers: Mackie CR5BT

 

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9 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

Model number? Inspiron lineup usually don't have good battery life

It has 6 hours of battery life

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2 hours ago, r2724r16 said:

It has 6 hours of battery life

Source? 6 hrs is OKish to me

 

What model?

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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