I brought this up due to the first comment in this thread in the Q&A on the Best Buy site. As always, YMMV.
Cheap 14" Laptop $220- @bestbuy
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I brought this up due to the first comment in this thread in the Q&A on the Best Buy site. As always, YMMV.
I have no idea what that person was going on about. Their experience was certainly not typical and almost seems self-inflicted.
JHZR2
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What does it mean to begin with, and why/why wouldn’t you want to turn it off?
Hermann
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When the Acer was unboxed it took less than 5 min to look up how to do it and NIKE it.
Are these laptops powerful enough to run Farming Simulator 25?
I'm writing this on an even lower spec 14" Asus with Win 11and only 4MB of ram. It works perfectly fine once Win 11 is beaten into submission by removing as much of the crap as possible. I bought this laptop on ebay, brand new in a sealed box with the full warranty in Sept 23 for £88.
More processor or Ram than you really need can consume battery power. This laptop runs 10 hours on a charge because of the low spec..
More processor or Ram than you really need can consume battery power. This laptop runs 10 hours on a charge because of the low spec..
I haven't looked up the required specs of themat software but you might want 16GB of ram.
I bought my wife a dell inspiron 2 in 1 in March of 2016. i3 processor, 8GB ram, 128 GB ssd. Cost was $500 for an open box model from best buy. It still runs pretty well but the ram gets close to 100% and the hard drive is probably 80.% utilized. Also the screen flickers as something is up with the hinges and you have to open it at a low angle for it not to.
9 years is a great run though. I'm going to go for 16GB and at least 256 ssd this time. Hopefully the next one lasts years as well for her.
Not even a year ago I was able to buy a refurb Dell business laptop with 9th gen Xeon processor, 32gb RAM, 512gb SSD, discrete Nvidia GPU, all the bells & whistles / expandability options that come with a real business laptop for less than $300. It's a Precision 7730 IIRC.
I've since upgraded it to 96gb RAM, more storage than I'll ever need (it has three m2 2280 slots) and will last me many more years than the throwaway sub $300 laptops they sell new. The upgrades (RAM/SSD) are chump change if the laptop will accept it.
I use it for all my vehicle programming that needs to interface with SPS and other programming applications.
If you do buy a refurb laptop, make sure it's a modern CPU (> 8th gen IIRC) that will fully support Windows 11.
I've since upgraded it to 96gb RAM, more storage than I'll ever need (it has three m2 2280 slots) and will last me many more years than the throwaway sub $300 laptops they sell new. The upgrades (RAM/SSD) are chump change if the laptop will accept it.
I use it for all my vehicle programming that needs to interface with SPS and other programming applications.
If you do buy a refurb laptop, make sure it's a modern CPU (> 8th gen IIRC) that will fully support Windows 11.
you want a gaming laptop or at least one with a radeon 780m
this one would $450 you would need to add more ram its expandable.(2 slots)
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-vic...512gb-ssd-mica-silver/6578933.p?skuId=6578933
they have open box in fair good and excellent for cheaper as well.
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/hp-...ca-silver/6578933/openbox?condition=excellent
data sheet
https://files.bbystatic.com/dBRmBc3HRF+A+hziAt/6Lw==/Datasheet
The 6550m graphics are aprox 50% faster than a 1050ti
farming simulator 25 has pretty stiff "recommended" graphics requirements.
but this laptop passes the min graphics requirements by a good margin.
the processor is faster than the recommended i7-10700
If you do the memory upgrade to at least 2 8gb chips (16GB total) it should be above the recommended specs even with the shared graphics memory. the needed 8GB chip (1) is aprox $20 (computer comes with 1 8GB chip)
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Deal back up, just grabbed one.
I am ignorant regarding computers but I purchased this one at BestBuy for 50%OFF:
Probably better off finding an off lease business laptop.
It will be more durable and more serviceable for money in the same price range.
How does one find an "off lease business laptop"?
Hermann
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Purchased an equivalent Acer laptop in 15.6 in for $199 at Christmas. It's been great. Still have 87 gb of storage left. Enjoy your bargain OP
Hermann
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Who's servicing and upgrading $200 laptop? $200 is chump change these days. And for that price I will buy new. My choice has not been a dog.
Hermann
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Took me 15 minutes. 5 after I found the instructions
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