which laptop should i buy

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blackhawk

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A used Dell from a known good refurbisher.
Some Dell laptop's live their whole lives in companies as desk computers. They're replaced with lots of life left in them (except the hdd).
Picked up a Dell E6400 3 years ago in excellent condition with 4gb of ram for $150. Slammed in a 1 tb hhd. Total cost under $300.
Bonus, got the W7x64 OS... the last good OS MS released.

Still run great. Eventually had to replaced the battery and cmos battery. Today I'm installing a 1tb data drive in the bay slot.
 

TravisBean

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Pay attention to the Asus gaming series, very powerful laptops that work for a long time
Yep, I just got this Asus when it was on sale for $1149.
Not really a gaming laptop but it has an 11th gen I7, decent GPU, and a 4K OLED touch screen. For the price, I couldn't find anything else that even comes close.

Asus Q538EI.
 
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blackhawk

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2 x Thunderbolt 4 USB-C® (up to 40 Gbps)
1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A (up to 5 Gbps)
1 x Standard HDMI
1 x SD card reader
1 x Audio combo jack
I like the fast tranfers😍 but an extra internal bay is nice to have.

Just put a 1tb 7200rpm hdd for the OS and a 2tb data drive in my Dell e6400 dinosaur. Going to upgrade to 8gb of ram next and call it good.
Getting data in and out is a bit slow otherwise it runs nicely on W7x64.
Paid $135 for it less the hdds and had to eventually replace the main and cmos bat.
 
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