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    • WrCombsW
      WrCombs
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      Taking all reccomendations. Thanks soo much everyone!

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      • travisdh1T
        travisdh1 @Francesco Provino
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        @Francesco-Provino said in New laptop:

        @dafyre said in New laptop:

        @Francesco-Provino said in New laptop:

        The ThinkPads generally have Ethernet, great reliability, great keyboard (+ clit mouse) and external battery (love that!).

        The Thinkpads are Lenovo now right? General consensus around here is to avoid Lenovo.

        I know about the malware stuff, but ThinkPads were unaffected and I'm sure Lenovo has the will to rebuild a sane reputation...

        They've had a pattern of acting the same way, and outright lie to their customers. You have to assume they're not completely contemptuous of their customer base, which they have proven to be.

        If you have a Lenovo on your network, I thank you for giving me another network to do whatever I want with.... yes, it IS that bad.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @dafyre
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          @dafyre said in New laptop:

          @Francesco-Provino said in New laptop:

          @dafyre said in New laptop:

          @Francesco-Provino said in New laptop:

          The ThinkPads generally have Ethernet, great reliability, great keyboard (+ clit mouse) and external battery (love that!).

          The Thinkpads are Lenovo now right? General consensus around here is to avoid Lenovo.

          I know about the malware stuff, but ThinkPads were unaffected and I'm sure Lenovo has the will to rebuild a sane reputation...

          They may have the will... but they have to win back the customers they lost because of it.

          But we've seen no indication of this and having a will does not fit their historical patterns.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @Francesco Provino
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            @Francesco-Provino said in New laptop:

            @dafyre said in New laptop:

            @Francesco-Provino said in New laptop:

            The ThinkPads generally have Ethernet, great reliability, great keyboard (+ clit mouse) and external battery (love that!).

            The Thinkpads are Lenovo now right? General consensus around here is to avoid Lenovo.

            I know about the malware stuff, but ThinkPads were unaffected and I'm sure Lenovo has the will to rebuild a sane reputation...

            We don't KNOW that they were unaffected. Only that they were not caught. It doesn't change the fact that you are letting the enemy in the door and saying "well they didn't get caught in this one case before so we'll do business with them anyway."

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @dafyre
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              @dafyre said in New laptop:

              @Francesco-Provino said in New laptop:

              The ThinkPads generally have Ethernet, great reliability, great keyboard (+ clit mouse) and external battery (love that!).

              The Thinkpads are Lenovo now right? General consensus around here is to avoid Lenovo.

              Yes they are, consensus everywhere is to avoid them.

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              • MirtaM
                Mirta @Francesco Provino
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                Agree with XPS, the best screen that I've ever seen!

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                • MirtaM
                  Mirta @WrCombs
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                  @WrCombs Oh, that will be hard. Dell can't match your price. I agree with the thought to look for refurbished machine. You search into Asus laptops, they are not expensive. This one, for example, fits your price: ASUS E200HA-UB02-GD The hardware is not outstanding but here you can work. Of course, if you don't work with DATAs, graphic or etc.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Mirta
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                    @Mirta said in New laptop:

                    @WrCombs Oh, that will be hard. Dell can't match your price. I agree with the thought to look for refurbished machine. You search into Asus laptops, they are not expensive. This one, for example, fits your price: ASUS E200HA-UB02-GD The hardware is not outstanding but here you can work. Of course, if you don't work with DATAs, graphic or etc.

                    I use Asus currently.

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender
                      last edited by

                      He's had a replacement machine for a while now.

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                      • MirtaM
                        Mirta @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller Good und trustful brand, even can't be compared with Lenovo 🙂

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Mirta
                          last edited by

                          @Mirta said in New laptop:

                          @scottalanmiller Good und trustful brand, even can't be compared with Lenovo 🙂

                          LOL, not at all.

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                          • Son of Jor-ElS
                            Son of Jor-El
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                            Raspberry Pi is in your price range. LOL

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Son of Jor-El
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                              @Son-of-Jor-El said in New laptop:

                              Raspberry Pi is in your price range. LOL

                              That new Asus board is, too.

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                              • dafyreD
                                dafyre
                                last edited by

                                Curious... https://www.pi-top.com/buy

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                                • WrCombsW
                                  WrCombs
                                  last edited by

                                  Thank you all for your input, I have a replacement laptop right now.. it will last me a while, ill keep this thread in case i need it again in the future.

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                                  • gjacobseG
                                    gjacobse @dafyre
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                                    @dafyre said in New laptop:

                                    Curious... https://www.pi-top.com/buy

                                    I had seen the rPi top, but not the Ceed Curious.

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                                    • GreyG
                                      Grey @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by Grey

                                      @scottalanmiller said in New laptop:

                                      I'm an Asus RoG fan. What are your use cases?

                                      I got my mother one of these. It's very nice. I wish it had a touch screen. Also, she has trouble seeing the little icons on the keyboard and had to print out an enlarged picture of them. Other than that, her minecraft experience has been significantly improved.

                                      Personally, I use a Surface Pro 4 and my wife has a 3. These devices are not our primary units, though, and I wouldn't recommend using a Surface for gaming.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @Grey
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                                        @Grey said in New laptop:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in New laptop:

                                        I'm an Asus RoG fan. What are your use cases?

                                        I got my mother one of these. It's very nice. I wish it had a touch screen. Also, she has trouble seeing the little icons on the keyboard and had to print out an enlarged picture of them. Other than that, her minecraft experience has been significantly improved.

                                        Personally, I use a Surface Pro 4 and my wife has a 3. These devices are not our primary units, though, and I wouldn't recommend using a Surface for gaming.

                                        I use one RoG for gaming (Win 10) and liked it so much that I got one for Linux for my work machine. So it is what runs Ubuntu and what I am on now.

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                                          Francesco Provino @WrCombs
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                                          @WrCombs I just come back from a Dell conference: Latitude 7480 seems to be the new gold standard for business laptops, apart from Lenovo.

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                                          • GreyG
                                            Grey @Francesco Provino
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                                            @Francesco-Provino said in New laptop:

                                            @WrCombs I just come back from a Dell conference: Latitude 7480 seems to be the new gold standard for business laptops, apart from Lenovo.

                                            You went to a Dell conference and they said the new standard is a Dell laptop. Gee, I wonder why?

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