next laptop

[Donald]

Hi - below is a possible next computer for me. I want a laptop with SSD, Thunderbolt, 7th gen I7, 8GB RAM, the screen size is the minimum. A 15" would be better. Do not need a gamer PC, or a super size HD. I like HP for the most part. I have a touch screen and never use it. So a touch screen is not needed.

Comments?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M8MCZ2K/ref...=I1JNFUMU3T9CUN

 

[GenesisGuy70]

For that price I'd get a MacBook.

I know, I know. Some people are staunchly against Apple products.

I was a PC guy for many years. I can tear down and rebuild desktops, install OS's, you name it.

Decided to give a Mac a try, I'll never go back to PC.

 

[dcf]

Yup. Get an Apple . Windows sucks !!

 

[Donald]

I will stick with PC. Typically you get significantly better performance per dollar with a PC than with a MAC.

 

[panther427]

I would say no. That is expensive because its a tinny ultra light. The one you linked is only 13 inch screen. A regular laptop with similar specs should be 700 or so.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01DT49XN...&ref=plSrch

I know u do not need a gaming laptop. But this is a better deal I think

 

[Donald]

Originally Posted By: panther427
I would say no. That is expensive because its a tinny ultra light. The one you linked is only 13 inch screen. A regular laptop with similar specs should be 700 or so.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01DT49XN...&ref=plSrch

I know u do not need a gaming laptop. But this is a better deal I think


USB 3.1 / Thunderbolt is a requirement. This laptop only has USB 3.0.

 

[Andrew1972]

Originally Posted By: Throt
For that price I'd get a MacBook.

I know, I know. Some people are staunchly against Apple products.

I was a PC guy for many years. I can tear down and rebuild desktops, install OS's, you name it.

Decided to give a Mac a try, I'll never go back to PC.


I find my coworkers with recent(not newest) mac book pros complaint of slowness and rebooting a lot. I am surprised as I thought apples were all that and more. They blame running Chrome and Firefox kills them however these don't bother windows or linux.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Originally Posted By: Throt
For that price I'd get a MacBook.

I know, I know. Some people are staunchly against Apple products.

I was a PC guy for many years. I can tear down and rebuild desktops, install OS's, you name it.

Decided to give a Mac a try, I'll never go back to PC.


I second the MacBook too.

 

[spk2000]

I just bought a lenova Flex 4 from Costco with better specs for $400 for floor model. more for a for new in box. check it out.

http://www.costco.com/Lenovo-Flex-4-Seri....100315654.html

 

[spk2000]

I forgot to add that Costco has an unbeatable return policy and doubles the standard warranty at no extra cost.

 

[wkcars]

This dell seems to have all the specs you wanted, if you have a discover credit card you can get some extra cash back going through discover deals website, also right now they have an extra 10% off already discounted prices sitewide on all PCs with coupon code TenOff or if you're not in a rush wait for a better sale, dell sometimes has pretty good sales.

http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-15-9550-laptop/fncwx1610h

 

[Johnny2Bad]

Originally Posted By: Donald
I will stick with PC. Typically you get significantly better performance per dollar with a PC than with a MAC.


Actually the opposite is true. A similarly configured DELL (for example) is slower than the equivalent MacBook Pro when tested with applications. Apple is very good at integrating components so they work together.

Plus, if you prefer Windows, you can wipe the drive of any Mac and run it as a Windows PC, or dual boot both OS's if you prefer. Run the same Windows applications as benchmarks, yep ... the Mac is faster than the DELL (or whomever you prefer ... for a non-Apple laptop I dislike HP and prefer Toshiba or Lenovo).

If you are not looking for a premium laptop that is when the DELL, Toshiba, or Lenovo come into their own. If you are in the premium space, Apple has the best hardware, and that's in terms of real-world performance, not just spec.

I will never buy another HP product; support is a nightmare and HP has a bad habit of abandoning it's users. A textbook example of a superior company that chose a relentless path to mediocracy and irrelevance. The Compaq purchase is a perfect example: take a premium brand and turn it into junk. A shame, really.

 

[Hokiefyd]

Originally Posted By: Donald
I will stick with PC. Typically you get significantly better performance per dollar with a PC than with a MAC.


Yes; buy what you like. I've been using Windows since version 3.0 and bought into the Mac culture a few years ago. We had that 24" iMac for over a year; I initially liked it, but that softened with time. My wife never did not like it. I liked the quality of the hardware and the keyboard, but I didn't care for the weird monocoque structure, where you have to physically take the screen off to do anything but replace RAM. One of the internal speakers was dodgy, so I was facing that repair, and the OS had gotten a little sludged up (despite claims to the contrary, Mac OS gets slow over time just like Windows does). I formatted it and reinstalled the OS (our speed was back!), we sold it on Craigslist, and we bought a Dell desktop at Best Buy for $299 that we've been using for many years. It has a modest little Pentium G2030 processor, 4 GB of RAM, a 120 GB Samsung SSD, and it runs Windows 10 like a champ...we both enjoy that modest Dell desktop more than we did that expensive iMac.

Live and learn, and to each their own!

 

[Nick1994]

+1 on the MacBook.

I have a 7-1/2 year old MacBook Pro. Runs like a dream, never a problem. Itll run circles around a lot of machines out there.