Login

TJBender · 11-29-2017, 11:21 PM

(11-29-2017, 10:45 PM)SeldomRite Wrote: I seriously suggest you buy something used off corporate lease from eBay for a couple of hundred dollars. Hp elite book and Lenovo thinkpad are widely available and generally decent notebooks. Unfortunately tablets are a dying market where you either get garbage for a low price or have to pay a high price for reasonable quality.

I like and respect this answer. The ThinkPad T430 and Latitude E6420 are about the best values out there right now if you're willing to take one with a scuff or two on it. Hell, my E6410 looks like it's been through WWII, but it's still perfect for those short little trips when I don't plan on gaming from the road. There are some pretty good ThinkPad 2-in-1 tablets, too. The X220t comes to mind immediately. I've still got an X61t that I will never give up because it's just so doggone useful, Core 2 Duo and all. Runs Lubuntu like a champ.

The new H-series mobile chips from Intel are looking beastly, though. AMD Vega graphics on-die will give them something like R9 380X performance from integrated graphics. Of course, it will probably also make them an FX 9590-level forest fire...

(11-29-2017, 11:13 PM)VisitingCobra Wrote:
(11-28-2017, 05:03 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Yep, no matter how good of a deal that laptop with the AMD processor seems like right now, when it takes 10 seconds for your browser to open in 6 months, you will hate yourself for it, lol.

This isn't typically a symptom of a slow processor. It's more a symptom of a slow browser, slow operating system, slow Internet connection, or lack of memory. Windows 10 + Edge or Explorer in my experience is very slow on lower end hardware regardless of what people try to tell me.

Yes, this does read like a lack of RAM or a badly bloated Windows install more than a CPU problem, but the A-series APUs are, in all fairness and kindness towards them, really really bad. Windows 10 is a bear on RAM. You can run it on 2GB or less, and I have on many occasions when testing out older hardware, but for a really good experience you need at least 4GB of RAM paired with a solid processor and a 6Gbps SATA III hard drive or SSD.