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Your mom.
Wow $350 with genuine windows 10 and office. You are rich!!
Oh she learned how to escape from the cage...
Stick around, Kid. @Nekki will be around to introduce you to the crew shortly.
I heard ‘caged moms’, I’ve got my camcorder and a toaster filled with mayonnaise ready to go.
This thing looks bulky. You sure it is light ? I don't want to break my back.
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X220 is a 12.5" 1366x768 screen; make sure you're ok with the limited screen real estate. (IPS panel is lovely, though.) It is very light, and you have a selection of batteries (4-cell, 6-cell, 9-cell, slice) to trade off weight for battery life.
It really is a tank, though; mine has been in continual use for 6 years, been dropped, taken traveling, etc. Build quality problems? Oh, the lettering on the keycaps has worn from use, and the keyboard bezel has a hairline crack by the touchpad buttons; that's about it. The CPU fan recently failed, replaced it for $5.
I hate thinkpads.. their keyboard (and trackpad too!) will get oily/shiny look eventually
Are there any choices for anything slightly better, like 1440x900 at least?
Yeah. It depends on what model you end up with. There is an upgrade plug-in screen designed specifically to fit the same. I had an X200 at 1440x900 at one point.
My 6 year old Dell is worse than my 6 year old Thinkpad. Hell, it's even shiny above F10/F11. Why, I have no idea. Nothing ever rests there! The keyboard hasn't worn off since it's Keyboard #3. Note the black clitmouse.
I prefer the Latitude, as it's slightly better-built, and although is currently on an older 1TB 5400 spinner, the ThinkPad just has odd issues with Linux occasionally. I've worked around it, but the keyboard back/forward continue to fuck with me. Also, this Latitude 6520 has 1920x1600 but is still a smaller-profile screen than the 17"+ behemoths they were popularizing at the time.
Don't be envious of my tablecloth. I GOTS THE GOLD BITCHES!
That's quite appealing. Is that some sort of weird unicorn one that's 300% higher price on ebay, or are they all that res?
It was a custom order from Dell Business, and wasn't cheap at the time.
There are a few different resolutions available, but even the Intel GM graphics can push it just fine. 1920x1080 is a much more common resolution, and should be cheapish. The e6520 and 6520 are the same machine, but the e series came without Windows (but with Windows stickers and COAs)
I believe it may only handle 16GB in BIOS, but I'm still rocking 8GB because I am a cheapass and RAMs are expensive. Standard SATA, eSATA, 1394 (lol) HDMI, VGA, USB 2.0, Gig-E, SmartCard, PCI Express x16, and other ports. For a 2011 model, it's still decent, but starting to show it's age.
E: Yep. 16GB max RAMS. Got an aftermarket USB 3 card in the PCIe 54mm port, and it's just spiffy. Not quite max rate, but works just fine.
with that budget, you should buy a brand new. it will last long enough to hold that 2 ssh window, excel and dozens tab.
consider Asus. my almost 7 year asus still do great (U series), change the disk to ssd, add more ram, good to go. just the cpu cant change.
or, just dont listen to your friend, buy mac. it worth. check tokopedia, you will find many new/userd mac from 2016-2017 series.
Buy used Mac Air 13" (2014 late atleast) and everything done.
I'm using XiaoMi 13.3 in my office, the keyboard is terrible but others are good.
Wait, a Dell laptop with a clitmouse?! I didn't know any brand outside Thinkpad had that. Is that some sort of custom keyboard or what?
Pretty much every Latitude I've seen has them.
Good to know. I am all about keyboard. I am fine totally fine with 1366 x 768 resolution. Or 10" screen. But I can't stand bad keyboard. I will scratch Xiaomi on my list.
I was bought Logi wireless keyboard/mouse(MK365) for more comfortable.
1920*1080 on 13.3 is terrible too XD
Hahah.. thanks for the chuckle
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Still no good value + MacBooks are the only piece of hardware I know that's worth to sell after some years because people still go crazy about it.
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Dell Latitude and Precisions lines have it as a option, which most people check, and HP EliteBooks have it apparently.
The exception is the Precision twin to the XPS 15. It doesn't have a trackpoint.
It's less of a chuckle when you're in a corporate environment, and you're in a meeting with the female head of IT, and "clitmouse" escapes on auto-pilot.
Thankfully being head of IT this was not foreign to her, but there was a slight pucker immediately afterwards for about 5 seconds.
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Apple isn't really that expensive for what you get. Spec for spec and to get the same quality, Windows machines end up costing, at least, just as much, and macOS is a Unix OS which companies will actually write commercial software for.
I'd much rather run Linux or a BSD, and I do, but sometimes I need to run commercial software. macOS also gets really good battery life, which is something Linux and the BSDs struggle with.
Yep. Got one on the ancient C2D Elitebook, but Not On the P4M Latitude that predates our country. I don't recall any possible "No" checkbox for the Dell; perhaps that's new.
Yeah..Apple's laptops are pretty good (touch bar aside). I have a 12" MacBook that I really like. No moving parts makes it silent, which I prefer. It's not super fast but it's fast enough for what I do.
Now iMacs on the other hand seem really expensive to me. As much as I'd like to get one I have difficulty justifying the price tag.