College student tip: Refurb Thinkpads and Lattitudes. Businesses cycle them through every 3 years and dump them for whatever money they can get to resellers where they then end up on eBay. Cheap reliable and long support lifetimes.
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I have never bought a new laptop in my entire life.
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Business returbs are finally including Ultrabooks with SSDs. That’s all you need. Remember, even something three years old is more powerful than 95% of PCs ever produced in human history.
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
Putting an SSD in my cheap $300 i3 laptop makes it faster than a new i7 with a spinning HD 99% of the time. Yet the guy who runs our computers at work doesn't seem to know what an SSD is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Replying to @mramblr @SwiftOnSecurity
I said time and again that "SSDs aren't needed unless you're a gamer" was always utter bullshit. An SSD is, in most cases, the best money you can spend upgrading a machine that doesn't have one. And if your build can't afford one, spend less elsewhere or you're wasting money.
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The only thing an SSD helps with for a gamer is loading times, which is really the least of their concerns. I only use an SSD for my OS and the rest are HDDs for my games and who cares when I've got 32GB RAM and a massive graphics card
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Replying to @HedgeDogGaming @fwaggle and
Gamers don't only game, there are many other applications on your computer that benefit greatly from an ssd
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Of course, but that's exactly why an SSD is good for everyone. Saying they're specifically good for gamers isn't even true.
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Replying to @HedgeDogGaming @OH_NOES and
What advantage does an ssd bring me? Shorter boot times and application startup. How often do i start applications? Each time i reboot my laptop. How often do i reboot? Once a week. So an ssd saves me 5min per week. q.e.d. Change my mind.
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An SSD massively improves all loading times. This means all programs load and write faster, so save times are improved for anything that autosaves (like browser cache, office docs, photoshop etc) Overall performance for your computer greatly increases. Just try it you'll love it!
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Replying to @HedgeDogGaming @oszilloskop and
It's not even like SSDs are expensive these days. sure, you won't have a terabyte of space, but who needs that? (nope, not Gamers. not unless you flit from game to game like a hummingbird)
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Replying to @Fuzzysteve @HedgeDogGaming and
I bought a 960GB SSD for $109 shipped about six months ago. They’re just flat out cheap now.
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