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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
This Dell laptop Precision 7510 was $4,000 in 2017, upgraded myself to 64 Gigs RAM and 1 T solid state drive. To replace it today is like $5,000 but there are used corporate laptops which are about 25% of a new list price. I had found a site for with cheap like new and a friend bought one very cheaply. . OBB you can probably get something very reasonable with great specs looking at the used market.
I have to replace this laptop due to Win 10 being pastureized. . .
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You couldn't pay me to own a Dell. That's what Southern CT State University used when I was a bench tech there. They were reasonably good machines but their IT department and customer service were HORRIBLE - and we had a million dollar contract with them. Most of the time the problems were just idiot professors who didn't password protect their department machines and the students would download porn and warez on them, which of course would cause endless popups, ransomware, and annoying viruses. But the hardware failures were pretty serious, and Dell IT wouldn't even answer the phone, and hardware was all contract work.
But yeah I'll be getting a new laptop this year at some point. Will get either an HP or a Lenovo. HP has a less-than-stellar reputation among serious tech geeks but to me an HP is like the old Volkswagen Beetle - it's not sleek, it's not super powerful, it doesn't come with a lot of doodads and sparkle. But it's really hard to kill it - as long as you don't do really stupid or abusive things to it, it'll outlast the operating system, software, and all your peripherals.