Everything is a cost/performance trade off but no matter what else you do just make sure it has a solid state drive (SSD). I'm pretty sure those are standard now in laptops but worth double checking. The low-power traditional hard drives they put in laptops trade performance for battery and are so slow you'll think you've gone back to the 90s...
Just a note on docking stations; USB-C based docking stations are fast becoming the standard and have come a long way. They are now perfectly fine for the average knowledge worker who wants a single convenient cable to plug in to get dual display, keyboard, mouse, etc. The only downside is your GPU won't work on the USB displays so there is a negative impact on graphics performance.
On the upside you don't have to buy a different docking station for every device. Here is a neat trick; plug your Samsung mobile device into a USB-C docking station and presto! You have a full workstation on your phone! Keyboard, mouse, dual display, everything (though some apps aren't optimized for it). Google "Samsung DeX" for more details, maybe you don't even need a laptop?
John
On Sun., Sep. 27, 2020, 9:09 a.m. Adam Thompson, athompso@athompso.net wrote:
On 2020-09-27 06:52, Trevor Cordes wrote:
P.S. Acer is only fine if you don't want to run native linux. And Asus ones don't tend to last long.
Heh, that's true. The ASUS is the laptop you wish hadn't died, and the HP is the laptop that just won't quite die no matter how much you wish it would.
P.P.S. What's an AAA game? Where you go around towing cars?
ROTFL. That's the funniest take I've seen on that!
"AAA (pronounced and sometimes written Triple-A) is an informal classification used for video games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, typically having higher development and marketing budgets." (From wikipedia)
So basically just this year's blockbuster game, whatever that is. Which, running on a laptop is going to be... painful, unless Brad gets one of those Gaming-specific monstrosities I see at Memory Express sometimes. (They're nice, but NOT meant for your lap.)
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