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Between a laptop I got fall 2019 or a desktop I got some time around 2023. Both were decently priced, though, so it wasn’t terrible.
The laptop was from a pawnshop. Was a detachable monitor touch screen type that had battery issues and is really underpowered. No matter what, the battery drains like the thing is on. Couldn’t run win10 very well and did a little better using ubuntu. Now it kinda sits doing nothing since I have long since updated to a better laptop a couple years ago.
The desktop was a brand new but was a budget device that is not the greatest. Had 4gb of ram and weak other components other than the 1tb hard drive. Did its job well enough that I cannot complain. Mostly got it for the disk drive and plenty of USB plugs. Worked a little better when I upgraded to 16gb ram, but not anywhere near the level of my current desktop.
Edit:
I have given it some thought, and it was around 2021 when I got the desktop. Time is all fuzzy sometimes for me.
My advice is to always avoid laptops unless you absolutely could not do without the portability.
I have also had great success with surplussed business-class machines. Like, the models which are impossible to buy from any brick-and-mortar location, and can even be difficult to buy online because the company typically sells those models through MSPs (Managed Service Providers, outsourced IT provisioning companies for other companies). These models are usually super-robust because they are meant to NOT be disposable, and usually have much higher config ceilings on RAM and storage, and can easily remain relevant for a good 7-15 years while consumer models scream to be replaced at the 5-year mark.
Wait, you found a new desktop in 2023 with only 4 gigs of ram? I didn’t even think they made them with that little. Super budget ewaste tier laptops maybe, but desktops?
It was a $400USD lenovo budget desktop, so you can probably do the math on why there was so little ram. I’m pretty sure they designed it specifically for running things like an office suite and other low resource intesive software.
No slight against lenovo, but I’m positive it was meant to be for light work and I just used it for more than I should have.
Edit:
Thought about it, and around 2021 and not 23 when I got it. So still doesn’t make a super huge amiunt of sense, but whatever.
Between a laptop I got fall 2019 or a desktop I got some time around 2023. Both were decently priced, though, so it wasn’t terrible.
The laptop was from a pawnshop. Was a detachable monitor touch screen type that had battery issues and is really underpowered. No matter what, the battery drains like the thing is on. Couldn’t run win10 very well and did a little better using ubuntu. Now it kinda sits doing nothing since I have long since updated to a better laptop a couple years ago.
The desktop was a brand new but was a budget device that is not the greatest. Had 4gb of ram and weak other components other than the 1tb hard drive. Did its job well enough that I cannot complain. Mostly got it for the disk drive and plenty of USB plugs. Worked a little better when I upgraded to 16gb ram, but not anywhere near the level of my current desktop.
Edit:
I have given it some thought, and it was around 2021 when I got the desktop. Time is all fuzzy sometimes for me.
My advice is to always avoid laptops unless you absolutely could not do without the portability.
I have also had great success with surplussed business-class machines. Like, the models which are impossible to buy from any brick-and-mortar location, and can even be difficult to buy online because the company typically sells those models through MSPs (Managed Service Providers, outsourced IT provisioning companies for other companies). These models are usually super-robust because they are meant to NOT be disposable, and usually have much higher config ceilings on RAM and storage, and can easily remain relevant for a good 7-15 years while consumer models scream to be replaced at the 5-year mark.
Wait, you found a new desktop in 2023 with only 4 gigs of ram? I didn’t even think they made them with that little. Super budget ewaste tier laptops maybe, but desktops?
It was a $400USD lenovo budget desktop, so you can probably do the math on why there was so little ram. I’m pretty sure they designed it specifically for running things like an office suite and other low resource intesive software.
No slight against lenovo, but I’m positive it was meant to be for light work and I just used it for more than I should have.
Edit:
Thought about it, and around 2021 and not 23 when I got it. So still doesn’t make a super huge amiunt of sense, but whatever.