Laptop recommendations.

[stevej37]

My Dell laptop is almost nine years old and works as good as new.
A couple years back, it started slowing down, so I installed Windows 10 and it gave it new life.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by stevej37

My Dell laptop is almost nine years old and works as good as new.
A couple years back, it started slowing down, so I installed Windows 10 and it gave it new life.

A Solid State drive and RAM upgrade usually make them work fine.

[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by red-beard

You might also look at the Dell Outlet. Some are brand new, some are customer returns, some corporate over-runs, some refurbished and some scratch-n-dent.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/dfh/shop/dell-refurbished/cp/outlet

256 GB SSD and 8GB RAM for $450

https://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineSales/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch.aspx?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh&sign=PXhcOSHtr1T4IOw%2fPR7UdcbsKD6QJ%2fvSrfxy67kqY MRkuOeSRBE7LKZ8MtdP7BPmhhR6SXKKF97ze41fVnRdP30ndmB 43BADv5jKNV5%2bEWI4cgrlss2gdLANHrSXc5uHJRYkDBn0H72 Cpv20e7ZnO63licXw1PsjD9GQQ24nykN2ZhkK0Dtwkq6EzQQvx wwpuxS4WspHsDrh3YkiZUJYyg%3d%3d

[!pse203]

Micro Center good for refurb/open box items too.

www.microcenter.com

[craigster59]

I’ve always purchased refurbished MacBooks from the Apple website. Never had a problem and they’ve lasted years with no hiccups.

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by billybek

I cannot tell you how much this is fricken pissing me off....

Probably because your keyboard is failing! You've been reduced to tweets!

[billybek]

Originally Posted by cabmando

Probably because your keyboard is failing! You've been reduced to tweets!

I have discovered my touch screen keyboard. Still not ideal but a bit better than cutting and pasting the letters that have stopped functioning.
Computer has come very close to making a short flight with a hard landing....

[dad911]

No USB? Plug in a keyboard for the short term.

[billybek]

my wife has the office in the house, i am working from my lap in the family room. really need to do something about that...
Good idea though.

[dad911]

If you plug in a USB keyboard, and have internet access, I suspect laptop will recognize it.

My wife uses a keyboard with number pad. Easy-peasy.

[wildthing]

Some video editing required? At 1500 CAD get the most RAM and the largest SSD. A Windows machine will almost always have better specs than a similarly priced Mac. If you want to pay for the looks then go with Mac.

I got my daughter a Dell XPS. They seem to be pretty good and are sometimes on sale at Costco.

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by billybek

I have discovered my touch screen keyboard. Still not ideal but a bit better than cutting and pasting the letters that have stopped functioning.
Computer has come very close to making a short flight with a hard landing....

Just wait till you figure out there's a button you can hit to talk to the computer and it does the typing! Man are you gonna be mad!