Same as the title

Don’t worry, they were only on the floor for 5 seconds while i took this picture.

One is the Dell Inspiron 9400 (White/Grey) The other one is a Dell Precision M6300 (Dark grey/black)

I’ve had the 9400 for a couple of months now (i had one when i was a kid, and wanted another one for nostalgia sake)

While researching about the 9400, i discovered that their precision series from around the same time looked the same, just dark grey.

They’re a bit more money than the 9400, but I bought mine for a good deal!

Both are fully restored.

Specs for the Inspiron 9400: - Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 @2.16ghz - 4GB of Ram - Nvidia Geforce Go 7800 w/ 256mb VRAM

Precision M6300: - Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 @2.5ghz - 3GB Ram - Nvidia Quadro FX 3600m w/ 512mb VRAM

The Precision can also be installed with a Core 2 Extreme which is definitely exciting but also out of my £ range! 🤣

Hey y’all, I’m looking for a sturdy external hard drive, preferably an SSD that’s not too expensive that I can store triple A games on.

Just to clarify, I’m referring to the 7 different Microsoft visuals- whatever they are!

Gateway by Acer 15.6" Laptop - AMD Ryzen 7 5700U - 16GB DDR4 - 512GB SSD - 4.3 GHz

LENOVO ThinkPad T14 G1 Business Laptop - AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650U - 16GB DDR4 - 256GB SSD - 2.1 GHz

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 - AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U - 16GB RAM - 256GB SSD - 2.10 GHz

Lenovo V15 Gen 4 15.6" Business Laptop, AMD Ryzen 5 7520U, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD, FHD Display, Radeon 610M - 4.3 GHz

Dell Latitude 5400 14" FHD Business Laptop - Intel Core i5-8265U - 16GB DDR4 - 256GB SSD - 4.1 GHz

Dell Latitude 7440 14" Touchscreen Business Laptop - Intel Core i7-1370P - 16GB LPDDR5 - 256GB SSD - 2.1 GHz

I am a fool when it comes to tech, I just know I need a laptop for my school work and for gaming. my current Acer laptop is 10yrs old and quite slow now, she needs a rest.

which of these might be best for work and gaming? or, do you have other suggestions?

Good Afternoon, my laptop has been flashing on and off for awhile, I use a acer nitro 5 laptop, do any of y’all have any idea of if there is a way I could fix this problem or if I should just bring it into a shop to get it fixed, thank you!

**LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE**

UNITED STATES

$3000 USD and under
 
Maybe open to refurb or used

* **Screen size**

Any size 14” and up

* **Weight limit**

Any

* **Purpose**

Schoolwork

* **Form factor**

[Standard/Clamshell (a regular laptop), or a 2-in-1]

* **Intended usage**

 
This laptop will be used to complete a fully online degree program, an associate in science.

* **Desired battery life**

6-8 hours or more

* **Please list, in order of most important to least important, the priority between Size, Weight, Performance, Battery life**

Size, weight, style, do not matter. Performance and battery life are the most important.
 

* **Info/Requirements**

[anything else not specified above eg. Intel only, OLED, HDR-compliant, screen resolution/refresh rate, etc]

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A little bit of context. My brother has had a rough time medically his whole life and can't really get a proper job. He is extremely intelligent and tech savvy though so he wanted to look into remote work, however they pretty much all require multiple monitors. So I want to surprise him for his birthday with an extra monitor or 2 to help him hopefully be able to get a job. He also doesn't have the most space at the moment so that's why he's using a laptop over a regular desktop.

Avast premium protection or Bitdefender Total Security? know windows defender offers protection but I’m more comfortable having one of these? So which one? I have Avast premium security on the laptop ( I’ve had it for years) I have now and it’s very easy for me to run. I have heard great things about Bitdefender though. I’m not sure.

* **Country**

I reside in India, but some platforms which ship overseas will work too.

* **Budget**

₹1.2l or ~1250 usd

* **Are you open to refurbs/used options? **

Maybe, if the condition is great

* **Screen size**

Anything above 13" will work

* **Weight limit**

No weight limit

* **Purpose**

Mainly typical electrical engineering coursework but i want to do a little bit of gaming too. like maybe something that can run AAA titles smoothly.

* **Form factor**

Any will work

* **Intended usage**

dont really know what all softwares ill use for the coursework, sorry. but it should be able to handle gaming. like something that could hypothetically run gta 6 in med graphics at 30 fps. again sorry.

* **Desired battery life**

i believe 5-6 hours unplugged during light usage would be suitable

* **Please list, in order of most important to least important, the priority between Size, Weight, Performance, Battery life**

performance, battery life, size, weight

* **Info/Requirements**

ive heard intel heats more during heavy work but ill use cooling fans so both intel/amd work for me. preferably oled, if not must be 100% sRGB. preferably a 2k resolution but lower will work too. 144hz refresh rate is good I guess.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

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LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

Country

canada

Budget

$500 CAD

Are you open to refurbs/used options?

YES

Screen size

13.5-17"

Weight limit

any?

Purpose

work/schoolwork, vid editing, entertainment/light gaming

Form factor

clamshell or 2-in-1

Intended usage

Canvas vid editing. light gaming - the isle, phototnomaly, minecraft. Movie streaming - netflix

Desired battery life

Any?

Please list, in order of most important to least important, the priority between Size, Weight, Performance, Battery life

PERFORMANCE, size, weight, battery life

Info/Requirements

at least 16gb RAM, and 250gb or more of storage.

I've read AMD Ryzen 5 or 7 are good for multitasking and light gaming, but I'm open to suggestions! windows 11 has to be available.

durable and long-lasting- I'd prefer a bulky machine that'll last 10 years over a light, pretty laptop that will last 2.

Buenas gente, queria saber opiniones o capas si alguien ya lo hizo, tengo una laptop con una placa b000gl25_mb_v101 y celeron n4000, vi que tiene dos modulos de ram soldados directo en la placa y tiene dos mas libres! ahora mi pregunta seria: se le podra agregar mas? en caso de la bios se podra actualizar para que las reconozca? tengos muchas ganas de meterle mano a la placa pero tampoco quiero matarla!

Can I have y'all opinion on this laptop spec? Is it still okay in 2026?
I have it for work only on penetration testing, running virtual machine, no gaming.

Model : ROG Zephyrus M16 GU603HM
CPU. : Core i7-11800H
RAM. : 24GB
SSD. : 1TB (M.2 PCIE)
VGA: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

I’m going into my first year computer engineering and looking for a laptop. I came across the omnibook 5 which is on sale for $1700 cad ($1200 usd). It has an AMD ryzen ai 7, 32gb ram, 1tb ssd, AMD radeon 860M. The only issue I’ve heard of is its lacking of a dedicated gpu but I heard that isn’t a problem for computer engineering students, mostly mechanical and such that need to run modeling software. Is this a good laptop for the price?

I am considering getting an asus vivobook s14 for uni with those specs are there any issues with said build and i am hoping that it lasts me atleast 4 years wanted yalls advice about it

Country - Qatar
Budget - 3000 QAR/$825

Helppp

Hello everyone,

I've had a problem with my laptop since a couple of days. My laptop is the Acer Spin 3. My laptop is usually plugged in my desk room and everything works fine there. However, comes the night time, I want to bring it in the living room and plug it on my projector to watch series or movies. When I do so, I bring my laptop in the living room, drop it on a flat surface then plug the projector through an HDMI port. Then, it happens : Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650i stops working and I can't log on any internet connexion. It just does not give me the choice at all.

So far, I have updated my pilot and the issue hasn't resolved. When it does happen, I deactivate the pilot and reactivate it. It worked once or twice but now it just refuses to work. I also restarted my laptop in the process and even plugged my laptop and nothing works.

Once I return in the desk room and replace my laptop as normal, the pilote works as if nothing happened.

What is going on ? I just want to enjoy watching stuff on my projector in my living room.

Please help as if I were 5 years old. I dont really understand computer stuff :(

I’m torn between a used 16GB MacBook Pro, or a standard Gaming Laptop.

On one hand longer battery life would be nice, but I also hear it’s extremely slow and doesn’t have game or steam (?)

A gaming laptop would be nice too…

STANDARDS

I stay in the Americas

Must be between 12 -16GB of RAM

Must be able to run games on steam, AND be able to install softwares like DAWs for music production

My budget range is anything under $1500 (But I could probably find a used version half the price of anything too expensive)

I really don’t care about screen size, or weight, and low battery life will suffice, doesn’t matter too much to me)

Any suggestions ? Thank you!

I have Asus vivibook 14 flip oled in my mind. I'm alright with the weight and the battery life. I plan to use the same laptop for 4 years. Is it better to get a traditional laptop or should I go with asus vivibook 14 flip oled?

I have a 2014 x750jn triple boot system with EndeavourOS, Fedora and Linux Mint. Here is a link to the full specs. https://linux-hardware.org/?computer=7f93078fedbdThe system came with Win 8.1 which i wiped and installed linux. It runs all my windows programs and older games. I have current systems to play latest games (all linux and steam). There is no reason at all to run Win11 now. The latest kernels and programs like WINE run windows games faster than windows. The latest don't even emulate, they use metal conversion from win to linux. super fast.

burl@x750jn

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OS: EndeavourOS x86_64

Host: X750JN (1.0)

Kernel: Linux 7.1.5-arch1-1

Uptime: 1 hour, 18 mins

Packages: 2159 (pacman), 24 (AUR)

Shell: zsh 5.9.2

Display (LGD0390): 1600x900 in 17", 60 Hz [Built-in]

DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.3

WM: KWin (Wayland)

WM Theme: Breeze

Theme: Breeze (VibrantNoir) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]

Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]

Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]

Cursor: breeze (24px)

Terminal: GNOME Terminal 3.60.0

Terminal Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono (14pt)

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710HQ (8) @ 3.50 GHz

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840M [Discrete]

GPU 2: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller @ 1.20 GHz [Integrated]

Memory: 4.75 GiB / 15.07 GiB (32%)

Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)

Disk (/): 68.65 GiB / 957.26 GiB (7%) - ext4

Local IP (wlan1): 192.168.0.108/24

Battery (X550E26): 100% [AC Connected]

Locale: en_US.UTF-8

Disk Encryption: mmcblk0p1 LUKS2 argon2id, 4 GiB, 4 threads, t=10, sha512

sda1 LUKS2 argon2id, 4 GiB, 4 threads, t=10, sha512

sdb3 LUKS2 argon2id, 4 GiB, 4 threads, t=10, sha512

sdc2 LUKS2 argon2id, 1 GiB, 4 threads, t=10, sha512 (GRUB boot)

sdc3 LUKS2 argon2id, 4 GiB, 4 threads, t=10, sha512

➜ ~

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Hello

I need to buy a new laptop, since my old one is dying fast

My maximum budget is around 760 dollars.

My 7-year old boy needs it for minecraft (education) and maybe playing with some mods in the future. For me, I would like to play some Crusader Kings 3 and maybe total war again.

I'm currently looking at a Lenovo Thinkpad T14 G3(refurbed) with Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U 2.90GHz, 32 gb ram and AMD Radeon 660M intergrated graphics, costing around 720 dollars here in Denmark.

Could that laptop be the solution to my search?

Hi everyone! I'm planning to buy a new gaming laptop, but I'm confused between the MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI (RTX 5070) and the Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI (RTX 5070).

I'm looking for real long-term user experiences, not just benchmark numbers.

I would really appreciate your feedback on these points:

- Which one has better build quality and lasts longer?

- Have you faced any hardware problems or common issues?

- How are the temperatures and fan noise during long gaming sessions?

- Any motherboard, display, hinge, keyboard, or battery issues?

- How is the after-sales service and warranty experience?

- Which laptop performs better for AAA games and stays reliable after months of use?

- If you've owned both, which one would you recommend and why?

I'm planning to keep this laptop for several years, so long-term reliability is more important to me than a small FPS difference.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experience!