Thread 106377115

What are your favorites?
I'm shopping for one for mom and one to replace my 12 year old ASUS.
It seems 16GB of ram is the bare minimum these days.

A lot of people are recommending Lenovo and Acer.

>>106377115 (OP)
lenovo e-waste special is always the answer

>>106377336
>esg

>>106377115 (OP)
hp G9/G10/G11 250, 255, etc.

>>106377616
People do not say good things about HP.

>>106377115 (OP)
can't go wrong as long as you spend at least $1000

>>106377903
>gaming laptops

>>106377903
No I'm seeing decent stuff between $300-$500. I don't need a gaming laptop and my elder mother certainly doesn't either.
Asus Aspire looks promising.

Thoughts on "renewed" or "refurbished"?

>>106377957
Anus Expired... Excellent choice

>>106377115 (OP)
>It seems 16GB of ram is the bare minimum these days.
You can run 8GB RAM comfortably for browsing and code/document editing, even on something like Windows 11. You only need more if you are running really resource intensive processes like gaming, video editing, AI generation, etc.

I'm running Debian+LXQT on an 8GB chinkbook and sit at 2.5GB used RAM even with a bunch of Chromium tabs and random applications open. I could have gone with 4GB RAM and been fine.

>>106378241
Interesting. Redditfags were saying 16 is the bare minimum. I wonder how many paid shills patrol that site.

>>106377115 (OP)

Walmart sells a MacBook Air M1 for $599 right now. Consider it seriously. The M1 chip is 5yrs old yet in a package that still beats 2025 laptops. I have a 2025 Lenovo L14 from work and it is worse than the 2020 MBA M1. If you got a little extra money go newer of course.

She probably doesn’t even really know how to use a laptop so she’s a perfect candidate for a MacBook. It’s great.

>>106377115 (OP)
are there any laptops with e-ink screens yet? I don't care for colors, I just want a portable computer with a physical keyboard that I can actually see in sunlight.
>why
because a desktop PC can do everything else, better

>>106378302
With Reddit I'd say it's less paid shills and more uncritically parroting the socially acceptable opinion. 16 is the safest option you can say to not have people downvote or browbeat you for saying too high or too low a number.

It's the optimal number socially, but not the optimal number architecturally (which depends on your use case).

>>106378793
the most well known reddit powermod was ghislane maxwell...

>>106378241
Your laptop uses RAM for iGPU so you have way less than 8 GB compared to a desktop.
If you don't see the use case of, say, running Minecraft with Youtube videos playing in the background sure.

>>106378862
Power mods being political shills has nothing to do with users recommending RAM. But yeah Reddit has multiple problems as a platform.

>>106378884
>Your laptop uses RAM for iGPU so you have way less than 8 GB compared to a desktop.
I was accounting for this. I'm at 2.5GB of used RAM including the RAM being used by my iGPU.

>If you don't see the use case of, say, running Minecraft with Youtube videos playing in the background sure.
I said gaming was one of the things that would require more RAM. Meant to add virtual machines to that list.

>>106377115 (OP)
For modern shit i have an hp 255 g10
Its not my fav machine but it seems to work very well.
My daily is an ibm t60.
For intensive shit i have a dell precision m6800 i pulled out of the computer recycling dumpster at work.

>>106377754
Enterprise units are a different story from the consumer world

>>106377115 (OP)
Just get her a chromebook if she's the type to only browse websites and not download stuff. Cant run .exe files on em natively but theyre cheap and "modern" and come built in with their own version of linux called croutini or smth. What I personally did was get linux space, get wine and have my own windows vm. Idk if ur mom/ my sex friend cares about that stuff tho

>>106377115 (OP)
Don’t buy some shit with weak hinges

>>106379988
You do understand that thin clients and remote desktop are thing, right?

>>106380941
Not a real laptop and might as well buy android tablet.

>>106377115 (OP)
>one to replace my 12 year old ASUS
ASUS TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition (2023)

>>106384059
I don't need to use a laptop for gaming anymore. That's what the desktop and steam deck are for. Just watching youtube, my t.v. and movie archive and editing videos.