To Buy or Not to Buy?

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msukiwi

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#302100 28-Oct-2022 14:26

I'm after a Win11Pro 17" Laptop and have found this: (Note: Will NOT be used for Gaming)

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKASU702066/ASUS-Vivobook-17-X1702ZA-Business-Laptop-173-FHD-I#product-specs-anchor

Price seems really good.

Any obvious pitfalls?

vexxxboy

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#2989331 28-Oct-2022 17:46

cheaper here

https://www.justlaptops.co.nz/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=17183&currency=NZD&gclid=CjwKCAjw2OiaBhBSEiwAh2ZSP3eMlSJVFPNx_eXpX4bb6EWSkh-SE72sH12f5roiUHE418epQFTF7hoCMgoQAvD_BwE

Common sense is not as common as you think.

msukiwi

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#2989336 28-Oct-2022 17:57

Only for Cash etc, no CC - I'm in Christchurch.

Edited to say Just Laptops one is an i5 not the i7.

12xCore i5-1240P

fe31nz

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#2989406 29-Oct-2022 00:12

Personally, I would not buy a Windows system that only had 512 Mbytes of storage. I always want to have a second boot partition, and Windows always takes more and more storage. But it depends on what your needs are. It is PCIe 3.0 SSD, so it should be decently fast. Its video output is only HDMI 1.4, so its ability to run an external monitor at 4k is a bit limited. Again, it depends on what you want to do with it. It does have a proper numeric keypad, which is good. Two of the USB ports are only USB 2.0, which I would have a problem with as I use lots of external USB 3 drives on my laptop, and there is no Ethernet port so if you need that, you would be using up one of the USB 3 ports. At 2.1 kg, it is getting a bit heavy, but that is probably just the penalty you pay for having a 17" screen. My Dell G7 7700 17" is 2.8 kg and rather more expensive.

msukiwi

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#2989408 29-Oct-2022 00:29

fe31nz:... I would not buy a Windows system that only had 512 Mbytes of storage.

Don't you mean Gigabytes?

Storage: 512GB M.2 NVMe™ PCIe® 3.0 SSD

Yes.....it is for "upgrading" a project. Currently my Win10 Laptop runs the external hardware via 2 x USB2 ports. (RF based H/W)

That is the only requirement. Wireless / Internet would only used for OS updates. (Pen Drive to update the s/w that I use - as a backup to a desktop)

Currently apart from the OS I only need about 20GB of storage. (So that allows plenty for MSBloatware!)