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#311232 26-Dec-2023 15:19

Hey everyone, was wondering if you had any recommendations for a decent laptop at the moment? I've been out of the space for awhile and my laptops power socket has become busted and since the power brick is also gone and apparently they don't make them anymore according to their official repairer who at the time could only offer me one with a 3 month warranty, it's probably best to get a new one. Kinda sucks because aside from the power & battery the laptop works fine., It's a Gigabyte P17F for reference.

Anyway, do you have any recommendations? I have a main PC at home so this is for on the go use and to basically be an extension of my home PC

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#3175556 26-Dec-2023 15:54

I've become an increasingly large fan of getting a cheap ex-lease business-grade model. You get something that's built better than a consumer model, at half the price or less, with the only penalty being a couple of generations of hardware.

Big question is going to be whether integrated graphics are good enough. I'd argue yes unless you're intending on serious gaming on it.

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#3175583 26-Dec-2023 17:15

HP Probooks for general use machines. I find consumer based laptops are pretty sucky these days.

If want somehting with dedicated GFX for gaming etc, I picked up a Dell gaming laptop for youngest on sale from JB for $1498 down from $1998. Looks like it was last one in country though, as they now only have the next model up available Dell Gaming G15 15.6" FHD 120Hz Gaming Laptop (13th Gen Intel i7) [GeForce RTX 4050] - JB Hi-Fi NZ (jbhifi.co.nz)

Daughters one is 13th gen i5 with 3060 6GB video - more than enough to keep her happy in Fortnite @120FPS :D Is better machine than my desktop ;)

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#3175643 26-Dec-2023 18:31

Here's some Microsoft Surface Laptop Deals from the Microsoft Store

I'm more into something with an AMD Ryzen APU like the HP Elitebook 845 G9/G10 for both decent gaming performance and general use.

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#3175662 27-Dec-2023 08:19

SomeoneSomewhere:
I've become an increasingly large fan of getting a cheap ex-lease business-grade model. You get something that's built better than a consumer model, at half the price or less, with the only penalty being a couple of generations of hardware.

Big question is going to be whether integrated graphics are good enough. I'd argue yes unless you're intending on serious gaming on it.

I would be concerned about Microsoft's planned obsolescence with Windows 10 x lease laptops. Yes it's easy to upgrade one to Windows 11 if MS will continue to support them post 2025 and refuse updates unless you can side load them.

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#3175665 27-Dec-2023 08:44

With Ex-lease, consult a list like this if you're worried about Windows 10

https://www.pcworld.com/article/394793/what-cpus-can-run-windows-11.html

Otherwise, depending on your use case, Linux is always an option worth investigation.

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#3175666 27-Dec-2023 08:50

I think ex commercial is always the best. (Elitebook/Zbook)

PB Tech have a lot of these come up but appear to charge a premium for them.

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#3175667 27-Dec-2023 08:55

Older and ex lease laptops with older generation cpus are relatively slow. Today’s i5 are faster than many i7 from a few years ago.

I just bought a Lenovo g15 G3 i5 8GB 128GB business laptop from PBT, replaced the ssd with 1TB and added a 32GB module so now 40GB 1TB and quite fast for $1k brand new. Oddly the same spec is listed at $500 more.

Ex lease i5 z book on sale at PBT has half the cpu benchmark, a quarter of the RAM, a quarter of the SSD and a quarter of the warranty costs more.

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#3175717 27-Dec-2023 09:31

johno1234:
Ex lease i5 z book on sale at PBT has half the cpu benchmark, a quarter of the RAM, a quarter of the SSD and a quarter of the warranty costs more.

Which brings me back to my point while PB Tech have a lot of ex-lease laptops they are charging a premium for them hence you need to look at the likes trademe and others.

I got my wife a Lenovo T14 Gen 2 in the US for 180USD at a pawn shop with an i5 and 16GB ram, 512SSD

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#3182245 15-Jan-2024 15:58

Hey Everyone,

What do you think of this: https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKASU1504274/ASUS-Vivobook-Go-E1504FA-156-FHD-Laptop-AMD-Ryzen

It's mostly going to be used for Office, accessing and viewing content on my NAS, working on Home Assistant, just general tasks away from my Desktop which is what id use for gaming instead of the laptop and I could always stream the game from the Desktop to the Laptop if I really wanted to play from a different room. The 16GB of ram looks good, Ryzen 5 so decent. The only draw back I can see over the model which is $150 more is that it's Wi-Fi 5 but I don't see that as a major deal, big fan of its small profile as well, a lot of the laptops these days have massive bezels which I'm not a fan of.

Ah crap just saw its Oled, burn in would be a concern.

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#3182248 15-Jan-2024 16:21

I'd still stick with HP Probook......

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#3182333 15-Jan-2024 18:39

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKASU1504274/ASUS-Vivobook-Go-E1504FA-156-FHD-Laptop-AMD-Ryzen

It doesn't seem very powerful

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#3182390 15-Jan-2024 19:29

mattwnz:

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKASU1504274/ASUS-Vivobook-Go-E1504FA-156-FHD-Laptop-AMD-Ryzen

It doesn't seem very powerful

Same RAM and SSD, quite a lot faster, Win11 Pro v Home:

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKLEN150353/Lenovo-V15-G3-156-FHD-Business-Laptop-Intel-Core-i

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#3182488 15-Jan-2024 22:52

johno1234:

mattwnz:

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKASU1504274/ASUS-Vivobook-Go-E1504FA-156-FHD-Laptop-AMD-Ryzen

It doesn't seem very powerful

Same RAM and SSD, quite a lot faster, Win11 Pro v Home:

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKLEN150353/Lenovo-V15-G3-156-FHD-Business-Laptop-Intel-Core-i