I buy expensive stuff in most other aspects of my life... might as well here. I just had some sticker shock thinking I was going to get nike/adidas/UA brand 2 pairs of shorts and a 2-3 shirts for 100, not 300.
Under Armour outlet (a tab on their site) is an extra 30% off orders over $150 right now with code LABORDAY30. I believe Nike has an extra 20% off clearance and adidas has an extra 30% off right now too.
I'm also looking at a new laptop for office use. After looking around for a week+ , this deal seems to good to be true. Nothing compares at this price. https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000E-09BU0 Lenovo 81DM0005US Ideapad 330 17.3" Laptop Notebook 8th Gen i7 GeForce MX150 16GB Memory 1TB Hard Drive $679 What should keep me from pulling the trigger? The 3rd party seller is VIP Oulet. They have a few negative complaints, but it seems it's from refurb models not brand new items. I would use PayPal through NewEgg to add some buyer protection maybe. Walmart also sells this laptop through the same 3rd party.
I cannot imagine buying an electronic one cares about (phone, laptop, big tv, etc) without the benefit of primary/original warranty. Not worth the 10-30% savings to risk having no or a lessor warranty. I would also avoid refurbs in most circumstances on big purchases too.
You should look for something with at least 8th generation i5 processors. With everything mainly being cloud based, you should definitely get solid state drives instead of traditional disc hard drives. They'll have less storage space on the actual computer, but they're a lot faster. And you're going to want at least 8gb of RAM.
yeah but with a cut-rate seller. If not authorized by the manufacturer as valid reseller/merchant, the warranty from "VIP Outlet" is likely worthless.
Lenovo.com chat said the unit would be covered under the manufacturer 1yr warranty. The additional warranty is through Square Tech if I purchase one. Does that still raise a red flag for you?
TBH, I do not know. If lenovo says that the warranty from that third party seller ("VIP Outlet") is covered for one year, then surely its covered for one year. I'm anal enough that I would review their written policies as a double confirmation of the Chat agents transcript - I looked here, btu didn't see anything. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/warrantylookup/warrantypolicy Many electronics manufacturers will only honor warranties from "authorized" sellers - and publish lists on their website. Here is sony's link for example - https://www.sony.com/retailers I only say this to be helpful. I've seen too many people have problems with TVs and the like online, but left holding the bag when something goes wrong.
I customize it how I want and Lenovo assembles. I haven't put a computer together since the 90's, that's pleb work.
So in the market for washer and dryer and see that this board is high on the LG's. I am between that and speed queen but have read about all of the issues they have had over the last two years. Are the newer speed queens worth the extra coin over the beloved LG's and if so which model?
Was too lazy to rewire my porch fixture for motion so I got a couple of these. Just the absolute tits
wes tegg what was the workout gear you were talking about on here a few months ago. After you posted I actually ran into some at the store but can't remember the name of it for the life of me.
Just had the pump replaced on my LG. The repairman said he would go LG or Whirlpool. Whirlpool has been around forever and every repairman knows how work on them. LG makes good stuff and they’re parts are cheap if/when something goes.
Update: I'm taking your advice (sort of) and getting one with a dual hard drive 128 SSD boot + 1 TB HDD. Tell me why I'm wrong here. $600 at Staples for this. I can add another stick of 8 GB RAM for $35. 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-8565U Processor (8MB Cache, up to 4.6 GHz) 128GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive (Boot) + 1TB 5400 rpm 2.5" SATA Hard Drive Windows 10 Home 64-bit English 8GB, 1x8GB, DDR4, 2400MHz FHD (1920 x 1080) Anti-Glare LED-Backlit Non-touch IPS Display 17.3" AMD Radeon™ 520 Graphics with 2G GDDR5 graphics memory Non Backlit Keyboard, English 802.11ac + Bluetooth 4.1, Dual Band 2.4&5 GHz 1 Year Mail In Service https://www.staples.com/dell-inspir...computer-intel-core-i7-8565u/product_24393760
That's probably enough RAM for just browsing the internet. I think dual hard drives are generally not-as-good as a regular SSD tho. 128GB isn't a lot of room to work with. if you're just browsing the internet and doing random microsoft office stuff then that should be fine.
Since we're asking for computer advice I'm looking to replace 10 computers or so at our office, almost all of our applications are web-based so they don't have to be strong computers, but a video card that can run dual monitors, and something not too slow with Windows 10 pro. I'm having a hard time finding something like this that isn't refurbished or reasonably priced.
Most all will be towers, may get a few laptops as well - lately for laptops I've been getting the Surface Pros. Somehow I'm in charge of computers I guess because I build a few computers as a college kid.... and I know nothing anymore. Help computer.
The Dell XPS 13 & 15 inch models are tremendously well reviewed. Not 'cheap' but pretty fairly priced imo. I upgraded from samsung i7 to Dell XPS 9570 and its speedy. My personal machine is an i9-9900K
You should be able to get a decent tower for about $500 with a Ci5, 12gb ram, and dual drive system. I just looked at Costco and they had a Dell inspiron 3000 tower for $480 with those specs. No need for discrete graphics. Commercial systems typically don't add them since they are a BOM adder to the system maker and no real use case for commercial applications.
There are certainly applications that utilize/require them, however the vast majority of computers bought for business/commercial use aren't for those applications.
Just had to chime in since my IT department is overnighting me a laptop with a discrete GPU and 64GB of RAM. I’ll post it’s details tomorrow, no idea on cost.
Sounds like a mobile workstation so 3-5k. I’m going to assume you are running CAD or some other type of workload if you need that type of juice.
Priced a Dell precision 7730 system with those configs with it discounted from $6,500 down to $4,400. That's a lot of machine, not the average corporate laptop.