I Use Cheap Notebooks

Re:I Use Cheap Notebooks by Dalewyn on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:06AM (#35094425)

If I had to guess, various used laptops from a decade or so ago.

For most practical applications, computing performance plateaued around 2011. Just look at how many people can't/won't use Windows 11 just because their ancient relic otherwise still works perfectly fine.

And if you want a source, anecdata is I'm posting this from an i7 2700K (aka Sandy Bridge) machine.

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Re:I Use Cheap Notebooks by AlfredBarnes on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:29AM (#35094672)

Thanks, time to look into older machines.

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Re:I Use Cheap Notebooks by yourusername on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:35AM (#35095688)

Look into business laptops by HP/Dell/Lenovo. You can still easily get parts for them (keyboards/batteries/chargers) they are well built, have easy to find driverpacks from the OEM and were more the most part lightly used and only retired because the lease is up or the latest version of windows doesn't officially support it. You can get very good condition 4th/5th gen intel core laptops for around $150.

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Re:I Use Cheap Notebooks by swilliamsio on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:48AM (#35095902)

If you want a source, Steam Hardware Survey[0] somewhat agrees with what you're saying, especially when taking in to account that gamers would have better specs than average.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

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