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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Hi Stephen!</p>
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<pre class="western" style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-right: 0.39in"><font color="#007cff">If you want a happy vacation (and life) stick with the 17” screen! </font>
I would love to get a 17" 4K laptop, but so far the prices I have seen
are in the eye watering category - 3 times the price of a reasonable
15.6" 1080p laptop. They all seem to be extreme gaming laptops. But
I have not checked out the business/workstation type laptops yet - and
maybe the HP or Dell web sites will have something. There are
certainly a huge number of laptops available! I have only had time to
visit one shop so far to see them in real life.</pre>
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I tend to like
Lenovo and HP, though maybe not for quite the right reasons. Lenovo
has an IBM-background: tend to be solid and easy to repair,
physically and ‘mentally’ with easy-to-obtain documentation. HP
→ Compaq → DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), which for a while
was a presense in the city I grew up in plus made the computer for
the college I worked in at the time, plus my first real computer
(DEC Rainbow 100) – ah, nostalgia! (Though a thousand dollars for
a megabyte hard drive – eek!) Dell gets points taken away only
because when I try to look up specs on refurbished equipment is
extremely difficult. Creating a brand new unit is completely
different.
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<pre class="western"><blockquote type="cite"><pre class="western">Your experience with a new AMD CPU is completely different from mine.
A couple of months ago, I updated my old "no. 3" Ubuntu 20.04 PC from
a 2008 motherboard to an Asus Rog Strix X570-E Gaming motherboard with
an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (8 core, 16 threads). I chose that processor as
it was the fastest one in the new AMD releases that came with a
cooler, an AMD Wraith Prism, which seems to be their best cooler. All
the faster AMD CPUs come with no supplied cooler and you have to add
one yourself.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">My experience was
with the AMD FX-8320; have forgotten the purchase details but
pretty
sure the CPU box came with a heatsink and fan. Some time later
when
having the overheating problems purchased a replacement based on
the
CPU and “AMD approved” sounds reassuring – same as my original!
<Grrr!> Ended up putting a Cooler Master unit on it - now
runs nice and cool!</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">A BBS buddy in
Montana who has a computer support business also ran into similar
issues with AMD CPUs and heatsinks.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Anyway, get a
decent
laptop and supply us with some of the details so this group knows!</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Barry</p>
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