Decent Laptop

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I foolishly spilled an entire cup of water on my open laptop and it's dead. I just bought the damn thing in August of last year

All I do is tool around on YouTube and TCG, I don't do anything crazy with it, but I would definitely want it to be able to play without buffering and all that.

Either, what do you guys recommend or does anyone have something like that for sale? The only thing I hated about my last one is the speakers were weak sauce, most videos were hard to hear.

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[Lord Tin Foilhat]

You sure it's dead?

Take battery out and wait a week

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Most cheap laptops will have shit speakers unfortunately

 

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It's been about a week and I followed all of the things I could find online to save it. The power light comes on, which is just about the only change since I killed it, but all it does is come on for like 1-2min and then shuts off, nothing inside of the laptop powers on. I've been told that water in the laptop usually means RIP.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

It's been about a week and I followed all of the things I could find online to save it. The power light comes on, which is just about the only change since I killed it, but all it does is come on for like 1-2min and then shuts off, nothing inside of the laptop powers on. I've been told that water in the laptop usually means RIP.

Yeah sounds toasted

 

[Kensington]

Chromebook? Not like you're asking for huge demands if you're just watching youtube and some light porn browsing. Get a pair of Bluetooth headphones because [MENTION=73]tinfoilhat[/MENTION] is right, the speakers will suck. If it were me, I'd stay away from Dell or HP consumer grade products, but that's a personal preference based on my own experiences.

https://www.newegg.com/Chromebooks/SubCategory/ID-3220?Tid=168884

 

[Yaj Yak]

chromebooks ftmfw

 

[Yaj Yak]

we have a small touch screen one at home and i love it.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Or even a bluetooth speakers will hook up to most laptops too

if no bluetooth, they make bluetooth USB adapters.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

just watch out for older version of bluetooth and watching videos. Sound Lag is atrocious

 

[blakbearddelite]

Yeah, I just paired my laptop with some decent speakers. The factory speakers are barely audible if there's any background noise around me.

 

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Some of those chromebooks are super cheap! Can all of them load YT fast enough to click and watch? I'm extremely impatient and I'm also extremely dumb about anything computer. I really need to just take some classes to understand them better.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Probably. I wouldnt go buying a $100 one that's for sure.

 

[Kensington]

Post a couple that you are thinking and someone here will be able to tell you whether it will be OK or not

 

[Marko]

I like my new Lenovo. It’s both a laptop and touchscreen

Bought it at Best Buy.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo...-memory-midnight-blue/6295998.p?skuId=6295998

 

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^^^That's nice! I'll look more into that one for sure.

This one I thought was pretty nifty, IDK if I'm falling for the Kohl's price "reduction" where it's actually $399 and it's on sale from $600 though

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQH99WD/?tag=tcg21-20

EDIT: It would be cool if I could edit track videos as well, not sure if I'd need extra thinking power for that. I assume thinking power is ram?

 

[Kensington]

What would you be using to edit the videos? A dedicated program or the youtube editor?

 

[Flyn]

You could get something cheap like this, add an SSD (solid state hard drive) to make it fly then add a blue tooth speaker. For around $425, you'd have a fast computer with good sound.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079TGL2BZ/?tag=tcg21-20

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0781Z7Y3S/?tag=tcg21-20

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010OYASRG/?tag=tcg21-20

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Decent computing speed and sound.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

^^^That's nice! I'll look more into that one for sure.

This one I thought was pretty nifty, IDK if I'm falling for the Kohl's price "reduction" where it's actually $399 and it's on sale from $600 though

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQH99WD/?tag=tcg21-20

EDIT: It would be cool if I could edit track videos as well, not sure if I'd need extra thinking power for that. I assume thinking power is ram?

CPU and GPU for video editing.

RAM anything 8+ is plenty

4gb will work for basic stuff but doesn't go as far as it used to with Windows 7

 

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How about this old girl? Massive amounts of ram, should be able to scare away a bunch of Chevy's with that.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0792SMNVX/?tag=tcg21-20

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

First thing you should do with any OEM laptop that comes with Windows 10.

Reset Windows 10 with the "Fresh Start" feature to remove all of the crap that comes with it. HP and Lenovo are the worst when it comes to Pre-installed crap that just makes a low spec laptop chug with all of the services and programs that start as soon as you log in. Can get to it from the Defender Security Center. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10startfresh

Or download the Media Creator tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Use the tool to create a bootable Windows 10 USB drive, and nuke and re-install Windows outright without any of the crap left over by HP.

 

[Knowklew]

I need to do this on my lenovo

First thing you should do with any OEM laptop that comes with Windows 10.

Reset Windows 10 with the "Fresh Start" feature to remove all of the crap that comes with it. HP and Lenovo are the worst when it comes to Pre-installed crap that just makes a low spec laptop chug with all of the services and programs that start as soon as you log in. Can get to it from the Defender Security Center. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10startfresh

Or download the Media Creator tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Use the tool to create a bootable Windows 10 USB drive, and nuke and re-install Windows outright without any of the crap left over by HP.

 

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First thing you should do with any OEM laptop that comes with Windows 10.

Reset Windows 10 with the "Fresh Start" feature to remove all of the crap that comes with it. HP and Lenovo are the worst when it comes to Pre-installed crap that just makes a low spec laptop chug with all of the services and programs that start as soon as you log in. Can get to it from the Defender Security Center. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10startfresh

Or download the Media Creator tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Use the tool to create a bootable Windows 10 USB drive, and nuke and re-install Windows outright without any of the crap left over by HP.

I would love to do this, but I am so damn computer illiterate that everything you've typed looks like a different language to me My closest computer confidante is bikrboy Matt, I should see if he can do all of that for me. BUT, whadja think of the one I posted?

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

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Use your government discount. Dell and Apple. I know we have a link through our intranet for both.

 

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[MENTION=517]10sec[/MENTION]

Use your government discount. Dell and Apple. I know we have a link through our intranet for both.

ORLY? I will look into this immediately.