Laptop

[E.J.D]

I purchased a windows laptop for the first time since the early 2000's. I totally forgot how much windows is slow to load and update. Is anyone using a cooling pad under there laptops? If so what brand and where from. Thanks.

 

[rdm]

Linux FTW

 

[CoachCabo]

PCs are terrible. Mine behaved like shit right out of the box. Whacked it to remove all the extra shit Dell put in there and it runs better. Like better shit.

Bought a MacMini to replace my MacBookPro 2014. This new, tiny ass computer smokes compared to every PC I have ever had. No bullshit. Just does what I ask, without a bunch of crap popping up in the background.

That it smoothly interfaces with my iPads and iPhone are a huge bonus.

 

[heckler7]

depends on what you need it for but PCs are more work friendly and can interface with other products easily, apple only works easily with apple, try to download garmin software or global software and mac wont work

 

[Powerhousehb]

I purchased an Alienware 17" gaming laptop 3 years ago. The thing is nothing short of awesome. Its still in tip top shape and very fast. Cost me $3K totally worth it. 😁

 

[MindlessWork]

My old laptop barely runs windows but runs Linux like a champ and my big rig aka media/file server dual boots with Windows 11 and Linux.

Not really keen on the new laptops these days so keeping my 12 year old laptop going but Linux only.

Considering buying one of those M2 macs however.

 

[MindlessWork]

I purchased an Alienware 17" gaming laptop 3 years ago. The thing is nothing short of awesome. Its still in tip top shape and very fast. Cost me $3K totally worth it. 😁

A few years ago got my nephew a similar laptop, a Lenovo Legend 5 but with a 15.6" screen. $2K but well worth it as he's a hardcore gamer at 16.

 

[DidrikMTG]

<3 apple for almost everything except games. MacBook Pro best thing I ever bought travels from room to room with me.

 

[E.J.D]

I have a distain for Apple products. It wasn't always that way. But After the power beats wireless earbuds failure. A 250 dollar brick sitting in my dresser with the left side refusing to charge due to Apple putting out a product with a known defective pins on the charger but they still releasing it. Fuck them they will never get a dime from me again.

I just needed a basic laptop to use. I got a Lenovo IdeaPad3 gaming. It was 600 on Best Buy on sale. Plan on a ram upgrade and storage soon. I don't plan to game on it but the option is nice to have

 

[heavyiron]

Picked up a HP Spectre a few years ago. Zero issues.

Never used a cooling pad, how much does it help?

 

[tommygunz]

I bought my last one used from a repair shop. Guy said someone brought it in for repair but never picked it up. It works great but it had some old files on it they didn’t remove.

Weird.

 

[E.J.D]

Picked up a HP Spectre a few years ago. Zero issues.

Never used a cooling pad, how much does it help?

From some of the research I've done minimal at best for most of the standard cooling pads

 

[implicitnewt]

I purchased a windows laptop for the first time since the early 2000's. I totally forgot how much windows is slow to load and update. Is anyone using a cooling pad under there laptops? If so what brand and where from. Thanks.

I've never used one and don't expect it would help much. Winders is winders. What proc/memory you have in it?

 

[E.J.D]

I've never used one and don't expect it would help much. Winders is winders. What proc/memory you have in it?

Ryzen 5 5600H processor... 8gDDR 4 3200 megahertz Ram. Think it's running at 2933 or 2966 I can't remember exactly. My upgrade path will be to 16 or 32g. Trying to decide from Crucial, Corsair, Team group or Kingston. Might wanna dabble into light video editing which would be why 32 would be the smarter option.

 

[implicitnewt]

Ryzen 5 5600H processor... 8gDDR 4 3200 megahertz Ram. Think it's running at 2933 or 2966 I can't remember exactly. My upgrade path will be to 16 or 32g. Trying to decide from Crucial, Corsair, Team group or Kingston. Might wanna dabble into light video editing which would be why 32 would be the smarter option.

Should be a decent chip. My company won't buy AMD still and I don't know why so I've got nothing to compare... two i7s and an i5 on my desk right now.

I'd definitely blow the memory out as far as you can though, any more I don't do much under 32. Never really cared about brand in that regard truthfully

 

[E.J.D]

I believe the Ryzen 5600H is comparable to the i5 12 series mobile chips. The i5 have higher individual core clocks but less cores than the Ryzen. Ryzen has more cores and threads.

64 gigs is the max I can go I believe. Need to double check but I'm pretty sure. How how are you going with ram typically? 64 or up to 128? Is there diminishing returns after a certain point.

I appreciate your response and insight!!

 

[implicitnewt]

I believe the Ryzen 5600H is comparable to the i5 12 series mobile chips. The i5 have higher individual core clocks but less cores than the Ryzen. Ryzen has more cores and threads.

64 gigs is the max I can go I believe. Need to double check but I'm pretty sure. How how are you going with ram typically? 64 or up to 128? Is there diminishing returns after a certain point.

I appreciate your response and insight!!

Laptops I stick with 32 mostly. Even running a full time linux VM on my windows machine with 32G doesn't tax it too hard. My linux machine would eventually die into a thrashing mess when I ran with 8 when I first got it. Never reboot with 20 odd things running though nothing plays nice after a while

Depending on how deep you get with video editing I'd start at 32 and look toward 64 depending on $$. I do think it's diminishing returns though, unless you are doing some serious shit there isn't much need for 128G I don't think

 

[E.J.D]

Laptops I stick with 32 mostly. Even running a full time linux VM on my windows machine with 32G doesn't tax it too hard. My linux machine would eventually die into a thrashing mess when I ran with 8 when I first got it. Never reboot with 20 odd things running though nothing plays nice after a while

Depending on how deep you get with video editing I'd start at 32 and look toward 64 depending on $$. I do think it's diminishing returns though, unless you are doing some serious shit there isn't much need for 128G I don't think

Thank you I appreciate it!

 

[Rot-Iron66]

I bought one of these a few yrs back (Lenovo) for $500.00. My first PC buy in over 20 years. (They give me a new laptop every 3 yrs at work).
Thing runs great. (I dont do gaming or anything, just basic stuff)...

 

[Skinnyguy180]

I have had a three laptops over the last 6-7 years and have not had speed issues with windows but I have never paid under 1500 either. In the laptop world you really get what you pay for. Currently using HP OMEN gaming laptop. I dont game but the specs are awesome and I need the speed for day trading.

 

[E.J.D]

Laptops I stick with 32 mostly. Even running a full time linux VM on my windows machine with 32G doesn't tax it too hard. My linux machine would eventually die into a thrashing mess when I ran with 8 when I first got it. Never reboot with 20 odd things running though nothing plays nice after a while

Depending on how deep you get with video editing I'd start at 32 and look toward 64 depending on $$. I do think it's diminishing returns though, unless you are doing some serious shit there isn't much need for 128G I don't think

I'm just learning about VMs. How much resources do you typically allocate for ram, CPU etc when running a VM? Say your system has 64 gigs of ram, 1tb SSD etc. Do you just run a Linux VM or the other operating systems out there like Ubuntu? My quest for knowledge leads me into interesting places lol. Thanks for any info!

 

[implicitnewt]

I'm just learning about VMs. How much resources do you typically allocate for ram, CPU etc when running a VM? Say your system has 64 gigs of ram, 1tb SSD etc. Do you just run a Linux VM or the other operating systems out there like Ubuntu? My quest for knowledge leads me into interesting places lol. Thanks for any info!

Depends on what you will be doing in it. My primary VM is Mint (a distro based on Ubuntu) that I do development in. Couple cores and 8G is more than enough for that. If I'm just testing a new distro or doing work on a server type distro with no gui, I'll give it half that. If it was my primary desktop I'd double it.. actually I'd run it on hardware and put windows in a VM if it was my primary but I need the windows side for my heavily microsoft corporate bits and I don't feel like wiping it out and starting over. And I have a linux laptop sitting next to it as my main desktop.

 

[E.J.D]

Depends on what you will be doing in it. My primary VM is Mint (a distro based on Ubuntu) that I do development in. Couple cores and 8G is more than enough for that. If I'm just testing a new distro or doing work on a server type distro with no gui, I'll give it half that. If it was my primary desktop I'd double it.. actually I'd run it on hardware and put windows in a VM if it was my primary but I need the windows side for my heavily microsoft corporate bits and I don't feel like wiping it out and starting over. And I have a linux laptop sitting next to it as my main desktop.

I appreciate that information. Thank you.