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frontpageiconian | Staff posted Nov 04, 2024 05:34 PM
Dell Coupon: 50% Off Refurbished Dell 5420 Laptops (Various Specs)
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that said the specs are good and the processor is good. get a 1080p version with a quad core, and I would personally do 2x8 for 16gb and that's all you'll need. I have many laptops with 11th gen and I am quite pleased with them.
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that said the specs are good and the processor is good. get a 1080p version with a quad core, and I would personally do 2x8 for 16gb and that's all you'll need. I have many laptops with 11th gen and I am quite pleased with them.
Dell Latitude 5420 Notebook with Intel Core i7 Quad (i7-1185G7) 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD or
Dell Latitude 5420 Notebook with Intel Core i7 Quad (i7-1185G7) 3.00 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD
Do we really need 512GB SSD?
Which will perform well.
requirement is trivial. If it's got an 11th gen i5 or i7 and 8+ GB of RAM, it'll run just fine.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2...orted-pcs/
Mind you there are those who argue a fresh clean install of Windows on a regular basis is a good thing anyways to keep your PC running smoothly
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2...orted-pcs/
Mind you there are those who argue a fresh clean install of Windows on a regular basis is a good thing anyways to keep your PC running smoothly
More importantly, Coffee Lake (8th generation)--with its support of TPM--has now been out for over seven of those ten years, so it's getting harder to justify 7th gen and earlier devices. The lack of TPM isn't the only downside; things like power consumption/battery life, maximum memory allowed, memory speed, supported drive read/write speeds, etc. make upgrading to a cheap 8th thru 10th or 11th gen device a great value for the money, and don't require any bypassing tricks to install Windows 11.
Given that it's not hard to find one (in laptop form) for dirt cheap...as little as $80-$100, those otherwise fine 3rd thru 7th-gen devices are living on borrowed time before they end up on the ol' e-waste pile.
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More importantly, Coffee Lake (8th generation)--with its support of TPM--has now been out for over seven of those ten years, so it's getting harder to justify 7th gen and earlier devices. The lack of TPM isn't the only downside; things like power consumption/battery life, maximum memory allowed, memory speed, supported drive read/write speeds, etc. make upgrading to a cheap 8th thru 10th or 11th gen device a great value for the money, and don't require any bypassing tricks to install Windows 11.
Given that it's not hard to find one (in laptop form) for dirt cheap...as little as $80-$100, those otherwise fine 3rd thru 7th-gen devices are living on borrowed time before they end up on the ol' e-waste pile.
Yes, it's Apples to Oranges. It's a desktop, not a laptop. MacOS vs Windows. And it's twice the price.
But if none of that matters to a user, you get something that's a legit modern CPU that sips power in a tiny footprint. It utterly curbstomps these machines in nearly every metric.
Compared that to these 3-4 year old Dell laptops that have been previously used and abused. And they weren't that great to begin with -- terrible 11th gen cooling/thermal throttling, flexing keyboard, and lackluster trackpads. And some of these models are 1366x768!!!! That's a joke of a screen!
The value proposition of these Dells just isn't there -- not at these prices.
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