expired Posted by Dr.W • Jan 30, 2025
Jan 30, 2025 4:19 PM
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expired Posted by Dr.W • Jan 30, 2025
Jan 30, 2025 4:19 PM
Dell Inspiron 14 Plus (Open-Boxes): 14" QHD+ IPS Touch, Snapdragon X Plus, X1P-64-100, 16GB LPDDR5, 512GB SSD $370.99
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As for this laptop, I've never used this specific Dell but at this price it seems a great deal if you just need a basic productivity laptop and you're on a tight budget. Decent size, weight, display, and port selection. It's not going to be premium feeling, but it'll get the job done as long as everything you need to do works fine on Windows on ARM. Generally these snapdragon laptops have good performance and battery life for everyday tasks. If you do more demanding work I think there's better options.
If you can stretch your budget I do think there's better laptops available in the $500-600 range right now, especially open box deals. But at under $400 this seems good to get a modern processor.
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I saw this video and for any x86 apps has to be emulated and it takes alot of memory and cpu if it runs. Even with the emulator, it often crash and it does not run. You can forget about games, There's a select games which runs with ARM, but the majority of them you can forget about it.
The good thing is that the battery life is much better and they say that some apps like Chrome works even better than the x86 version.
It is best if you look at what apps you have in your laptop which you need to see if it is compatible. As I mentioned, I need Fortinet vpn software and they don't have an ARM version yet so it is a dealbreaker for me. Meanwhile, Lunar Lake supposed to be much better than the snapdragon cpu without the compaibility issues. I guess I will wait for one to be in the bargain bin before I will buy one.
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I wouldn't buy this for gaming or to run non-arm graphic or 3d design apps.