I finally spent my Christmas money and ordered a new laptop.
Wow, that's nice.
I've been saving for a new desktop. I'm about half way where I want to be.
I want to keep my son involved so we could do a project together and build our new computers together.
He's got the money, but I want him to invest more than $$ and have Dad do everything for him. I want HIM to make some choices.
He could learn a lot!
He does about a week of good research and then gets distracted with nonsense.
We'll get there some day.
I just picked a lower end model from a reputable brand. I don't do much online so I don't need anything powerful or fancy. The one I have has gotten slow and its no longer supported, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.
Last time I bought a laptop I went for "future proof" and bought a top grade HP. Which basically means that I bought the least obsolete product still available on the market. As we all know, by the time the top shit hits the consumer market, it is already obsolete. So true, but I wanted a hot processor set up for doing my fractal work. I know, this is laughable, btu I do what I do.
A new software program I have been using for fractal imagery the past two years has some rather lofty requirements and I wanted to keep up.
I use my Desktop unit mostly and for all rendering because the depth of these images takes days sometimes to complete the math.
I generally keep my laptop with me, so I need something highly portable as well.
I got over the sticker shock and buyer's remorse after a few days of using it.
I have a number of outdated desktops I still use. One sits in the garage to play Tidal, Spotify or Qello. Another is set up to run XP (obviously it has everything except sound and music decoding turned off and has never seen the internet) that I use as a music server to play from about fourteen discs of music hooked up to it.
I hope your new one does everything you want it to do and "minds you" well so you don't have to slap it so much.
I have been thinking of picking up a mid grade Chromebook for gaming and such. I play "Empires and Puzzles" every few days.