Laptop for fiancee
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Neon
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PostPosted: Sat, 29th Aug 2015 14:47    Post subject: Laptop for fiancee
She really needs a new one Laughing Her old one is a Sony Vaio, but it survived way too much shit (tea spilled twice), now it basically makes a noise like a jet 24/7 and it's slow as fuck Laughing It has 4 GB of RAM and an i3 @ 2.13 GHz.

Anyway.

Maximum budget is around $650.

The three main things she wants is long-ish battery life and some performance improvement.

The main ones I've been looking at are ASUS Transformer Book Flip TP500LA and LENOVO FLEX 2. I'm not totally sure about them, so any other ideas are welcome. Smile
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Guy_Incognito




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PostPosted: Sat, 29th Aug 2015 14:56    Post subject:
How about cleaning it up and putting an SSD instead of HDD inside?
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Paintface




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PostPosted: Sat, 29th Aug 2015 15:06    Post subject:
Guy_Incognito wrote:
How about cleaning it up and putting an SSD instead of HDD inside?


that and buy a new battery
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Janz




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PostPosted: Sat, 29th Aug 2015 15:07    Post subject:
would say the same. completely clean it up, replace the thermal compound. buy a new ssd and maybe a new battery (so you spend about ~150usd)

if you want a reasonable performance upgrade for the i3 you will need more than 650bucks for a new one
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VGAdeadcafe




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PostPosted: Sat, 29th Aug 2015 16:16    Post subject:
Why is it slow? Do a diagnostic to see if the disk is dying. If yes, backup everything and replace with another.

If not, maybe it's the OS, do a clean install of 8.1 or 10 or something.
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Janz




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PostPosted: Sat, 29th Aug 2015 16:21    Post subject:
because its a sony. those things magicly suck in dust like a vacuum cleaner.

if it still has waranty -> send it in, they do the nasty cleaning work for you. if not -> do it by yourself. buy a new ssd and you are fine. but already said that Wink done that with a vaio from a friend. was slow as fuck,hot and loud. she already send it in a year ago or so, but again it was dusty as fuck and out of warranty -> is now fast, not loud and not nearly as hot as it got before
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