12

I. HATE. DELL. WITH. MY. GUTS.

Their low tiers products are full black plastic overpriced fuckshit, if you press too much the cover you can actually destroy your display. Fuck shitty laptops and fuck this shitty laptop in particular. It's slow. It's so slooooooow. It's everflying fucking slow motion, being on the web is like being in the matrix while dodging bullets made of wordpress plugins. The only good thing I can say is that is living right now, it has been... Three years? I only picked it because of high discount and ubuntu preinstalled (that made me think: oh, maybe they have components that are linux compatible regardless of distros. It was not). I'm enjoying Manjaro, when I'll have the skillz i'm going full Arch.

I will start university this fall. It's going to be a math major. I absolutely need something better than this anyway. I am also freaking out because I don't know which genre of software they could want to make me install and if they're windows/mac only. In the meanwhile I do photography, video, design and as you may suppose Adobe is often my go-to; I also have to build a workstation at home. I am freaking out because WELL FUCK WINDOWS 10 AND ITS PRIVACY NIGHTMARE PERIOD.

Which laptop I buy?
How well does heavy software run in a Windows virtual machine (on the desktop, not the laptop)?

Comments
  • 2
    For every laptop that you think there will be good reviews there will always be a bunch of people reporting issues. Can't really win man :( all laptops turn to shit after a while depending on many things. I wish you good luck on it.

    For me, i have 1 computer i can't complain, my 2013 macbook pro. still works fast as fuck and has never given me any trouble, like, none at all. But others have a fuckload of issues. Can't win.
  • 4
    I have a lenovo thinkpad, they're built like a tank.

    I did have a Dell XPS 13 at one point and that was a solid laptop. So it kinda just depends on what you buy methinks.
  • 0
    @AleCx04 it doesn't even have an ethernet port. Holy cow if you are even thinking a thing that connect it must be "mind reading" level connectivity if you ain't gonna put an eth0. Imagine how funny was realising having to re-establish internet connectivity after you successfully completed installation of a distro that apparently didn't have suitable drivers. It's even funnier when you know which distro was. The fucking Ubuntu itself.
  • 1
    @starrynights89 I guess so. I'm specifically ranting at their consumer products, especially those sold under 400€.
  • 3
    @keksprache I've never bought a consumer grade laptop that I enjoyed working with. They're always built to a subpar quality level.
  • 0
    @brano88 which takes to the question: which brand served you best? :D
  • 0
    I have a Dell Inspiron 1420 from late 2008; the thing is a tank.

    My advice would be to find out which laptops were know to be good a few years ago, and buy a used one. It's a been a while since CPUs and RAM saw any serious performance upgrades, and HDDs can always be swapped for SSDs.
  • 2
    Get a refurbished business notebook, they're awesome for low prices.

    I got a Dell Latitude E6430 for 200-something € and it runs smooth af for my needs
  • 1
    Dell Xps 13 or 15? Watch some reviews
  • 0
    Any business grade laptop is great. A bought a used dell laptop for small change and its built like a tank and surpasses the performance of my asus laptop with significantly higher specs which has randomly died on me the other day (while also being like 2 years newer...)
Add Comment