I just bought this yesterday for my 16 year old son. He is in year 11, doing subjects heavy in maths and science. His old laptop was 8 years old and falling. I had a budget of $1200, reluctantly, as I knew that DDR prices and storage prices had gone through the roof recently. Typically, I have spent $700-800 on laptops for my kids.

I walked into a local retailer and this was presented as a laptop that had been ordered and not collected or paid for. Price was $1,999 firm.

After some negotiation, I walked out with it for $1,500. Way more than I was comfortable spending but it seems to be a good deal, unless I am missing something?

  • carrylex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Okay so not sure why you posted this AFTER buying it and not asking before but here are my 5 cents:

    1500 AUD are roughly $1000. I think this price is overall ok for the specs that you got, however I’m not sure about the specs themselfs.

    Due to current RAM and GPU prices I would have bought a laptop with no dedicated GPU. The integrated GPU is usually enough for watching videos, doing basic work and as long as you don’t play any games (if you do so you shouldn’t buy a laptop in the first place).

    I’m not sure how it is in your case but most laptops I had have extendable/switchable RAM. I would have bought a laptop that has a single 8-16GB RAM stick pre-installed and has one extension slot so that you can upgrade once the RAM prices go down again.

    Also get rid of this preinstalled Windows 11 Home that has likely a ton of bloatware preinstalled. I recommend a full clean Linux or Windows 10/11 Pro installation (btw here’s a possibility how to activate it once installed).