New laptop tips

[KevinM1]

Dell will throw any old shit in there. Poor quality components may be initially cheaper but it still comes at a cost.

Dell has three distinct product lines:

Inspiron: Shit. Cheaply made, shit components, not worth the money. I mean, they even feel cheap to the touch, most notably having flimsy plastic that would make toy manufacturers blush. You're literally pissing your money away if you buy anything Inspiron.

XPS: Decent. Won't fall apart if you look at it wrong. My desktop is an XPS that's 5 or so years old at this point (started as a Windows 8 computer), and is still going strong. I had more money coming in back then, so I intentionally made it future-proof (i7, 32GB RAM, 2TB HDD, GTX 660). Similarly, my current laptop is new, but the quality feels just shy of a Surface. The body is aluminum, so I'm not worried about it cracking/breaking if it's not handled like a Ming Vase.

Alienware: Gaming hardware. Dunno how the quality is since I've never been able to afford one. Used to be the name in gaming when it was an independent company, not sure if it still is.

[John V]

Only issue I had was getting rid of bloatware. I went to do that first, but couldn't find a way. So I did the Windows update, and then it was easy. Everything else is running smoothly. It runs PUBG smoothly at high settings.

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You also get to choose quality components that get ignored by PC makers. They're not going to advertise how good the power supply unit is for example, no one wants to know, so they chuck in the cheapest they can get away with. But this means more heat, more noise from cooling it, far less spare power capacity for upgrading at a later date and a larger electricity bill. I have my computers processing at 100% day in day out so I make sure to spend far more money on a quality PSU. And if it does blow up a good quality PSU won't take out all your other components. Same goes for fans, thermal paste, cabling, case etc. I always intend having a computer running for at least 10 years so I don't want the motherboard to blow so I choose the makes the advertise quality components.

Dell will throw any old shit in there. Poor quality components may be initially cheaper but it still comes at a cost.

Well, yeah, if you spend another grand you can get something quieter and cooler. For my uses that's not worth it.