Because there is no point for him or me either to buy a desktop when for the past 2 years we will be 8 months a year at a boarding school.
Re: Alienware
Because there is no point for him or me either to buy a desktop when for the past 2 years we will be 8 months a year at a boarding school.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
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I still don't understand. Do you carry your machine around daily? Picking up a machine and moving it once every 8 months is nothing. The only people I have ever seen with a real need for a laptop are business(wo)men who travel daily or near-daily.
Guess I'll just be simple and blunt. It sounds somewhat like this is just a simple matter of someone wanting a laptop. That's great, as long as they understand what that entails. First, it's going to be much more expensive. Second, it's not going to be nearly as good as a desktop for gaming, and it will get obsolete FAST. This is experience talking, I went through this phase when I graduated college and bought a 3k laptop that had a real usable lifetime of about 6 months. Third, laptops tend to grow legs, and the average cable lock will last approx. 15-30 seconds against a determined thief. Again this is firsthand experience as a security professional who attended a physical security course, they gave us wirecutters and showed us how quickly we could hack through even the thicker cables, it was stunning.
It sounds like the person in question would be far better off with a desktop, which would be more practical, in line with their wants and needs, and not as expensive for better hardware. Yeah there may be other circumstances that haven't been mentioned, but at this stage this is what it sounds like.
Just my $0.02.
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Re: Alienware
Yes, he wants to carry it around. I told him its useless to carry a 7kg monster but he wont understand. Its his point anyways.
The thing is, we cant carry a desktop with us too school. It's impossible to carry a desktop, keyboard and monitor at the same, ESPECIALLY if you are one of those maniacs with a 3 way SLI, 8GB of RAM and Extreme Quad Core complete with custom case and liquid cooling. That thing is bigger than your desk! (just a figure of speech)
That's why he wants a laptop. He wants it to game seriously and also to work on it.
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
Proud
Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
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