i recently purchased my own laptop specifically for travel and paid utmost attention to dimensions because it had to fit in my backpack which in turn had to fit under airline seat ... i never use a laptop at home - only my desktops
but my parents don't have a desktop and do not take the laptop with them while traveling - they essentially use their laptop as a desktop replacement ...
it just didn't make any sense for me to get anything other than a chonky gaming laptop for an application where it will sit on the desk its whole life and never move ...
i did order a no-frills version that doesn't even have per-key RGB lighting since obviously my parents aren't going to customize RGB profiles LOL ... i also went for the lower end Nvidia GPU since they won't be playing any games ... but the CPU is Core Ultra 9 275 HX ...
my parents should thank NoStrudel for convincing me that you can never have too much CPU power because with broken enough code even what should have been light weight software can completely bog down older CPUs ...
sure if code was good we could all run 20 year old PCs no problem but the trend with modern web apps and pages is absolute resource gluttony ...
my mother has a nasty habit of bringing up issues precisely when i don't have time to deal with them - she ALWAYS does that - it's some kind of a sick fetish
so she brought up the need for a new laptop precisely when i was busy packing ... knowing full well that i have Attention Deficit and will not be able to control myself and will start researching laptops instead of doing what needs to be done ...
but on the upside i did catch a Black Friday sale on this laptop ...
their current laptop actually turned 7 years old today - it is my old Dell Precision Mobile Workstation and it just keeps getting more and more flakey and considering they use it for work they kind of can't afford that flakiness ...
basically their laptop flips a coin when deciding whether to boot or not - it is seemingly random - and as such it can't be fixed because it does actually work 90% of the time but 90% of the time is not enough ...
my delusional mother asked me to buy a laptop for about $300 but insisted that it must be new because it has to have warranty ... well mom, the good news is the laptop i ordered was $500 off for Black Friday but i am afraid Alienware doesn't make $300 laptops ... LOL
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