how I buy laptops
Was advising a friend on how to shop for laptops. I buy only high end mac laptops so this won’t be useful if you buy $699 HP/dell/whatevers.
1) try not to buy generation one, but if you must, just buy extended warranty.
2) max out the CPU speed, if they offer several models, because you’ll never be able to upgrade that
3) leave the ram stock. don’t buy the extra ram. You’ll be able to upgrade it from kingston or crucial later for much less
4) leave the hard drive stock. you’ll pay a premium now, but in one year you’ll be able to upgrade beyond the original.
Basically, this way, I get the laptop, use it for a while, then it ’starts to feel slow’. I upgrade to the latest OS, it gets a bit slower. But then - I max out the ram for cheap, and I pop in a huge hard drive - whatever the latest and greatest laptop drive is. Voila, new feeling computer.
